Beneficiary Claims Data API (BCDA) Community

This group is for Beneficiary Claims Data API (BCDA) users to ask questions, share knowledge, and provide feedback. We are a technical community with a shared mission of enabling high quality, coordinated care via BCDA solutions.

For more information about the BCDA, go to the website.

Community managers from CMS and its partner organizations are here to answer your questions and provide feedback and support. If a response will take us more than 72 hours, we’ll let you know and keep you informed of our progress.

Please do not share Personally Identifiable Information (PII) as defined in the Privacy Act of 1974 or Protected Health Information (PHI) when posting to this Google Group under any circumstances.

While the BCDA Google Group is a place to share general information, it is still a public forum where PII, PHI, and sensitive information cannot be shared. A good rule of thumb is, “when in doubt, leave it out”.

Examples of PII, PHI, and other sensitive information include:

• Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI)
• Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN)
• National Provider Identifier (NPI)
• Social Security Number (SSN)
• API keys or access credentials (e.g., Client ID, Client Secret)

Personal information commonly appears in API requests or payloads referenced in:

• Google Group posts or emails
• Files and attachments

Please redact PII, PHI, and other sensitive information in the following ways:

• For emails and editable documents, replace sensitive information with the word "REDACTED."*
• For screenshots and non-editable documents (e.g., PDFs) use any editing tool to completely cover or erase sensitive information. This can be done by adding a shape over the information. Make sure the shape is set to 100% opaque and save the final image in a format that supports layers (e.g., PDF).

*EXAMPLE OF A REDACTED RESPONSE