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For Payers & Health Plans

CMS-0057-F is a deadline, not a project.

Four FHIR APIs. One hard date: January 1, 2027. Health1st maps your legacy claims, X12, and clinical data to US Core FHIR with AI — so your compliance program ships in weeks, not quarters.

  • Patient Access · Provider Access · Payer-to-Payer · Prior Auth (PARDD)
  • Built on the mandated stack: FHIR R4.0.1 + US Core STU 3.1.1 + SMART + OIDC
  • AI-drafted mappings from X12 & claims, reviewed by your team
HL7 v2.5.1 · ADT^A01inbound
MSH|^~\&|EPIC|HOSP|H1ST|DST|202601..||ADT^A01|
PID|1||MRN12345^^^HOSP^MR||DOE^JOHN^A||
    19701225|M|||123 MAIN ST^^AUSTIN^TX
PV1|1|I|ICU^101^A|||...admit...
DG1|1|I10|E11.9^Type 2 diabetes mellitus
PIDPatient
PV1Encounter
DG1Condition
AIMapping
Agent
validate · normalize · map
FHIR R4 · Bundleoutbound
{ "resourceType": "Patient",
  "identifier": [{ "value": "MRN12345" }],
  "name": [{ "family": "Doe",
             "given": ["John","A"] }],
  "gender": "male",
  "birthDate": "1970-12-25" }

{ "resourceType": "Condition",
  "code": { "coding": [{
    "system": "…/icd-10-cm",
    "code": "E11.9" }] } }
US CoreR4.0.1validated
An inbound HL7 v2.5.1 ADT^A01 admission message is parsed segment by segment — PID maps to a FHIR Patient, PV1 to an Encounter, and the DG1 diagnosis segment (ICD-10 E11.9, Type 2 diabetes) to a FHIR Condition — by the AI Mapping Agent, validated against US Core and FHIR R4.0.1. The reverse direction (FHIR back to HL7 v2) is also supported.

In short

CMS-0057-F requires impacted payers — roughly 365 Medicare Advantage, Medicaid/CHIP, and FFE QHP organizations — to stand up four FHIR APIs (Patient Access, Provider Access, Payer-to-Payer, and Prior Authorization/PARDD) by January 1, 2027, with operational provisions starting in 2026. As of October 2025, ~43% of payers had not yet begun — and by March 2026 roughly 35% were still a quarter or less into the Patient Access API. Health1st gets you there by using AI to map your legacy claims, X12, and clinical data to US Core FHIR R4.0.1 — the slowest part of the project, compressed from months into weeks.
Jan 1, 2027
API compliance deadline
operational provisions begin 2026
4
mandated FHIR APIs
Patient · Provider · P2P · PARDD
~365
impacted payer orgs
MA · Medicaid/CHIP · FFE QHP
~43%
of payers not started
WEDI survey, Oct 2025
The pressure you're under

Compliance-driven, deadline-compressed, and expensive to get wrong

You know the mandate. The hard part is turning years of legacy data into conformant FHIR before the clock runs out — while procurement, security review, and an audit trail all sit on the critical path.

Four FHIR APIs, one hard deadline

CMS-0057-F requires Patient Access, Provider Access, Payer-to-Payer, and Prior Authorization (PARDD) APIs live by January 1, 2027 — on a mandated stack you may not run today.

Legacy claims & X12 don't speak FHIR

Your data lives in X12 837/835/278, proprietary claims warehouses, and clinical feeds. Converting all of it to US Core FHIR R4 by hand is a multi-quarter mapping project.

Prior auth is a workflow, not a form

PARDD demands automated coverage discovery, documentation requirements, and a decision loop — with 7-day standard / 72-hour expedited timeframes and public PA metrics reporting.

Penalty and reputational exposure

Missing 2027 is not just a technical slip. It is audit exposure, attestation risk, and a public readiness gap your members, providers, and regulators can see.

