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Prior Authorization

Score 18.2 / 100 35 providers +3 via APIs 13 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (35)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 5 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 5 Limited public surface area
Emerging 14 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 6 Almost no public developer surface

APIs with this tag (13)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 7 Limited public surface area
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented

Companies reaching this through an API (3)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Prior Authorization” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

1upHealth UnitedHealthcare Waystar

Score breakdown

Frequency
46.0
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.9
spread across providers
Quality lift
32.5
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Where this tag sits

Healthcare broader

Related tags

Revenue Cycle Management 14 co-occurrences Clearinghouse 6 co-occurrences Eligibility 11 co-occurrences Patient Access 9 co-occurrences Payers 7 co-occurrences Revenue Cycle 5 co-occurrences Pharmacy 8 co-occurrences SMART on FHIR 5 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Api tag13
Provider tag35
Openapi tag1
Openapi op tag1

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 34 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Prior Authorization, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
34
of 35 in the catalog
Mean Kin Score
27.3
+4.4 vs catalog 22.9
Mean Agent Readiness
13.1
+1.2 vs catalog 11.9
Spread
0–68.9
median 20.5 · σ 19.2
How the 34 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 4Developing 5Thin 5Emerging 14Minimal 5
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Access Clarity 33.9 26.5 +7.4 34
Contract Governance 12.1 6.3 +5.8 34
Developer Ergonomics 27.7 23.2 +4.5 34
Operational Transparency 17.2 13.7 +3.5 34
Discoverability 60.3 58.1 +2.2 34
Contract Quality 16.4 17.6 -1.2 34

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 15% 14% +1
MCP server (first-party) 12% 12% 0
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 15% 11% +4
Security 100% 98% +2
Arazzo workflows 6% 2% +4
Governance rules 6% 14% -8

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Availity 68.9
  2. 2 Candid Health 65.8
  3. 3 DoseSpot 59.8
  4. 4 Optum 56.4
  5. 5 Truepill 54.9
  6. 6 Silna 52.2
  7. 7 Aetna 45.6
  8. 8 SuperDial 44.4
  9. 9 Develop Health 42.1
  10. 10 Element5 40.4
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Aetna 42.3
  2. 2 SuperDial 42.1
  3. 3 Optum 38.9
  4. 4 Candid Health 36.2
  5. 5 Silna 36.2
  6. 6 Truepill 35
  7. 7 Develop Health 35
  8. 8 Availity 31.5
  9. 9 Element5 30.8
  10. 10 DoseSpot 29.6
All 35 members of this roster resolve to a provider in the catalog; 34 carry a score (97%). The figures above describe the scored members only.
Coverage caveat. 30 of 34 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 5 October 2026, across 29093 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

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Tools for tags

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  • find_tagsBrowse and filter every tag in the catalog.
  • get_cohortThis tag as a scored cohort — every provider carrying it, with scores.
  • cohort_statsPRO — the distribution across this tag: mean, median, band split, adoption rates.
  • cohort_rankingsPRO — the leaderboard, on composite AND agent-readiness axes.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
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