aid: sun-life
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sun-life/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Sun Life
kind: company
description: 'Sun Life Financial Inc. is a Canadian multinational life and health insurer and asset manager
  headquartered in Toronto, one of the "life trio" that dominates Canada''s insurance market alongside
  Manulife and Great-West Lifeco. Sun Life writes individual life insurance, individual and group health
  and dental coverage, group benefits, disability and absence management, annuities and retirement products,
  and runs a large wealth business through Sun Life Global Investments, SLC Management and MFS Investment
  Management, with operations across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Asia.
  In the United States it is a leading group benefits, stop-loss and dental carrier and owns DentaQuest.
  Sun Life publishes no developer portal under its own brand: its only named Sun Life API surface is Sun
  Life Link, a partner-gated benefits-connectivity program that exchanges evidence of insurability, plan
  setup, enrollment, billing and absence data with HR and benefits-administration platforms including
  Workday, ADP, UKG, PlanSource, Employee Navigator and bswift, negotiated per client rather than signed
  up for. The public, machine-readable APIs in the Sun Life group belong to DentaQuest, its U.S. dental
  subsidiary, which runs an Azure API Management developer portal at developers.dentaquest.com publishing
  three OpenAPI 3.0.1 definitions: a SMART-on-FHIR Patient Access API, a Da Vinci PDex Plan-Net Provider
  Directory API and an anonymous FHIR CapabilityStatement endpoint, all released under the CMS Interoperability
  and Patient Access Final Rule (CMS-9115-F) and served for both the DentaQuest and Delta Dental of Massachusetts
  brands. Canada''s supervisory split between OSFI and the provincial conduct regulators, and the exclusion
  of insurance from Consumer-Driven Banking, means no open-insurance mandate creates a forcing function
  for a public Sun Life API in its home market; the U.S. CMS mandate is what produced the only public
  one.'
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Insurance
- Canada
- Life Insurance
- Health Insurance
- Employee Benefits
- Group Benefits
- Dental Insurance
- Disability
- Wealth Management
- Financial Services
- Carrier
- FHIR
- Patient Access
- Provider Directory
- Healthcare Interoperability
- CMS-9115-F
- DentaQuest
- SMART on FHIR
- Dental Benefits
created: '2026-07-25'
modified: '2026-07-25'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: sun-life-dentaquest-fhir-patient-access
  name: DentaQuest FHIR Patient Access API
  description: FHIR R4 (4.0.1) read-only Patient Access API from DentaQuest, the Sun Life U.S. dental
    company, published under the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule (CMS-9115-F). Third-party
    applications authorize a member with SMART App Launch 1.0.0 (authorization code + PKCE S256, scopes
    patient/*.read, launch/patient, offline_access, openid, fhirUser) against an Okta CIAM authorization
    server, then read that member's Patient, Coverage, Organization, Practitioner and RelatedPerson resources,
    including _history and version reads. Conforms to HL7 US Core (3.1.1, 6.1.0 and 7.0.0-ballot instantiated
    in the CapabilityStatement). Errors return a FHIR OperationOutcome. The same API is served for the
    Delta Dental of Massachusetts brand.
  humanURL: https://developers.dentaquest.com/apis
  baseURL: https://api.dentaquest.com/FhirPatientAccess/v1
  tags:
  - FHIR
  - Patient Access
  - SMART on FHIR
  - Dental
  - CMS Mandate
  - Health Data
  - OAuth
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sun-life-dentaquest-fhir-patient-access-openapi.json
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/sun-life-dentaquest-fhir-patient-access-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.dentaquest.com/en/interoperability-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.dentaquest.com/apis
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/sun-life-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/sun-life-scopes.yml
  - type: OpenIDConnect
    url: well-known/sun-life-dentaquest-okta-openid-configuration.json
  - type: SignUp
    url: https://dentaquest.logicmanager.com/incidents/?t=1241&p=215&k=F0E3BD92F157F9B73EDE82834286E7CEA4044134B39D92AC3EE7E56392194241
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/sun-life-dentaquest-patient-access-smart-launch.md
- aid: sun-life-dentaquest-fhir-provider-directory
  name: DentaQuest FHIR Provider Directory API
  description: FHIR R4 (4.0.1) Provider Directory API from DentaQuest, the Sun Life U.S. dental company,
    conforming to the HL7 Da Vinci PDex Plan-Net Implementation Guide 1.1.0 and published under CMS-9115-F.
