CMS Open Payments · Authentication Profile

Open Payments Authentication

Authentication

CMS Open Payments secures its APIs with none across 1 declared security scheme, as derived from its OpenAPI definitions.

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Methods: none Schemes: 1 OAuth flows: API key in:

Security Schemes

none none

Source

Authentication Profile

Raw ↑ 
generated: '2026-07-11'
method: manual
source: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/about/api
summary:
  types:
  - none
schemes:
- name: none
  type: none
  description: >-
    All public read access to the CMS Open Payments data API is open and requires
    no authentication - no API key, no token, no account. The metastore catalog,
    search, datastore query, SQL, and download endpoints are all reachable
    anonymously over HTTPS. This was confirmed live against the API on the review
    date.
  sources:
  - https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/about/api
notes: >-
  The underlying DKAN platform exposes write and content-moderation endpoints that
  require HTTP Basic Authentication, but those are reserved for CMS data
  publishers and are not part of the public consumer surface documented here.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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