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CMS-0057-F Engineering

CMS-0057-F Compliance. Built.

Four mandated FHIR APIs, on the Da Vinci guides. Your systems stay. Your repository, your cloud. Live before January 1, 2027.

100%CMS-0057-FReadyPrior Authorization APIDa Vinci CRD · DTR · PASPatient Access APICARIN Blue Button · US CoreProvider Access APIBulk FHIR · attributionPayer-to-Payer API$member-match · 5-year history
No rip-and-replace on claims or UM
Da Vinci CRD, DTR, PAS, PDex conformant
Your cloud, your data, your repository

Our Healthcare Clients

Trusted by leading healthcare technology companies and global enterprises to deliver AI-powered solutions that transform patient care.

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Clinic Management Platform for patients and Doctors

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Digital Health Platform for medical professionals

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Patient engagement and communication platform

Medblocks

Clinic Management Platform for patients and Doctors

Bayshore HealthCare

Digital Health Platform for medical professionals

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Escrow Management Platform for Developers and Banks

Truworth Wellness

Corporate Wellness and Health Management Platform

KEM Hospital

Leading Medical Research and Healthcare Institution

Caria

AI-powered personalized guide for menopause support

sayHey

Patient engagement and communication platform

CarePilot

Clinic Management Platform for patients and Doctors

PainPal

Clinic Management Platform for patients and Doctors

ANJANI MASHELKAR FOUNDATION

Digital Health Platform for medical professionals

Foldhealth

Patient engagement and communication platform

Medblocks

Clinic Management Platform for patients and Doctors

Bayshore HealthCare

Digital Health Platform for medical professionals

+STORYMD

Escrow Management Platform for Developers and Banks

Truworth Wellness

Corporate Wellness and Health Management Platform

KEM Hospital

Leading Medical Research and Healthcare Institution

The rule

What CMS-0057-F Actually Requires

Four standardised FHIR APIs, plus operational changes to how prior authorization decisions get made and reported. The rule applies to Medicare Advantage organizations, state Medicaid and CHIP fee-for-service programs, Medicaid and CHIP managed care plans, and QHP issuers on the federally facilitated exchanges.

Prior Authorization API

A FHIR interface where a provider can discover what documentation you require, submit the request, and receive the decision electronically. Built on Da Vinci CRD, DTR and PAS. The X12 278/275 transactions you exchange today stay supported on the back end.

Patient Access API

Expanded to carry prior authorization status alongside claims, encounters and USCDI clinical data — refreshed no later than one business day after the information changes.

Provider Access API

Bulk FHIR access so in-network providers can pull claims, encounter, clinical and prior authorization data for their attributed patients. Requires attribution logic and a working patient opt-out.

Payer-to-Payer API

When a member changes plans, up to five years of claims, clinical and prior authorization history moves across. Requires patient opt-in and member matching against the previous payer.

January 1, 2026 — in effect

72-hour expedited and 7-day standard decisions, drugs excluded. A specific reason on every denial. Patient Access usage metrics to CMS.

March 31, 2026 — in effect

Prior authorization metrics posted publicly, covering CY2025. Annually thereafter.

January 1, 2027 — the API deadline

All four APIs operational. MA and Medicaid/CHIP FFS on the date; managed care and FFE plans on rating or plan years beginning on or after.

Calendar year 2027

MIPS clinicians and hospitals begin attesting to the Electronic Prior Authorization measure.

Source: CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F). Compliance dates vary by plan type — confirm applicability for your organization against the final rule. Read the full rule breakdown →

Where you sit

The Payer Has The Obligation. You May Still Have The Work.

CMS-0057-F names health plans. But an API only works if the systems on both ends of it do. Three very different builds come out of the same rule.

Health Plans And Payers

You carry the obligation. The build is four conformant FHIR APIs sitting on top of claims, UM, eligibility, clinical and provider data that currently live in five different systems.

Scope: source-to-FHIR mapping, Da Vinci profile conformance, consent and opt-out flows, member matching, Inferno and Touchstone testing, and the metrics you're required to report.

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Provider-facing Healthtech Products

Your users are the ones calling those APIs. From January 2027, prior authorization status, payer-held clinical history and five years of prior-plan data become reachable through a standard interface — if your product can consume it.

Scope: multi-payer FHIR client architecture, CRD and DTR handled inside your existing workflow, per-payer variation, and the authorization layer.

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Vendors And SIs Serving Payers

Your payer clients have asked for CMS-0057-F on top of a roadmap that's already full.

Scope: an embedded FHIR pod that builds the API layer inside your product, under your brand, in your repository.

