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PractitionerRole resource (FHIR R4)

PractitionerRole is the FHIR R4 resource for a specific set of Roles/Locations/specialties/services that a practitioner may perform at an organization for a period of time.

ResourcePractitionerRole
FHIR versionR4 (4.0.1)
Canonical URLhttp://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/PractitionerRole
Required elementsnone; every top-level element is optional (min 0) in base R4
IG profiles in this catalog2

Example

{
  "resourceType": "PractitionerRole",
  "id": "practitionerrole-946f479e378e5276a2db72561d62abfb",
  "active": true,
  "practitioner": {
    "reference": "Practitioner/practitioner-1814221653",
    "display": "Williamson, Rosa"
  },
  "organization": {
    "display": "General Hospital"
  },
  "code": [
    {
      "coding": [
        {
          "system": "http://nucc.org/provider-taxonomy",
          "code": "2084P0800X",
          "display": "Psychiatry"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "specialty": [
    {
      "coding": [
        {
          "system": "http://nucc.org/provider-taxonomy",
          "code": "2084P0800X",
          "display": "Psychiatry"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "telecom": [
    {
      "system": "phone",
      "value": "+1-555-0123",
      "use": "work"
    }
  ]
}

Generated by the Pidgeon engine: pidgeon generate PractitionerRole --seed 20260722.

Validation context

  • strict pidgeon validate grades a PractitionerRole instance against the base R4 structure definition: missing required elements raise REQUIRED_FIELD_MISSING and cardinality violations raise CARDINALITY_MIN or CARDINALITY_MAX.(REQUIRED_FIELD_MISSING)
  • strict Profile validation grades the same instance against an installed IG profile: profile cardinality findings carry FHIR-PROFILE-CARDINALITY and terminology binding findings carry FHIR-PROFILE-BINDING.(FHIR-PROFILE-CARDINALITY)

This answer, in your terminal

pidgeon lookup PractitionerRole

Wire it into your AI agent:

claude mcp add pidgeon -- npx -y @pidgeonhealth/mcp

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Rendered from the same machine-readable definitions the Pidgeon engine validates against. Exported from the Pidgeon engine's FHIR R4 definitions (CC0); example generated with seed 20260722.