Upload Practitioners

The DPC Team provides a bundle of sample practitioners you can use to create a test organization.

Minimum practitioner requirements

Include the following to avoid a 422 - Unprocessable Entity error.

First and last name
Type 1 National Provider Identifier (NPI)

Note: If an existing practitioner is found with the same NPI, the /Practitioner endpoint will return the same practitioner.

Add a practitioner bundle

The $submit operation lets you upload a bundle of practitioner resources in a single batch using the /Practitioner endpoint. If you don’t include the minimum requirements described above, you’ll receive an error.

Example request

POST /api/v1/Practitioner/$submit

Example cURL command

curl 'https://sandbox.dpc.cms.gov/api/v1/Practitioner/$submit' \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $BEARER_TOKEN" \
     -H 'Accept: application/fhir+json' \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/fhir+json' \
     -d @practitioner_bundle.json

curl 'https://sandbox.dpc.cms.gov/api/v1/Practitioner/$submit' \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $BEARER_TOKEN" \
     -H 'Accept: application/fhir+json' \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/fhir+json' \
     -d @practitioner_bundle.json