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Architecture

How The CMS-0057-F Layer Gets Built

Your core systems stay exactly where they are. The FHIR layer sits alongside them and reads from them — no migration, no replatform, no freeze on your existing roadmap.

Nirmitee CMS-0057-F reference architectureExisting payer systems feed an ingest and mapping layer that converts X12 278/275, HL7 v2, C-CDA and proprietary formats into FHIR R4. A FHIR core with US Core, CARIN Blue Button and Da Vinci profiles, terminology, identity and consent, and audit logging exposes the four CMS-0057-F APIs.YOUR SYSTEMSINGEST & MAPPINGFHIR COREAPI SURFACESClaims & adjudicationUM and prior authEligibility & enrolmentClinical & provider dataFormulary / PBMNormalisationX12 278 / 275HL7 v2C-CDAFlat file & proprietaryBidirectional mapping→ FHIR R4FHIR R4 storeUS Core · CARIN Blue ButtonDa Vinci profilesTerminologyICD-10 · CPT/HCPCS · RxNorm · LOINCIdentity & consentSMART on FHIR · OAuth 2.0 · mTLS$member-match · opt-in / opt-outImmutable audit logPrior Authorization APIPatient Access APIProvider Access APIPayer-to-Payer APICONSUMERSMember apps · provider EHRs and portals · other payers · CMS metrics reporting

Nothing in band one gets replaced. If a system can be read from, it can be mapped.

Scope

What We Build

Nine workstreams. Most engagements need six or seven of them — the readiness assessment tells you which.

Da Vinci CRD, DTR And PAS

Coverage Requirements Discovery over CDS Hooks, Documentation Templates and Rules with CQL-driven questionnaires, and Prior Authorization Support wrapping the X12 278/275 you already exchange.

Patient Access API

CARIN Blue Button for claims and encounters, US Core for clinical, PDex for prior authorization status. The one-business-day refresh enforced in the pipeline, not in a runbook.

Provider Access API

Bulk FHIR export with attribution logic, group management, and patient opt-out honoured at query time rather than reconciled afterwards.

Payer-to-Payer Exchange

$member-match implementation, opt-in capture, and a five-year historical pull that reconciles duplicate records instead of stacking them.

Source System Mapping

X12 278/275, HL7 v2, C-CDA, flat files and proprietary claims schemas mapped bidirectionally to FHIR R4. We maintain the Mirth Connect Cookbook in the open; this is the day job.

Identity, Auth And Consent

SMART on FHIR, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, mTLS and UDAP-aligned dynamic client registration. Consent capture, revocation and audit at the resource level.

Conformance Testing

Inferno and Touchstone wired into CI, so profile validation runs on every merge instead of the week before attestation.

Reporting And Audit Evidence

Immutable audit logs carrying decision timestamps and consent events, plus the Patient Access usage metrics and public prior authorization metrics as queryable outputs.

Deployment

AWS, Azure, GCP, on-prem or hybrid. Containerised, infrastructure-as-code, handed over with runbooks. Your accounts, your repository.

Engagement

How We Engage

2–3 weeks · fixed fee

Readiness Assessment

You get a gap analysis across all four API domains, a source-to-FHIR mapping inventory, a risk register, a sequenced plan with effort estimates, and a build-versus-buy recommendation. If buying is the right call for you, the assessment says so.

Request The Assessment

Start within 24 hours of NDA

Take Over A Stalled Build

We audit what exists, keep what conforms, replace what doesn't, and get you to a testable endpoint. Most rescues start with a conformance run to establish what's actually true.

Send Us What Exists
Delivery

A Typical CMS-0057-F Delivery

Timings assume a mid-size plan or vendor with source data in three to five systems. The readiness assessment replaces this estimate with a real one.

Weeks 1–3

Discovery And Mapping

Inventory the source systems, map claims, UM, clinical and eligibility data to FHIR resources, identify the gaps that need new data capture, and agree the deployment model.

Weeks 4–12

Build And Integrate

Stand up the FHIR core, build the connectors, configure Da Vinci profiles, implement member matching, and wire consent and opt-out flows.

Weeks 13–18

Conformance And Security Testing

Inferno and Touchstone runs against every profile, end-to-end API testing, load testing, penetration testing and security review.

Weeks 19–24

Go-live And Evidence

Production deployment, monitoring and alerting, audit log verification, and the documentation your compliance team needs on file.

Ongoing

IG Version Tracking

Da Vinci implementation guides keep moving. We track ballot changes and ship the updates as maintenance, not as a new project.

After 2027

The Layer You Build For CMS Is The Layer You Build On Next

Compliance builds have a habit of becoming write-only — data goes in to satisfy an auditor and never comes back out. Built properly, this one is a queryable clinical and claims store that everything else can sit on.

