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The Philosophy: Transforming Healthcare Data Across Every Use Case

The Philosophy: Transforming Healthcare Data Across Every Use Case

Access isn't enough. Data must be transformed to create value. Explore how Flexpa Flux powers legal tech, care navigation, pharmacy, AI, wearables, and more.

2026-04-24Team Flexpa
CCDA to FHIR: Making TEFCA Clinical Documents Actually Usable

CCDA to FHIR: Making TEFCA Clinical Documents Actually Usable

Automatically transform C-CDA XML documents from 72,000+ TEFCA facilities into structured FHIR resources. No XML parsing required. Get medications, allergies, labs, and procedures instantly queryable.

2026-04-23Team Flexpa
Claims to Clinical: Unlocking Your Healthcare Timeline

Claims to Clinical: Unlocking Your Healthcare Timeline

Generate structured FHIR Encounter and Procedure resources from insurance claims automatically. Transform EOB claims data into queryable care timelines and utilization patterns.

2026-04-22Team Flexpa
Medical Coding 101, Automated: CCIR/CCSR Classification for Conditions

Medical Coding 101, Automated: CCIR/CCSR Classification for Conditions

Automatically classify conditions as chronic or acute, and group them by body system. No medical coding expertise required. CCIR/CCSR enrichment makes ICD-10 codes understandable.

2026-04-21Team Flexpa
NPI Expansion 2.0: Putting Names and Faces to Provider Data

NPI Expansion 2.0: Putting Names and Faces to Provider Data

Transform meaningless NPI numbers into complete provider profiles with names, specialties, addresses, and contact details.

2026-04-20Team Flexpa
Flexpa Reaches Production as Kill the Clipboard Early Adopter

Flexpa Reaches Production as Kill the Clipboard Early Adopter

Flexpa has reached production as one of the first wave of adopters for CMS Aligned Networks, fulfilling its pledge for the Kill the Clipboard initiative.

2026-04-09Team Flexpa
Flexpa Among First Wave of Blue Button V3 Integrated Applications

Flexpa Among First Wave of Blue Button V3 Integrated Applications

Flexpa is among the first wave of integrated applications for Blue Button V3, introducing CMS Aligned Network connectivity for Medicare beneficiaries.

2026-04-09Team Flexpa
EOBs Make Better HSA Records

EOBs Make Better HSA Records

How IRC §6001, Notice 2004-50, and payer claims data fit together for HSA substantiation.

2026-03-24Tom Hamilton
My health data across two APIs

My health data across two APIs

A personal look at retrieving my own health data via two different API-driven paths, comparing the experience and the data received.

2026-01-02Angela Liu
Nov 2025 State of The Payer Patient Access API Report

Nov 2025 State of The Payer Patient Access API Report

The State of the Payer Patient Access API Report is a scorecard for payers, vendors, and developers to understand the CMS-9115-F landscape.

2025-11-24Hannah Trub & Angela Liu
How We Used SQL on FHIR to Shrink LLM Context by 92%

How We Used SQL on FHIR to Shrink LLM Context by 92%

How we leveraged SQL on FHIR to dramatically reduce token usage in Flexpal, our smart health agent, while maintaining rich clinical context and simplifying our tooling architecture.

2025-11-03Larry Ditton
Launch Week Recap

Launch Week Recap

Five days of major announcements bringing AI-powered health records, nationwide clinical access, and a reimagined consent experience to healthcare data interoperability.

2025-10-27Team Flexpa
Open-Sourcing Our Claims Reference Guides

Open-Sourcing Our Claims Reference Guides

Making public the reference documentation and claims data guides we built internally to understand payer data, now freely available to everyone working with CARIN BB EOBs.

2025-10-24Team Flexpa
SMART Health Links API: Kill the Clipboard

SMART Health Links API: Kill the Clipboard

Production-ready API for secure, encrypted health data QR codes. Share records at the point of care—no portals, no clipboards.

2025-10-23Team Flexpa
Flexpa Consent 2.0

Flexpa Consent 2.0

Flexpa Link is now Flexpa Consent. With a fully revamped user experience, it services our new 3-in-1 Network of Patient Access, supports IAL2/AAL2 authentication, and a newly launched Consent FHIR API.

2025-10-22Team Flexpa
Flexpa is Now a TEFCA IAS Provider

Flexpa is Now a TEFCA IAS Provider

Announcing 4x partnerships with QHINs and CSPs including Clear, IDme, Kno2, and CommonWell, simplifying TEFCA IAS down to a FHIR interface.

2025-10-21Team Flexpa
Meet Flexpal: Patient Agent

Meet Flexpal: Patient Agent

A smart health agent that helps you download your health records and answer your questions about them. Ask about costs, conditions, or lab results—chat with your real health records.

