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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.

2025-10-24•Team 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.

2025-10-23•Team 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.

2025-10-22•Team 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.

2025-10-21•Team 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.

2025-10-20•Team 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.

2025-09-29•Joshua 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.

2025-09-10•Joshua 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.

2025-07-30•Team 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.

2025-07-17•Joshua 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.

2025-07-07•Angela 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

2025-07-01•Angela 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.

2025-06-14•Andrew 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.

2025-05-30•Team 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.

2025-05-19•Angela 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.

2025-05-14•Angela 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.

2025-05-05•Joshua 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.

2025-04-21•Joshua 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.

2025-04-15•Angela 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

2025-04-07•Flexpa 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

2025-03-31•Joshua 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.

2025-03-24•Joshua 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.

2025-03-17•Joshua 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.

2025-03-10•Claudio 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.

2025-03-03•Joshua Kelly
Reimaging Healthcare Claim Substantiation

Reimaging Healthcare Claim Substantiation

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

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

Retrieving Coverage, Benefits, and Plan Information

An overview for accessing health plan benefits and coverage information.

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

Healthcare Providers for developers

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

2025-02-10•Dylan 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.

2025-02-03•Claudio 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.

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

Launching Flexpa's Medplum Integration

Flexpa Announces Integration with Medplum: Simplifying Healthcare Data Management

2025-01-20•Joshua 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

2025-01-13•Larry 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.

2025-01-06•Angela 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.

2024-12-30•Joshua 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.

2024-12-23•Joshua 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.

2024-12-16•Joshua 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.

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

Standardizing Health Insurance Payment Codes

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

2024-12-02•Dylan 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.

2024-11-25•Joshua 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.

2024-11-18•Angela 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.

2024-11-14•Flexpa Team

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