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CMS-0057-F · Readiness, API engineering & delivery

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CMS-0057-F implementation for US payers and the healthtech teams serving them. We assess your gaps, build the FHIR APIs and connect the systems behind them—from a first workstream to a stalled-build recovery.

Bring your current challenge. No presentation or patient data needed.

Engineering you can inspect. Our open-source CRD, DTR & PAS servers

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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

Nirmitee open source / Da Vinci

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Three public, payer-side reference implementations for the prior-authorization journey. Built by Nirmitee in Go and .NET, for engineering teams to read, run, test against and build on.

CRDDTRPAS
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  1. 01CRD

    Coverage Requirements Discovery

    Does this order need authorization?

    Surface payer coverage and documentation requirements inside the ordering workflow, using CDS Hooks.

    Explore hook discovery, coverage responses and sample payer rules.

  2. 02DTR

    Documentation Templates and Rules

    What documentation does the payer need?

    Serve questionnaires, CQL libraries and value sets that a DTR client can use to collect the required clinical evidence.

    Explore questionnaire packages and adaptive questionnaire responses.

  3. 03PAS

    Prior Authorization Support

    Submit the request. Follow the decision.

    Exchange FHIR prior-authorization requests and responses, including submission, inquiry and pended-request notifications.

    Explore Claim operations, response bundles and sample decision workflows.

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 response electronically. Da Vinci CRD, DTR and PAS are recommended implementation guides under the 2024 rule, not a substitute for reviewing its required standards.

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.

2026 — operational provisions begin

Decision timeframes, denial reasons and API usage reporting have payer-specific applicability. The 72-hour / seven-calendar-day timeframes exclude FFE QHP issuers under this final rule.

March 31, 2026 — in effect

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

2027 — API compliance dates

API requirements generally begin January 1, 2027, with payer-specific dates and rating- or plan-year provisions. Confirm the applicable date for your organization.

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 CMS final-rule fact sheet → The 2024 rule excludes drug prior authorizations. CMS’s 2026 drug prior-authorization rule is a proposal, not a finalized requirement. This engineering overview is not a legal determination of applicability.

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 will consume supported payer APIs as they become available. 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

A FHIR layer can sit alongside your existing systems where their interfaces and data support the scope. Assess missing data, update frequency and upstream dependencies before deciding whether source changes are needed.

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

Select the workstreams your environment needs. We agree the deliverables, dependencies and acceptance criteria before implementation begins.

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

Three starting points. One accountable engineering team.

Assessment · scope agreed first

Know what to build

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.

Discuss your readiness

Start after access and scope are agreed

Get a stalled build moving

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.

Discuss your existing build
Delivery

A Sequenced CMS-0057-F Implementation

Sequence the work around source-data readiness, security review and acceptance criteria. An assessment establishes a project estimate; this pathway is not a deadline or compliance guarantee.

Phase 1

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.

Phase 2

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.

Phase 3

Conformance And Security Testing

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

Phase 4

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

Review changes to implementation guides against the applicable regulatory version and your deployed system. Agree testing and update scope before adopting a new version.

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.

A Foundation You Can Extend

Reusable mappings, documented interfaces and automated tests give future work a starting point. New standards and exchange requirements still need their own scope, validation and implementation.

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.

Explore The Headless EHR Repository

Inspect the implementation, documentation and commit history to evaluate its relevance to your architecture. A public repository is not a payer compliance certification.

Review on GitHub →

Review Our Mirth Integration Work

Explore integration examples and assess how channel mapping and operational patterns relate to your source systems.

Review on GitHub →

Discuss applicable security controls, data handling, contractual requirements and available assurance evidence during scoping. API conformance is one part of organizational compliance.

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. Provider products also need to plan how they consume supported payer APIs. Availability and compliance dates vary by payer, and provider reporting requirements should be assessed separately.

We are not presenting a completed payer-wide CMS-0057-F implementation as a reference on this page. We can discuss relevant integration engineering and the public repositories linked above. Ask for evidence specific to your scope; an API deadline does not prevent another organization from implementing early.

We first assess whether your existing systems can provide the required data and update frequency through permitted interfaces. A separate integration layer may be suitable, but missing source data or access constraints can require upstream changes.

Not automatically. CMS describes enforcement discretion for qualifying all-FHIR prior-authorization implementations, as well as FHIR/X12 combinations. Review the applicable transaction rules and counterparties before choosing the architecture.

We estimate after reviewing source data, API scope, identity and consent, security review, testing and organizational approvals. These dependencies affect both integration and conformance work. No fixed implementation duration or regulatory deadline is guaranteed.

Operational requirements generally begin in 2026, including denial reasons and reporting. Applicability and dates vary by payer. The 2024 final rule excludes drugs, and its 72-hour and seven-calendar-day decision timeframes exclude FFE QHP issuers. Review the linked CMS guidance with your regulatory team.

Depends on how much of the data is already structured and whether you want to own the layer afterwards. Compare a platform’s supported scope, implementation dependencies, licensing and long-term operating model with a custom build. 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.

Ownership, repository access, deployment accounts and handover are agreed in the engagement contract. Third-party platforms and components may carry their own licensing obligations; an engineering contract alone does not establish compliance.
Next step

You don’t need every answer to start the conversation.

Tell us what needs to work, what exists today and where you are blocked. We’ll discuss the relevant API workstreams and whether an assessment, implementation pod or build review fits.

  • Discuss your systems and implementation priorities
  • Identify what needs investigation before an estimate
  • Agree scope and commercial terms before project work
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