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Welcome to the Beneficiary FHIR Data (BFD) wiki

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The BFD Server is an internal backend system used at CMS to serve Medicare beneficiaries' demographic, enrollment, and claims data in FHIR format. This wiki seeks to provide resources that help those that wish to connect to BFD in support of their applications. It also has resources to help maintainers and contributors with resources for setting up their environments and maintaining the ecosystem.

You can check the right sidebar to browse the pages available, or look below for further guidance!

Resources for BFD Users

If you're a user of the BFD server API (aka connecting to and retrieving information from BFD), you may be interested in the following pages:

• Making-Requests-to-BFD - Information about header values needed when making calls to the BFD API
• Synthetic-Data-Guide - Guide to using Synthetic data to test BFD safely, and what data is available
  • Synthetic-Data-FAQ - Commonly or previously asked questions about the synthetic data
• Migrating to V2 FAQ - A quick guide on migrating to the V2 versions of the endpoints from V1

Resources for BFD Contributors and Maintainers

• Local-Environment-Setup-for-BFD-Development - Help on installing step-by-step each piece of software needed to develop and run BFD server locally
  • Testing-Your-Local-Environment-Setup - Information on testing your local setup after the above setup
• BFD-Code-Style-Guide - The style guide for Java code in this repo
• Environments - Information about BFD environments and what they are for
• Runbooks - Contains maintenance documents for executing and troubleshooting various BFD scenarios