    Exposes read and search over Practitioner, PractitionerRole, Organization, Location, HealthcareService,
    InsurancePlan and Endpoint, each with _history and version reads, so third-party applications can
    find in-network dentists and dental plans. Authenticated with an Azure API Management subscription
    key sent in the Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key header or the subscription-key query parameter. Errors return
    a FHIR OperationOutcome. The same API is served for the Delta Dental of Massachusetts brand.
  humanURL: https://developers.dentaquest.com/apis
  baseURL: https://api.dentaquest.com/FhirProviderDirectory
  tags:
  - FHIR
  - Provider Directory
  - PDex Plan-Net
  - Dental
  - CMS Mandate
  - Healthcare Providers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sun-life-dentaquest-fhir-provider-directory-openapi.json
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/sun-life-dentaquest-fhir-provider-directory-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.dentaquest.com/en/interoperability-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.dentaquest.com/apis
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/sun-life-authentication.yml
  - type: SignUp
    url: https://dentaquest.logicmanager.com/incidents/?t=1241&p=215&k=F0E3BD92F157F9B73EDE82834286E7CEA4044134B39D92AC3EE7E56392194241
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/sun-life-dentaquest-provider-directory-search.md
- aid: sun-life-dentaquest-fhir-metadata
  name: DentaQuest FHIR Metadata API
  description: Anonymous FHIR R4 conformance endpoint for the DentaQuest (Sun Life U.S.) interoperability
    platform. A single GET /metadata operation returns the CapabilityStatement of the underlying Azure
    Healthcare APIs FHIR server (software version 4.0.815), listing every supported resource type, interaction
    and search parameter in application/json or application/xml. Requires no credentials and is served
    on both api.dentaquest.com and api.deltadentalma.com.
  humanURL: https://developers.dentaquest.com/apis
  baseURL: https://api.dentaquest.com/fhirmetadata
  tags:
  - FHIR
  - Conformance
  - CapabilityStatement
  - Metadata
  - Dental
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sun-life-dentaquest-fhir-metadata-openapi.json
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/sun-life-dentaquest-fhir-metadata-overlay.yaml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.dentaquest.com/apis
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/sun-life-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.sunlife.com/
- type: AboutUs
  url: https://www.sunlife.com/en/about-us/
- type: Canada
  url: https://www.sunlife.ca/
- type: UnitedStates
  url: https://www.sunlife.com/us/en/
- type: DigitalCapabilities
  url: https://www.sunlife.com/us/en/employers/products-and-services/digital-capabilities/
- type: PartnerIntegrations
  url: https://www.sunlife.com/us/en/employers/products-and-services/digital-capabilities/sun-life-link/
- type: EmployerPortal
  url: https://www.sunlife.com/us/en/employers/products-and-services/digital-capabilities/sun-life-connect/
- type: MemberPortal
  url: https://www.sunlife.com/us/en/employers/products-and-services/digital-capabilities/member-portal/
- type: Onboarding
  url: https://www.sunlife.com/us/en/employers/products-and-services/digital-capabilities/sun-life-onboard/
- type: WhitePapers
  url: https://www.sunlife.com/us/en/employers/products-and-services/digital-capabilities/sun-life-link/navigating-connectivity-in-benefits-administration/
- type: SignIn
  url: https://login.sunlifeconnect.com/commonlogin/
- type: AdvisorCommunity
  url: https://connect.sunlife.ca/s/
- type: InvestorRelations
  url: https://www.sunlife.com/en/investors/
- type: News
  url: https://www.sunlife.com/en/newsroom/
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.sunlife.com/en/careers/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sun-life-financial
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developers.dentaquest.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.dentaquest.com/en/interoperability-api
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developers.dentaquest.com/apis
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.dentaquest.com/en/interoperability-api
- type: SignUp
  url: https://dentaquest.logicmanager.com/incidents/?t=1241&p=215&k=F0E3BD92F157F9B73EDE82834286E7CEA4044134B39D92AC3EE7E56392194241
  name: Request DentaQuest API access
- type: Support
  url: https://www.dentaquest.com/en/contact-us
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.dentaquest.com/en/policies/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.dentaquest.com/en/policies/internet-privacy-policy
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.dentaquest.com/en/policies/hipaa-privacy-policy
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/sun-life-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/sun-life-scopes.yml
- type: OpenIDConnect
  url: well-known/sun-life-dentaquest-okta-openid-configuration.json
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/sun-life-well-known.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/sun-life-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/sun-life-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/sun-life-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/sun-life-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/sun-life-data-model.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/sun-life-mcp.yml
  name: Candidate MCP tool list (derived, not provider-published)
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/sun-life-llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com