Dental Attachments Getting Started

The Dental Attachments API provides the capability to send attachments data (including but not limited to X-Rays, EOBs, Charts, and so on), to Optum Dental electronically. This data will include claim demographic (payer, provider, patient, and service) details, and attachments related information.

Payers use the attachments service to view claim related attachments, which are documents used to justify a given procedure. Payers use attachments to adjudicate the claim and can find attachments in the portal to approve (or deny) a claim.

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In the current release, payers can search and view attachments and track usage. In later releases, payers can act upon the attachment, run reports, view rules, and more.

Use the v1/healthcheck endpoint to verify that the APIs are up and running.

The following user transactions are supported:

• Attachments
  • Create attachments
  • Search processed attachments
  • View attachment details from attachments
  • View attachments file
  • Delete attachments file
  • Payer/business rules
  • Check if the payer is currently a participant

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Currently, API testing is not supported in the sandbox environment.