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Welcome to the Beneficiary FHIR Data server (BFD) wiki

The BFD Server is an internal backend system used at CMS to serve Medicare beneficiaries' demographic, enrollment, and claims data using the HL7® FHIR® Standard format. This wiki seeks to provide resources to help both BFD users and contributors.

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