Ontology

HCPCS

Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System

HCPCS is a collection of standardized codes that represent medical procedures, supplies, products and services. The codes are used to facilitate the processing of health insurance claims by Medicare and other insurers.

biomedical sciencebusiness administrationontology
E36

FAIR 28/48

Version 2025aa

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagecms.gov DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in BioPortalNCBO BioPortal

Portals & registries

Also registered as
aberowl: HCPCS bioportal: HCPCS fairsharing: FAIRsharing.x81wz8

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR4/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
  • Indexed in services (F4)3: BioPortal, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+4
  • Citable reference (F2)no reference publication listed0
A Accessible FAIR12/12
  • Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
  • Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)download HTTP 200+6
  • Metadata persists in a registry (A2)Bioregistry+3
I Interoperable FAIR8/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR4/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)none found0
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2025aa (version info in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
Q Ontology consistency & quality0/20
  • Logical consistencynever checked by a reasoner0
  • OWL 2 DL profileprofile not checked0
  • Upper-ontology alignmentno BFO/COB/DOLCE import found0
  • Standard relations (RO)does not import the Relation Ontology0
  • ROBOT report: no errorsno ROBOT report available0
  • ROBOT report: warning densityno ROBOT report available0
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan or ROBOT report yet0
M Maintenance8/16
  • Recency2026-05-19 → 5.3 months (≤ 6 months)+8
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
U Community adoption0/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 0 → 0)0
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity0.4 years → 4 × max(0, 0.4 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 28/48 · earned 36/100 = 36/100 → grade E

Community adoption 0

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History & changes 1 run

History starts with the first archived run; changes appear after the next evaluation.

RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC36 E282025aa—JSON

Provenance

Every fact on this page was fetched automatically. Each row shows where it came from and when. If a source fails, the last good value is kept and marked “carried forward”.

FactSourceRetrieved
Homepage link check (HTTP 200)cms.gov26 Oct 2026, 02:59 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)aber-owl.net26 Oct 2026, 02:59 UTC
Artefact header (version info)aber-owl.net26 Oct 2026, 02:59 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:59 UTC

Run 2026-10-26T02-37-38Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.4 · entry.json · run snapshot