Medicaid Open Data

Medicaid Open Data is a federal government open-data portal for United States running DKAN. It exposes the DKAN catalog API, a standardized machine-readable interface over approximately 255 datasets, supporting programmatic dataset search, metadata retrieval, and resource access. Because it runs DKAN, it shares a consistent API surface with every other DKAN portal, making it uniformly harvestable and integrable.

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Medicaid Open Data DKAN API

DKAN open-data API for Medicaid Open Data, covering a catalog of 255 datasets. Provides the DKAN search API (/api/1/search), the metastore (/api/1/metastore/schemas/dataset/item...

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aid: data-medicaid-gov
name: Medicaid Open Data
description: >-
  Medicaid Open Data is a federal government open-data portal for United States running DKAN.
  It exposes the DKAN catalog API, a standardized machine-readable interface over approximately 255 datasets,
  supporting programmatic dataset search, metadata retrieval, and resource access. Because it runs DKAN, it shares a
  consistent API surface with every other DKAN portal, making it uniformly harvestable and integrable.
kind: government
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/data-medicaid-gov/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Open Data
  - DKAN
  - Data Catalog
  - DCAT
  - Government Data
  - Federal Government
  - United States
created: '2026-06-04'
modified: '2026-06-04'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: data-medicaid-gov:catalog
    name: Medicaid Open Data DKAN API
    description: >-
      DKAN open-data API for Medicaid Open Data, covering a catalog of 255 datasets. Provides the DKAN search API (/api/1/search), the metastore (/api/1/metastore/schemas/dataset/items), and a CKAN-compatible action API where enabled. Base URL https://data.medicaid.gov/api/1/.
    humanURL: https://data.medicaid.gov
    baseURL: https://data.medicaid.gov/api/1
    tags:
      - DKAN
      - Open Data
      - Catalog
      - REST
      - JSON
      - Metastore
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://dkan.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
      - type: Website
        url: https://data.medicaid.gov
      - type: x-api-endpoint
        url: https://data.medicaid.gov/api/1/search?page-size=1
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://data.medicaid.gov
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dkan.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/data-medicaid-gov-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/data-medicaid-gov-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/data-medicaid-gov-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]