We extract UHC provider directories, in-network statuses, facility locations, and formulary lists. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.
Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.
Complete list of extractable fields for Provider Profiles objects from uhc.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"npi": "1982736450", "first_name": "Sarah", "last_name": "Jenkins", "specialty": "Cardiology", "accepting_new_patients": true, "telehealth_offered": false, "board_certified": true
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Complete list of extractable fields for Facility Locations objects from uhc.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"facility_id": "FAC-92817", "facility_name": "Northside Heart Clinic", "facility_type": "Specialty Clinic", "city": "Atlanta", "state": "GA", "zip_code": "30342", "latitude": 33.908, "longitude": -84.351
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Complete list of extractable fields for Network Coverage objects from uhc.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"provider_npi": "1982736450", "plan_name": "UHC Choice Plus", "plan_type": "PPO", "network_status": "In-Network", "tier_status": "Tier 1", "pcp_required": false, "referrals_required": false
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Complete list of extractable fields for Formulary Data objects from uhc.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"drug_id": "DRG-4451", "drug_name": "Lipitor", "generic_name": "Atorvastatin", "drug_tier": "Tier 2", "prior_authorization_required": false, "step_therapy_required": false, "quantity_limit": "30 per 30 days"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Provider Ratings objects from uhc.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"npi": "1982736450", "overall_rating": 4.8, "rating_count": 142, "wait_time_rating": 4.5, "bedside_manner_rating": 4.9, "staff_friendliness_rating": 4.7, "last_updated": "2026-10-14T08:30:00Z"
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Our UHC scraper handles the complex search states, location iteration, and plan selection required to map national provider networks accurately.
Extract NPIs, specialties, demographics, education, and board certifications for individual physicians and specialists.
Determine precise in-network and out-of-network statuses across different UHC plans for any given provider.
Capture exact coordinates, addresses, accessibility flags, and contact information for clinics and hospitals.
Extract drug tier classifications, prior authorization flags, and step therapy requirements from UHC formularies.
Track provider participation and facility networks specific to UHC Medicare Advantage and Medicaid plans.
Automated traversal of state, zip code, and plan type permutations to extract comprehensive national datasets.
Collect patient satisfaction scores, wait time ratings, and bedside manner metrics for listed providers.
Identify providers offering virtual visits and integrate telehealth flags into your directory build.
Track providers joining or leaving networks over time with our hash-based change detection system.
Brief in. Clean data out.
Provide target zip codes, plan IDs, or specialty lists. We design the extraction schema together.
We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, session management, and CAPTCHA handling for uhc.com.
Schema validation, null-rate checks, location outlier detection, and network coverage verification before full launch.
JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.
Healthcare portals use strict rate limiting and complex stateful search forms. Here is how we maintain reliable extraction.
UHC directories require sequential state selection (location to plan to category). We automate these complex Playwright flows to maintain session state across paginated results.
Healthcare portals use strict rate limiting and bot protection. Our crawlers use residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints and request timing to avoid IP bans.
To map a national network, we iterate through thousands of zip codes systematically, handling overlapping radii to deduplicate provider records accurately.
Provider profiles and network statuses are loaded asynchronously via API calls. We intercept these XHR requests directly or render the full DOM to capture complete datasets.
We maintain a hash index of last-seen values per NPI. Subsequent runs only push diffs, allowing you to track exactly when a provider drops out of a network.
Payers and regulators analyse geographic coverage and specialty distribution to ensure compliance with network adequacy standards.
Healthtech platforms enrich their internal directories with verified UHC provider demographics, NPIs, and active locations.
Rival insurance carriers monitor UHC network expansions, Medicare Advantage footprint, and provider overlap to optimise their own contracting.
Digital health startups integrate real-time network status and UHC provider ratings into their care routing algorithms.
Pharmaceutical companies track UHC formulary tier changes, prior authorization requirements, and step therapy rules for their drug portfolios.
Revenue cycle management teams verify historical in-network statuses to appeal out-of-network claims denials.
"UHC's provider directory is the largest in the United States, representing a critical map of healthcare access — but it remains locked behind complex search interfaces."
Most teams fail at healthcare scraping because they underestimate the complexity of stateful search forms and enterprise bot protection. DataFlirt manages the UHC extraction pipeline end-to-end, handling location iteration, plan selection, and WAF circumvention so your data team receives clean, warehouse-ready provider records.
Everything supported by our uhc.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.
Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.
Scrapy handles crawl orchestration, deduplication, and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and multi-step form submissions required by UHC directory interfaces. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.
We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across US regions. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions to maintain state during complex provider search flows. IP score monitoring prevents WAF blocks.
Pipelines run on AWS Lambda (burst) and ECS (sustained). Airflow handles scheduling, zip-code batching, and SLA alerting. All state stored in managed Postgres.
Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.
About uhc.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.
Ask us directly →Scraping publicly available provider directories is generally permissible under US law. DataFlirt extracts only public demographic, network, and facility data. We do not circumvent authentication walls, scrape patient portals, or handle PHI/HIPAA-regulated data.
Our Playwright crawlers automate the exact user journey: entering zip codes, selecting specific insurance plans, and paginating through results. We manage the session state and cookies required to keep the search context active.
Yes. By maintaining a baseline database of providers and their associated plans, our change-detection pipelines flag dropped plans, new network additions, and address changes in every run.
When scraping by geographic radius, UHC often returns overlapping provider lists. We use the provider NPI (National Provider Identifier) and internal UHC IDs as primary keys to deduplicate records before delivery.
Yes, we support extraction across all UHC plan categories, including Employer & Individual, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and specialized dental/vision networks.
A full national extraction across all major UHC plans involves millions of queries and typically runs on a weekly or monthly cadence, completing over a 48-72 hour window to respect target server load.
Yes. We offer a sample extraction for a specific zip code and plan type during the scoping phase, allowing your engineering team to validate the schema and data quality.
20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a regional provider map or a national network monitoring system — we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.
