The imaging rails for healthcare

One API for outpatient imaging. Order, route, and retrieve.

Search a national network of imaging centers, place a scan order, steer patients to the right site of care, and pull back structured radiology reports. One integration, every payer type.

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10 min to first call 2 SDKs, more coming PHI-free sandbox
POST /api/v2/providers/search
curl https://api.sandbox.scan.com/api/v2/providers/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAN_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "modality": "mri", "zip": "30303", "network": "aetna_ppo" }'
200 OK · 142msresponse
{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "prv_5Kd2",
      "name": "Peachtree Imaging - Midtown",
      "modality": "mri",
      "distance_mi": 2.4,
      "in_network": true,
      "cash_price_usd": 420,
      "hospital_price_usd": 1180
    }
  ]
}
Pick your lane

Built for the teams shipping imaging

EHR / PMS integrators

Wire Scan into clinical ordering. Search providers, place orders, retrieve reports.

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Employer / TPA platforms

Price estimates, site-of-care steerage, concierge scheduling, claims-audit feeds.

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Billing / RCM / comp

Submit and track workers-comp orders, pull documents, integrate billing.

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Self-serve developers

Grab a sandbox key and make your first call against seeded demo data in minutes.

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The flow

From provider search to report in three calls

Search a national network, place the order at the right site of care, then receive the structured report. Same three primitives whether you're integrating an EHR, a TPA platform or a workers-comp portal.

  • providers.search: modality, geography, network, price
  • orders.create: bind a patient to a chosen provider
  • orders.report: structured JSON plus signed PDF
# 1. Find an in-network MRI near the patient
curl -X POST https://api.scan.com/v2/providers/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAN_KEY" \
  -d '{ "modality": "mri", "zip": "30303", "network": "aetna_ppo" }'
# 2. Place the order at the chosen site of care
curl -X POST https://api.scan.com/v2/orders \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAN_KEY" \
  -d '{ "provider_id": "prv_5Kd2", "patient_id": "pat_8Jm1", "cpt": "72148" }'
# 3. Pull the structured radiology report when ready
curl https://api.scan.com/v2/orders/ord_Qa7/report \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAN_KEY"
How the API works

One integration, every imaging workflow

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IMAGING NETWORK · 3,600+ CENTERS · 50 STATESYour appEHR / EMRCare navigationYOUR SYSTEMSScan.comAPI · v2REST · Webhooks · SDKsGET/v2/providers/searchFind in-network centersPOST/v2/ordersPlace an imaging orderPOST/v2/orders/{id}/scheduleBook the appointmentGET/v2/reports/{id}Structured report + PDFPOST/v2/webhooksLifecycle eventsGET/v2/billing/invoicesClean settlement
requests webhook eventsone API · search · order · schedule · report · bill
Platform

What you can build

Composable primitives. No bespoke EDI, no faxed orders, no per-center contracts.

Network

Network and site-of-care search

Filter by modality, geography, network and price across thousands of imaging centers.

POST /v2/providers/search
Orders

Scan ordering

One call to schedule an outpatient scan, with patient comms and prior auth handled.

POST /v2/orders
Reports

Structured reports

Retrieve specialist reads as machine-readable JSON plus the signed PDF.

GET /v2/orders/:id/report
Pricing

Price and steerage

Surface in-network and cash prices, recommend a high-value in-network site.

POST /v2/estimates
Events

Signed webhooks

HMAC-signed lifecycle events with retries and replay from the dashboard.

order.status_changed
Files

Images and documents

Pull DICOM, signed PDFs and supporting documents through a single document API.

GET /v2/documents/:id
Quickstart

Your first scan order in 10 minutes

  1. 1

    Get a sandbox API key

    Sign up and we'll mint a sandbox key bound to a demo tenant, no card, no PHI.

    .env
    SCAN_KEY=sk_sandbox_3f9a72c1d4e8b06a
  2. 2

    Make your first authenticated call

    Pre-seeded: your demo tenant ships with imaging centers across modalities, a demo patient pat_8Jm1, and orders in every status. Nothing to set up.
    # Authenticated provider search against the sandbox
    curl https://api.sandbox.scan.com/api/v2/providers/search \
      -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAN_KEY" \
      -d '{ "modality": "ct", "zip": "94110", "radius_mi": 15 }'
  3. 3

    Walk the full flow

    Place a real sandbox order against the seeded patient and pull the report back when it's ready.

    curl -X POST https://api.sandbox.scan.com/api/v2/orders \
      -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAN_KEY" \
      -d '{
        "provider_id": "prv_5Kd2",
        "patient_id":  "pat_8Jm1",
        "body_part":   "lumbar_spine",
        "cpt":         "72148"
      }'
    # => 201 Created
    # { "id": "ord_Qa7", "status": "scheduled" }
    Test every branch: use magic IDs to force outcomes. ord_report_ready returns a signed report, prv_no_availability returns an empty slot set, pat_invalid triggers a 422.
  4. 4

    Go to production

    We BAA-gate production access and run a short technical review, usually same week. Bring your callback URL and we'll wire it up.

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API reference

Search providers

Search the imaging network by modality, geography, payer network and price. Returns freestanding and hospital pricing for site-of-care comparison. Paginated, fully sandboxable.

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POSThttps://api.scan.com/api/v2/providers/search

Returns data[] of Provider objects, plus has_more boolean.

Body parameters

  • modalitystring enumRequired

    mri · ct · xray · ultrasound · pet · mammo

  • zipstringRequired

    5-digit US ZIP for the search origin.

  • radius_miintegerOptional

    Search radius in miles. Default 25.

  • networkstringOptional

    Payer slug, e.g. aetna_ppo.

  • limitintegerOptional

    Results per page. Default 20, max 100.

Request
curl -X POST https://api.sandbox.scan.com/api/v2/providers/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCAN_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "modality": "mri",
    "zip": "30303",
    "radius_mi": 25,
    "network": "aetna_ppo",
    "limit": 20
  }'
Example response
{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "prv_5Kd2",
      "name": "Peachtree Imaging - Midtown",
      "modality": "mri",
      "distance_mi": 2.4,
      "in_network": true,
      "cash_price_usd": 420,
      "hospital_price_usd": 1180
    },
    {
      "id": "prv_9Tb8",
      "name": "Atlanta Open MRI",
      "modality": "mri",
      "distance_mi": 5.1,
      "in_network": true,
      "cash_price_usd": 395,
      "hospital_price_usd": 1090
    }
  ],
  "has_more": false
}

Built for healthcare

HIPAA, BAA-gated productionSOC 2 Type IIPHI-free sandbox, synthetic dataScoped API keys and OAuth99.95% uptime, status page
Built for agents

Built for machines as well as developers: clean markdown docs, a full OpenAPI spec, and an MCP server.

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  • llms.txt and .md on every page
  • Copy for LLM, Open in Claude or ChatGPT
  • MCP server for Cursor, VS Code, Claude

SDKs

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