---
title: "Delete Draft Patient"
method: DELETE
path: "/api/eligibility-draft-patients/{patient_id}"
tags: ["eligibility"]
---

# Delete Draft Patient

`DELETE /api/eligibility-draft-patients/{patient_id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://app.archangelhealth.ai` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://app.archangelhealth.ai/api/eligibility-draft-patients/{patient_id}`
- Auth: none declared

Cancel a draft, retaining accepted originals and their source metadata.

Refuses to delete patients without ``is_draft=True`` so it cannot be
misused to evict a finalized patient from the roster.

## Path parameters

- `patient_id` string, required

## Headers

- `authorization` string, nullable

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/archangelhealth/apis/archangel-health-surgical-patient-platform.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/archangelhealth/apis/archangel-health-surgical-patient-platform/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/archangelhealth/apis/archangel-health-surgical-patient-platform/revisions/3514f4e119da?raw)