Flexpa blog

Our blog is written by various Flexpa teammates on our learnings in the world of Patient Access.
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Retrieving Coverage, Benefits, and Plan Information

Exploring the different mechanisms available for accessing health plan benefits and coverage data.
February 20, 2025
Claudio Carbajal III

Healthcare Providers for developers

The challenges of referencing providers in FHIR data and how Flexpa solves them.
February 18, 2025
Dylan Klein

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

How MyFlexpa helped one of our very own reconcile over $2,000 in medical billing errors.
February 3, 2025
Claudio Carbajal III

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.
January 27, 2025
Kyle Tilman

Launching Flexpa's Medplum Integration

Flexpa Announces Integration with Medplum: Simplifying Healthcare Data Management
January 22, 2025
Joshua Kelly

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
January 13, 2025
Larry Ditton

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.
January 7, 2025
Angela Liu

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.
December 30, 2024
Joshua Kelly

Flexpa: Wrapped - 2024 Year in Review

An overview of Flexpa's 2024 achievements and improvements. Covers network expansions, consent flows, and record processing enhancements.
December 23, 2024
Joshua Kelly

Patient Access Records Retrieval at Scale in CMS 9115

What we learned from patient record retrieval at scale across CMS 9115 patient access APIs.
December 16, 2024
Joshua Kelly

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.
December 10, 2024
Angela Liu

Standardizing Health Insurance Payment Codes

A technical exploration of how Flexpa standardizes payment calculations across health insurance APIs
December 2, 2024
Dylan Klein and Kyle Tilman

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.
November 25, 2024
Joshua Kelly

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.
November 19, 2024
Angela Liu

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.
November 16, 2024
Flexpa Team

The Future of Payer Data Exchange

PDex is changing the game, Flexpa is making the game easy.
November 13, 2024
Kyle Tilman

How Flexpa converts 70% of user authorizations

Learn how 70.59% of all user authorization attempts through Flexpa succeed, where the rest drop off, and research we've conducted on member activation rates.
October 9, 2024
Angela Liu

Will AI replace FHIR?

Spicy takes on FHIR DevDays 2024
October 9, 2024
Joshua Kelly

The State of Payer Patient Access APIs

A scorecard for payers, vendors, and developers to understand the CMS-9115 landscape
October 9, 2024
Brendan Keeler

The wild and magical world of claims

All aboard healthcare's financial data train 🚂🚂🚂
October 9, 2024
Brendan Keeler

FHIR 101

Missed our webinar? No worries, we have you covered
October 9, 2024
Brendan Keeler

Does the health data even exist for the problem you are trying to solve?

Launching our first FHIR Implementation Guide for pulmonary function data.
October 9, 2024
Joshua Kelly

Launching PFT Extractor

We started with a simple sounding problem: can we automate the interpretation of pulmonary function tests? We ended up needing to solve a few other problems first.
October 9, 2024
Joshua Kelly

An Open Letter on Health Data

What we're building at Automate Medical and why.
October 9, 2024
Andrew Arruda

🔌 Real world healthcare software testing

Learn how we successfully tested Sero, our open source FHIR dev tool, at the 28th HL7 FHIR Connectathon - the place for healthcare dev teams to test new tools and health standards together.
October 9, 2024
Mason Secky-Koebel

Navigating the maze of patient onboarding

An overview of the patient onboarding landscape of Patient Access APIs
October 9, 2024
Angela Liu

🔌 🔥 Why YOU should attend a FHIR Connectathon 🔌 🔥

(and what I learned when I did)
October 9, 2024
Tom Hamilton

Medical code systems for developers

Breaking down the jargon
October 9, 2024
Dylan Klein

The future of payer regulation

A deep dive on our comment on CMS' proposed rule on interoperability and improving prior authorization
October 9, 2024
Brendan Keeler

Testing CARIN Digital Insurance Cards (🧪,📱,⚕️,💳)

We attended the CARIN Testing Event with our patient access SDK to test the future of consumer directed health plan information exchange.
October 9, 2024
Mason Secky-Koebel