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Medibank

Medibank Private Limited (ASX: MPL) is Australia's largest private health insurer, headquartered in Melbourne and operating two retail brands, Medibank and ahm, alongside the Amplar Health services arm. Founded in 1976 as a government-owned fund and privatised through an ASX listing in 2014, it underwrites hospital, extras and ambulance cover for Australian residents, Overseas Student Health Cover and Overseas Visitors Health Cover, and distributes travel, pet, life, income protection and accident cover (Recover Boost) alongside its core private health insurance book. Its home market is Australia, where private health insurance is a separately regulated market supervised by APRA and the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman, and where the Consumer Data Right that opened banking and energy was designated for general insurance and then deferred — so there is no open insurance obligation and no CDR seam reaching a health fund like Medibank. Medibank's API posture is fully partner-gated and there is no public API. No developer portal exists on any conventional host: developer, developers, docs and apis subdomains of medibank.com.au do not resolve in DNS, api.medibank.com.au resolves but does not accept public TCP connections on port 443, and /developers, /api, /developer, /partners and /integrations all return HTTP 404 on www.medibank.com.au, whose 1,364-URL sitemap contains no developer or API page at all. The only first-party integration surfaces are login walls and email-gated onboarding: providers.medibank.com.au is a React single-page "Medibank - Provider Self Service" application (Provider Central, ESP) that returns its shell for every path, portal.medibank.com.au is a Palo Alto GlobalProtect corporate VPN, and the HCP Portal for Hospital Casemix Protocol submissions is granted only by emailing Medibank's HCP team. The real machine-to-machine claiming rails are third-party and government-operated rather than Medibank-published: ECLIPSE, the Services Australia in-patient online claiming system, carries hospital claims and 25 percent Fund Gap medical claims under claim type "MB" and serves Online Eligibility Check with Presenting Illness codes, with ECFWeb and THELMA as alternative eligibility channels and HICAPS and iSOFT terminals handling ancillary claiming. No ACORD reference of any kind appears on Medibank's public estate, which is the expected result — Australian private health insurance runs on ECLIPSE, HCP and the MBS rather than on ACORD AL3 or ACORD XML. No OpenAPI or Swagger definition, no Postman collection, no GraphQL or gRPC surface, no webhook or event catalog, and no documented authentication scheme could be confirmed anywhere on Medibank's public web estate as of 2026-07-25, and none of the four insurance API verbs — quote, bind, issue or FNOL — is exposed to unauthenticated developers.

human only

More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Medibank the way a machine reads it — 1 machine-readable artifact, 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 — Medibank scores 23.6/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 4/100 (human only). 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 — 23.6/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Regulatory · Insurance 6.2 / 15
Agent readiness — 4/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Medibank

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Medibank. 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.

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.

Medibank Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for Medibank — 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.

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

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

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