Member And Provider Apps

Member portals, provider-facing tools and third-party integrations run off the same FHIR store and the same auth layer. No second integration project.

Risk Adjustment And Quality

Conditions, encounters and medications already structured to US Core. Flatten to tables for HCC models and HEDIS measures against the compliance store directly.

Care Management

Longitudinal records — including the history that arrives through Payer-to-Payer — feed care coordination, utilization management and population health without a new pipeline.

AI And Automation

Structured FHIR is what ML pipelines want. Prior authorization auto-decisioning, predictive models, NLP over clinical notes — all against a single source.

Provider Collaboration

The attribution and export machinery built for Provider Access is the same machinery value-based care reporting and network analytics need.

Whatever CMS Does Next

New Da Vinci guides, digital quality measures, TEFCA-aligned exchange. These land as configuration on infrastructure you already run.

Track record

What We've Already Shipped

FHIR R4 architecture, Da Vinci profile work, X12 and HL7 mapping — the layers CMS-0057-F sits on. Much of it is in public repositories, so you can read the code before you talk to us.

100+healthcare-focused engineers
100+AI-enabled products built
30+healthtech EHR integrations
7open-source healthcare repos

Headless EHR — Open Source

28 clinical domains, 70+ FHIR R4 resources, SMART on FHIR, schema-per-tenant multi-tenancy and HIPAA audit logging. Public repository, public commit history.

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Mirth Connect, In The Open

OpenMirth Console — an operations and observability layer for Mirth Connect — plus a cookbook of production channel templates, transformers and filters we maintain publicly.

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Zero To Epic In Five Weeks

One healthtech went from no FHIR capability at all to a working Epic integration in five weeks.

Multi-EHR At Platform Scale

A health data platform integrating Epic, Cerner, Allscripts and athenahealth behind one interface — the same per-vendor variation problem CMS-0057-F creates across payers.

HIPAA-compliant · SOC 2 Type II · ISO 27001 certified · FHIR R4 native · We sign Business Associate Agreements with US health systems and digital health customers.

FAQ

CMS-0057-F Questions We Get Asked

Not directly — the obligation sits with Medicare Advantage organizations, state Medicaid and CHIP fee-for-service programs, Medicaid and CHIP managed care plans, and QHP issuers on the federally facilitated exchanges. But if your product sits in a provider workflow, your users will be calling these APIs from January 2027, and consuming them well is a product decision you own.

No, and we'd be careful with any vendor who claims a production reference for a rule whose API deadline hasn't arrived. What we can show you is the work underneath it: FHIR R4 architecture, Da Vinci profile work, X12 and HL7 mapping, EHR integrations for 30+ healthtech companies, and an open-source headless EHR you can read line by line before you talk to us.

No. The FHIR layer reads from what you have. If a system can expose data — through an API, a database, a nightly extract, an X12 feed — it can be mapped. Replatforming is a much bigger project than this rule requires.

No. The rule adds a FHIR interface on the front; X12 278 and 275 continue to be supported for back-end transmission. Most implementations use Da Vinci PAS to translate between the two rather than rebuilding the transaction layer.

Twelve to twenty-four weeks is typical for a mid-size plan or vendor with data in three to five source systems. The variables that move it are data quality, how many source systems there are, and how long security review takes on your side — not the FHIR work itself.

Since January 1, 2026: 72-hour expedited and 7-calendar-day standard decision timeframes (prior authorizations for drugs are excluded), a specific reason on every denial, and annual Patient Access API usage metrics reported to CMS. Prior authorization metrics have been publicly posted since March 31, 2026. The four APIs are the January 2027 obligation.

Depends on how much of the data is already structured and whether you want to own the layer afterwards. Buying is faster to a conformant endpoint; building keeps the FHIR store as an asset you can put analytics, care management and AI on top of. Our readiness assessment gives you a recommendation either way, including “buy it” — we'd rather tell you that in week two than in month five.

You do. Work happens in your repository, on your cloud accounts, from the first sprint. There's no proprietary runtime you have to keep licensing from us to stay compliant.
Next step

Get A CMS-0057-F Readiness Assessment

Send us your system landscape — claims platform, UM tool, clinical data sources, and whatever is already FHIR. We'll come back with the gap list across all four API domains and a sequenced plan. No deck required, and no obligation to build with us afterwards.

  • Reviewed by a FHIR architect, not a salesperson
  • Response within one business day
  • We sign an NDA before you share anything

Thank you — we've got it.

A FHIR architect will come back to you within one business day.

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