specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/RateLimits
provider: Acadia Healthcare
providerId: acadia-healthcare
created: '2026-05-04'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-04, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: searched
modified: '2026-08-29'
reconciled: false
tags:
  - Behavioral Health
  - Mental Health
  - Rate Limiting
description: Acadia Healthcare does not publish a developer-facing API or rate-limit documentation. As
  a clinical services provider, any system-to-system integrations (HL7, FHIR, payer EDI) are scoped through
  direct partner contracts rather than a public API portal.
source: https://www.acadiahealthcare.com
sources:
  - https://www.acadiahealthcare.com
notes: >-
  Re-searched 2026-08-29. No public rate-limit documentation exists, because no public API reference
  exists. No response headers could be observed: api.acadiahealthcare.com returns a bare HTTP 404 with
  Content-Length 0 and no rate-limit headers on every anonymous path. limit_count is an honest zero.
limit_count: 0
evidence:
  - url: https://api.acadiahealthcare.com/
    status: 404
    note: >-
      Empty-body 404; response carries no X-RateLimit-*, RateLimit-*, or Retry-After header.
  - url: https://developer.acadiahealthcare.com/
    status: 0
    note: NXDOMAIN — no developer portal to carry a limits page.
responseCodes: {}
limits: []
policies:
  - name: Partner Contract Scoped
    description: Where integrations exist (HL7, FHIR exchanges with payers and providers), throughput
      is governed by partner-specific data-sharing agreements, not public rate limits.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: info@apievangelist.com