Stream: Da+Vinci+PDex+Plan-Net
Topic: Requirement for active = true on Plan-Net profiles
Saul Kravitz (Apr 21 2021 at 22:13):
Question from @Sudheesh Thuruthiyil :
The use case is to exclude certain providers from showing up in the provider directory. We would like to use the active flag on the plannet profiles to set to false. It appears you have mandated to have this contain a "True" always. Is there a workaround? Appreciate the help.
@Josh Lamb @Sean Mahoney
Josh Lamb (Apr 22 2021 at 01:41):
As I recall the IG is only meant to expose active directory data to support live search/retrieval. There is not a mechanism to purge/hide information. Rather than set active to false I believe the intent was to omit inactive data.
Sean Mahoney (Apr 22 2021 at 12:55):
Provider DIrectory IG is intended to present only active elements.
There is no provision for versioning, marking as deleted/deprecated. Any data returned by the API should be active, thus the requirement for active=True.
Sudheesh Thuruthiyil (Apr 22 2021 at 17:43):
Thanks for your responses. We are also using FHIR for storage of provider directory data and would have been nice to assign active/inactive flags so we could use this in the search/retrieval process of the API. Payers have many other business scenarios where they dont want to list their entire providers on a directory.
Saul Kravitz (Apr 22 2021 at 18:20):
Hi @Sudheesh Thuruthiyil
Nothing prevents you from doing that. However, all of the data served up through the API for members must have active = true.
Last updated: Apr 12 2022 at 19:14 UTC