The readiness path

From legacy estate to four conformant APIs

A repeatable path that puts AI on the mapping bottleneck and keeps your team in control of every clinical and claims field that ships.

  1. 1

    Inventory & gap assessment

    We map your current estate — X12 feeds, claims warehouse, clinical data, existing member APIs — against the CMS-0057-F stack (FHIR R4.0.1, US Core STU 3.1.1, SMART, Bulk Data, OIDC, USCDI) and flag every gap.

  2. 2

    AI-drafted mappings to US Core

    The Mapping Agent proposes field- and segment-level mappings from your internal models and X12 to US Core FHIR profiles, with plain-English rationale and confidence scores your team reviews.

  3. 3

    Stand up the four APIs

    Patient Access, Provider Access, Payer-to-Payer, and Prior Authorization (PARDD) — served on SMART App Launch + OIDC, with Bulk Data (Flat FHIR) for population-scale exchange.

  4. 4

    Validate, attest & operate

    Conformance-test against US Core and the Da Vinci PARDD implementation guides, capture audit trails, and monitor in production so you stay compliant after go-live — not just at go-live.

What you get

Outcomes your board and your auditors both accept

Not a pile of connectors — a defensible compliance program that holds up after go-live.

Four conformant APIs, on time

Patient Access, Provider Access, Payer-to-Payer, and PARDD live on the mandated stack before January 1, 2027 — validated against US Core and Da Vinci, not just “stood up.”

The mapping bottleneck, in weeks

AI drafts your X12-and-claims-to-US-Core mappings so the slowest, most expensive part of the program stops being measured in quarters.

Audit-ready from day one

Versioned, explainable mappings and immutable audit trails give compliance the evidence to defend every attestation — long after go-live.

The four mandated APIs

Everything CMS-0057-F requires, on the stack it requires

FHIR R4.0.1 · US Core STU 3.1.1 · SMART App Launch 1.0.0 · Bulk Data STU 1 · OpenID Connect 1.0 · USCDI.

Patient Access API (expanded)

Members retrieve claims, encounters, clinical data, and — new under CMS-0057-F — prior authorization status via third-party apps over SMART on FHIR.

Provider Access API

In-network providers pull patient claims and clinical data (USCDI) for treatment, with attribution and opt-out handling built into the exchange.

Payer-to-Payer API

When a member moves plans, their claims and clinical history follow — bulk FHIR exchange between prior and current payer, mapped and de-duplicated automatically.

Prior Authorization API (PARDD)

Coverage Requirements Discovery, Documentation Templates & Rules, and Prior Authorization Support — the Da Vinci PARDD stack that automates the auth decision loop.

Prior Authorization is the hardest of the four. See how Health1st automates the Da Vinci PARDD decision loop end-to-end.

Who this is for

Built for the people who own the mandate

CMS-0057-F lands on a specific set of desks. Health1st gives each of them what they need to say yes — and to defend the decision in an audit.

VP of Interoperability / Digital

A credible plan to reach four conformant APIs before 2027 without hiring an army of FHIR consultants.

Chief Compliance / Regulatory Officer

Auditability and conformance evidence — versioned mappings, audit trails, and honest security posture — to defend attestation.

Enterprise Architect / Head of Data

Deployment control (cloud or VPC), clean mapping of X12 and claims to US Core, and no lock-in to a pre-connected network.

Security & Compliance

Enterprise-grade trust, stated honestly

Protecting PHI is non-negotiable. Here's exactly where our certifications stand — no overclaiming.

HIPAAActive

Compliant · BAAs available

SOC 2 Type IIIn Progress

Audit in progress

HITRUST CSFOn Roadmap

On roadmap

HL7 · FHIRCore

Native, by design

AWS HIPAA-eligible infrastructure · Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) · Encryption in transit & at rest · See our security details →

Frequently asked questions

Get your four FHIR APIs live before January 2027.

Bring your own X12 and claims samples. We'll show a live mapping to US Core FHIR on your real message types.