2025-10-20Team Flexpa
Open Sourcing Payer Consumer Data

Open Sourcing Payer Consumer Data

HealthLX and Flexpa discuss their recent open source releases enabling vendor neutral standards-aligned translation of healthcare data into FHIR in the payer consumer data space.

2025-09-29Joshua Kelly
How to Use SMART Health Links to Return Visit Records to Patients

How to Use SMART Health Links to Return Visit Records to Patients

A proposal for using QR codes to give after-visit summaries, fulfilling the Kill the Clipboard pledge to empower patients with their health records.

2025-09-10Joshua Kelly
Flexpa Selected as CMS-Aligned Network Early Adopter

Flexpa Selected as CMS-Aligned Network Early Adopter

We're on board to "Kill the Clipboard" and help transform healthcare for every single American by December 31, 2025.

2025-07-30Team Flexpa
FHIR at Scale: 2025's Real-World Lessons from the Largest Third-Party Network

FHIR at Scale: 2025's Real-World Lessons from the Largest Third-Party Network

Real-world insights from connecting to 300+ FHIR endpoints: what's working, what isn't, and how to bridge the gap between promise and reality.

2025-07-17Joshua Kelly
15 Questions Claims Data Answers for the Future Patient Experience

15 Questions Claims Data Answers for the Future Patient Experience

From HSA reimbursement to care coordination, discover the specific questions that claims data answers, and doesn't answer, for a data-driven patient experience.

2025-07-07Angela Liu
Digital by Default - 85% of Americans Have Online Health Insurance Accounts

Digital by Default - 85% of Americans Have Online Health Insurance Accounts

What 5,602 Americans told Flexpa—and why it challenges the myth of online logins

2025-07-01Angela Liu
Flexpa's response to CMS-0042-NC

Flexpa's response to CMS-0042-NC

Flexpa's response to CMS-0042-NC on healthcare interoperability, covering Blue Button 2.0 enhancements, USCDI gaps, digital identity, and network infrastructure.

2025-06-14Andrew Arruda and Angela Liu
Benchmarking LLMs on FHIR

Benchmarking LLMs on FHIR

Flexpa announces the industry's first comprehensive open-source benchmark for evaluating Large Language Models on FHIR-specific healthcare tasks.

2025-05-30Team Flexpa
May 2025 State of The Payer Patient Access API Report

May 2025 State of The Payer Patient Access API Report

The State of the Payer Patient Access API Report is a scorecard for payers, vendors, and developers to understand the CMS-9115 landscape.

2025-05-19Angela Liu
Payers, You Spent Resources Building the Patient Access API. What Was It For?

Payers, You Spent Resources Building the Patient Access API. What Was It For?

CMS-9115-F required payers to stand up Patient Access APIs, and now you're asking what business and member value that new FHIR infrastructure can unlock. Drawing on a chat with Chris Aguirre at Chinese Community Health Plan, Flexpa answers three pressing questions payers have about turning a compliance checkbox into strategic advantage.

2025-05-14Angela Liu
FHIR Linting: Automating Validation Fixes

FHIR Linting: Automating Validation Fixes

Applying software development best practices to healthcare data cleanup - how Flexpa automates data quality at scale.

2025-05-05Joshua Kelly
Scaling FHIR Data Processing with Promise Pools and Redis

Scaling FHIR Data Processing with Promise Pools and Redis

How Flexpa built a scalable system to process healthcare data from multiple providers using Promise Pools for controlled concurrency and Redis for distributed job processing.

2025-04-21Joshua Kelly
The Highway from CMS 9115F to CMS 0057

The Highway from CMS 9115F to CMS 0057

A comprehensive guide to how payers can leverage their existing CMS 9115F infrastructure to efficiently implement the upcoming CMS 0057 requirements for interoperability and prior authorization.

2025-04-15Angela Liu
Flexpa Adds VA Connectivity to our Network

Flexpa Adds VA Connectivity to our Network

Flexpa is now connected to the Department of Veterans Affairs, serving 9.1 million veterans through secure, patient-authorized access to claims records

2025-04-07Flexpa Team
Launching NPI Enrichment and Provider Directory

Launching NPI Enrichment and Provider Directory

Announcing two powerful new features - automatic NPI enrichment for claims data and a comprehensive Provider Directory API powered by NPPES data

2025-03-31Joshua Kelly
Understanding Flexpa's FHIR Transforms - Enhancing Healthcare Data Interoperability

Understanding Flexpa's FHIR Transforms - Enhancing Healthcare Data Interoperability

Dive into how Flexpa's transform pipeline standardizes healthcare data from diverse payer sources, ensuring consistent, high-quality FHIR resources for developers.

2025-03-24Joshua Kelly
Introducing Application Access Tokens: Server-to-Server Authentication for the Flexpa FHIR API

Introducing Application Access Tokens: Server-to-Server Authentication for the Flexpa FHIR API

Flexpa launches Application Access Tokens, providing server-to-server authentication for the FHIR API.

