We offer you the following resources for our API documentation developer-focused resources.

In the Guides section, these resources are available:

  • Quick start
  • Security and authorization to access our APIs
  • API test environment
  • Overview of all our APIs
  • Request and response contents for all the APIs
  • API Examples
  • JSON-to-EDI mapping
  • Predefined fields and values for trying our APIs in sandbox
  • Release notes
  • Error messages
  • FAQs (periodically updated)
  • Troubleshooting

In the API Reference section, these resources are available:

  • Overview of the APIs
  • Downloadable Swagger/OpenAPI spec, such as Eligibility API – application in JSON format that generates our documentation for developers to view and use
  • Resources for API testing/trying
    • Postman collection, such as for Eligibility – for use with the Postman application (not owned by Optum), this collection allows users to call and test our APIs
    • TryIt! interactive interface for real-time API testing, such as for Eligibility API
  • Predefined fields and values for trying our APIs in sandbox