Public surface / Payer Provider Directory APIs

Sharp Health Plan Provider Directory API

This endpoint answers publicly with substantial gaps.

Current grade D

Reachability100

Capability transparency80

Interop readiness0

Observed surface

Base URL: https://shp-apis.sharphealthplan.com/shpconformance/api
Category: Payer Provider Directory APIs
Availability: answered 8 of 8 checks so far; availability is reported once 14 observations exist
Vantage agreement: reachable from all 3 vantages, which are 3 hosts on one network (github-actions): one network's view sampled 3 times, not 3 independent networks

Interpretation

A grade describes two public discovery documents at one point in time. It does not inspect patient data, authenticated behavior, or clinical quality.

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Findings

Reachability100

Pass: /metadata answers with HTTP 2xx over HTTPS: reachable from all 3 vantages, which are 3 hosts on one network (github-actions): one network's view sampled 3 times, not 3 independent networksR1 Spec ↗
Pass: /metadata responded in 188 ms (median across 3 reachable vantages on one network)R2 Spec ↗

Capability transparency80

Pass: fhirVersion declared: '4.0.1' (expected 4.x)T1 Spec ↗
Needs attention: software name/version missingT2 Spec ↗
Pass: 7 resource types declaredT3 Spec ↗
Pass: 7/7 declared resources document their interactionsT4 Spec ↗

Interop readiness0

Needs attention: 8 profile canonical(s) declared in rest.resource.profile, rest.resource.supportedProfile, none of them US Core, CARIN, or Da Vinci; also checked instantiates, imports, meta.profileI1 Spec ↗
Note: informational: title names US Core, CARIN, or Da Vinci in prose, but no profile canonical is declared in any conformance element. Prose is not a conformance claim and scores nothing either way; adding rest.resource.supportedProfile entries would make the claim machine-readableI4 Spec ↗
Note: SMART discovery not applicable: a Provider Directory API is public by designI2 Spec ↗
Note: OAuth security not applicable: a Provider Directory API is public by designI3 Spec ↗

Observed since 2026-08-08; no changes to declared capability recorded.

Registry provenance

How this entry was verified

live CapabilityStatement fetch (fhirVersion 4.0.1, 7 Plan-Net resource types); publisher field reads 'Sharp Health Plan', title 'Da Vinci Payer Data exchange Plan Network Reference Implementation'. Sharp's portal documents this base URL and states the directory 'does not require authorization to access the data on the server'. Its implementation.url advertises a different path (/providerdirectory/api) which answers 401, so this entry records the documented base that answers rather than the one the document names (recorded 2026-08-07)

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