HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services)
The US Department of Health and Human Services provides data APIs for health programs, public health datasets, grants data, and interoperability standards for health information. HHS operates a broad ecosystem of APIs spanning FDA drug and device data, grants opportunity search, health IT open data, HRSA health center locators, and public health content syndication through its agencies including FDA, HRSA, ONC, and ODPHP.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) the way a machine reads it — 40 machine-readable artifacts across 21 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 — HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) scores 43.5/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 24/100 (agent aware). 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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services)
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services). 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 21
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.
openFDA API
OpenFDA provides RESTful APIs and raw download access to high-value FDA public datasets including drug adverse events, drug labels, drug recalls, medical device 510(k) clearance...
MyHealthfinder API
The MyHealthfinder API (Version 4) allows developers to add evidence-based, plain language health content to their websites and applications. Content is available in English and...
ONC Health IT Open Data API
The ONC Health IT Open Data API provides access to open datasets published by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Supports filtering by sta...
HRSA Health Center Data Web Service
The HRSA Health Center Data Web Service allows querying for federally qualified health centers by state, county, or ZIP code. A separate service provides access to Ryan White HI...
HealthData.gov Catalog API
The HealthData.gov Catalog API uses CKAN and provides machine-readable access to the HHS health data catalog. Developers can find newly added datasets, search the catalog, downl...
HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) Agency v1 API
The Agency v1 API from HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) — 1 operation(s) for agency v1.
HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) Application Alpha API
The Application Alpha API from HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) — 11 operation(s) for application alpha.
HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) Award Recommendation Alpha API
The Award Recommendation Alpha API from HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) — 11 operation(s) for award recommendation alpha.
HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) CommonGrants Protocol API
CommonGrants-compliant API routes for searching opportunities to promote interoperability across grant systems. Learn more by visiting CommonGrants.org
HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) Competition Alpha API
The Competition Alpha API from HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) — 3 operation(s) for competition alpha.
HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) Extract v1 API
The Extract v1 API from HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) — 1 operation(s) for extract v1.
HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) File v1 API
The File v1 API from HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) — 1 operation(s) for file v1.
HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) Form Alpha API
The Form Alpha API from HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) — 2 operation(s) for form alpha.
HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) Health API
The Health API from HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) — 1 operation(s) for health.
HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) Internal v1 - Admin Only API
The Internal v1 - Admin Only API from HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) — 1 operation(s) for internal v1 - admin only.
HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) LOCAL ONLY API
The LOCAL ONLY API from HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) — 1 operation(s) for local only.
HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) Opportunity v1 API
The Opportunity v1 API from HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) — 4 operation(s) for opportunity v1.
HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) Opportunity v1 - for Grantors API
The Opportunity v1 - for Grantors API from HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) — 8 operation(s) for opportunity v1 - for grantors.
HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) Organization v1 API
The Organization v1 API from HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) — 10 operation(s) for organization v1.
HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) User v1 - Internal Only API
The User v1 - Internal Only API from HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) — 23 operation(s) for user v1 - internal only.
HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) Workflow API
The Workflow API from HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) — 4 operation(s) for workflow.
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Pricing Plans 2
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.
Openfda
PLANSSimpler Grants
PLANSRate Limits 2
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.
Openfda
RATE LIMITSSimpler Grants
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
Overview
FINOPSSpectral Rules 1
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.
JSON Schema 6
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.
AgencyV1Schema
JSON SCHEMAErrorResponseSchema
JSON SCHEMAHealthcheckResponseSchema
JSON SCHEMAOpportunitySearchResponseV1Schema
JSON SCHEMAOpportunityV1Schema
JSON SCHEMAPaginationInfoSchema
JSON SCHEMAExamples 6
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.
Security Posture 1
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) — 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.
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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