2025-03-17Joshua Kelly
Healthcare Math 101 - Understanding Your Deductible and OOP Maximum

Healthcare Math 101 - Understanding Your Deductible and OOP Maximum

Understanding healthcare expenses: copays, coinsurance, deductibles, and out-of-pocket maximums.

2025-03-10Claudio Carbajal III
FHIR vs X12 837 - Simplifying Claims Data

FHIR vs X12 837 - Simplifying Claims Data

Explore the key differences between modern FHIR ExplanationOfBenefit and traditional X12 837 claims formats, highlighting how FHIR's developer-friendly approach simplifies healthcare data integration compared to legacy EDI systems.

2025-03-03Joshua Kelly
Reimaging Healthcare Claim Substantiation

Reimaging Healthcare Claim Substantiation

Reimagining what the process looks like for managing the reimbursements for qualified medical expenses.

2025-02-24Claudio Carbajal III
Retrieving Coverage, Benefits, and Plan Information

Retrieving Coverage, Benefits, and Plan Information

An overview for accessing health plan benefits and coverage information.

2025-02-18Claudio Carbajal III
Healthcare Providers for developers

Healthcare Providers for developers

The challenges of referencing providers in FHIR data and how Flexpa solves them.

2025-02-10Dylan Klein
How I Used Flexpa to Recover Over $2,000 in Medical Billing Errors

How I Used Flexpa to Recover Over $2,000 in Medical Billing Errors

How MyFlexpa helped one of our very own reconcilve over $2,000 in medical billing errors.

2025-02-03Claudio Carbajal III
CMS-0057 Payer-to-Payer Connectathon

CMS-0057 Payer-to-Payer Connectathon

Flexpa's thoughts on the CMS-0057 Payer-to-Payer Connectathon and our upcoming webinar on patient consent and payer-to-payer data exchange.

2025-01-27Kyle Tilman
Launching Flexpa's Medplum Integration

Launching Flexpa's Medplum Integration

Flexpa Announces Integration with Medplum: Simplifying Healthcare Data Management

2025-01-20Joshua Kelly
Add Claims Records to Your Application in Minutes with Flexpa

Add Claims Records to Your Application in Minutes with Flexpa

A step-by-step video guide showing how to rapidly integrate claims records into an existing application using Flexpa

2025-01-13Larry Ditton
Launching Flexpa's Endpoint Directory

Launching Flexpa's Endpoint Directory

Introducing Flexpa's Endpoint Directory - a comprehensive, real-time index of Payer Patient Access APIs with detailed implementation status, authorization flows, and FHIR capabilities.

2025-01-06Angela Liu
A Short History of Digital Consent in Healthcare

A Short History of Digital Consent in Healthcare

A short history of the evolution of digital consent in healthcare, from early standards like BPPC to modern initiatives like FAST Consent.

2024-12-30Joshua Kelly
Flexpa: Wrapped - 2024 Year in Review

Flexpa: Wrapped - 2024 Year in Review

An overview of Flexpa's 2024 achievements and improvements. Covers network expansions, consent flows, and record processing enhancements.

2024-12-23Joshua Kelly
Patient Access Records Retrieval at Scale in CMS 9115

Patient Access Records Retrieval at Scale in CMS 9115

What we learned from patient record retrieval at scale across CMS 9115 patient access APIs.

2024-12-16Joshua Kelly
E2E Interoperability Testing with Flexpa for CMS-9115 and CMS-0057

E2E Interoperability Testing with Flexpa for CMS-9115 and CMS-0057

Looking to validate your interoperability implementation? Flexpa, with the largest network of payer FHIR endpoints in the U.S., offers comprehensive testing solutions for CMS-9115 and CMS-0057 compliance across Patient Access, Payer-to-Payer, and Provider Access APIs.

2024-12-09Angela Liu
Standardizing Health Insurance Payment Codes

Standardizing Health Insurance Payment Codes

A technical exploration of how Flexpa standardizes payment calculations across health insurance APIs

2024-12-02Dylan Klein and Kyle Tilman
LLM FHIR Eval Preview

LLM FHIR Eval Preview

An open-source evaluation framework designed to benchmark the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) on FHIR-specific tasks, making research on FHIR and LLM interactions reproducible.

2024-11-25Joshua Kelly
Nov 2024 State of the Payer Patient Access API Report

Nov 2024 State of the Payer Patient Access API Report

The State of the Payer Patient Access API Report is a scorecard for payers, vendors, and developers to understand the CMS-9115 landscape.

2024-11-18Angela Liu
Introducing MyFlexpa - Your Health Insurance History

Introducing MyFlexpa - Your Health Insurance History

MyFlexpa is a free tool that gives patients instant access to their health insurance history and claims records through a simple, secure interface.

2024-11-14Flexpa Team

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