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Availity is a healthcare information network and clearinghouse providing REST APIs for real-time HIPAA EDI transactions. The platform processes over 11 billion annual healthcare transactions connecting providers, health plans, and vendors nationwide. Create your application and subscribe to a plan to make use of Availity APIs for eligibility verification, claims management, prior authorization, and patient cost estimation.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles availity the way a machine reads it — 164 machine-readable artifacts across 12 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — availity scores 51.8/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 51.8/100 · developing
Contract Quality 19.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.6 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile availity

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for availity. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 12

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Availity Healthcare HIPAA Transactions API

The Availity Healthcare HIPAA Transactions API provides a unified interface for standard HIPAA EDI transactions. REST APIs enable healthcare providers and vendors to submit and ...

Availity Patient Cost Estimator API

The Availity Patient Cost Estimator API enables healthcare providers and institutions to estimate service costs before delivery for both institutional and professional services....

Availity Eligibility & Benefits Value-Add APIs

The Availity Eligibility & Benefits Value-Add APIs provide supplementary data during eligibility transactions. The Care Reminders API retrieves real-time care gap information fr...

Availity Payer List API

The Availity Payer List API (v1.0.4) allows healthcare organizations to query available payers and the transactions they support. Returns payer identifiers, names, and supported...

Availity Configurations API

The Availity Configurations API (v1.0.0) provides provider details and payer-specific validation requirements. Returns configuration rules for enhanced claim status, prior autho...

availity Auth Attachments API

Attach documentation to authorization requests

availity Claim Attachments API

Electronic claim attachment submission and retrieval

availity Claim Status API

Claim status inquiries and tracking

availity Eligibility API

Real-time eligibility and benefits verification

availity Enhanced Claim Status API

Enhanced claim status with value-add data

availity Is Auth Required API

Check if authorization is required before submission

availity Service Reviews API

Prior authorization and service review requests

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Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Arazzo Workflows 4

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Availity Claim Attachment (X12 275)

Submit an X12 275 claim attachment, then poll for its processing status until the payer accepts it.

ARAZZO

Availity Claim Status Inquiry (X12 276/277)

Submit an X12 276 claim status request, then poll for the X12 277 claim status response until the payer finalizes it.

ARAZZO

Availity Eligibility and Benefits (X12 270/271)

Locate a payer that supports the 270 transaction, submit an X12 270 eligibility request, then retrieve the resulting 271 benefit response.

ARAZZO

Availity Prior Authorization (X12 278)

Determine whether authorization is required, create the X12 278 service review, attach supporting clinical documentation, then read back the authorization decision.

ARAZZO

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Availity Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 5

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Availity Availity Context

2 classes · 32 properties

JSON-LD

Availity Claim Context

9 classes · 45 properties

JSON-LD

Availity Context

0 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Availity Eligibility Context

15 classes · 58 properties

JSON-LD

Availity Service Context

8 classes · 30 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

availity API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

availity API Rules

10 rules · 1 errors · 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 63

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

AsyncJobResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AttachmentRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AttachmentStatusResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Benefit

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ClaimAttachmentRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ClaimAttachmentResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ClaimStatusList

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ClaimStatusRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ClaimStatusResponse

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Coverage

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Dependent

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DetailSearchRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Availity Eligibility Response

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EligibilityError

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EligibilityList

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EligibilityRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EligibilityResponse

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Error

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IsAuthRequiredRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IsAuthRequiredResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Payer

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PayerInfo

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PayerList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlanInformation

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Provider

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchBy276Request

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceReviewList

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceReviewRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceReviewResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Subscriber

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SubscriberInfo

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SummarySearchRequest

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ClaimAttachmentRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ClaimAttachmentResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AsyncJobResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ClaimStatusList

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ClaimStatusRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ClaimStatusResponse

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DetailSearchRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchBy276Request

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SummarySearchRequest

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Benefit

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Coverage

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Dependent

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EligibilityError

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EligibilityList

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EligibilityRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EligibilityResponse

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PayerInfo

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PayerList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Payer

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlanInformation

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Provider

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SubscriberInfo

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Subscriber

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AsyncJobResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AttachmentRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AttachmentStatusResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IsAuthRequiredRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IsAuthRequiredResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceReviewList

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceReviewRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceReviewResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 33

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Availity Eligibility Structure

8 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Availity Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Claim Status Async Job Response Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Claim Status Claim Status List Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Eligibility Benefit Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Eligibility Coverage Structure

8 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Eligibility Dependent Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Eligibility Eligibility Error Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Eligibility Eligibility List Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Eligibility Eligibility Request Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Eligibility Eligibility Response Structure

8 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Eligibility Payer Info Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Eligibility Payer List Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Eligibility Payer Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Eligibility Plan Information Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Eligibility Provider Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Eligibility Subscriber Info Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Eligibility Subscriber Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 35

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Eligibility Payer Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Availity Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Availity Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Availity Scopes

1 scope · clientCredentials

1 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Availity Agentic Access

19 operations · 9 acting

19 operations · 9 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for availity — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 1

The organization behind the API

← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/availity · machine-readable index on apis.io