---
title: "Submit Claim Upload"
method: POST
path: "/api/v3/claims/upload/submit"
tags: ["Open API", "Claims Upload File Input Method"]
---

# Submit Claim Upload

`POST /api/v3/claims/upload/submit`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://developer.claimmind.life` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://developer.claimmind.life/api/v3/claims/upload/submit`
- Auth: none declared. Required headers: `X-API-Key`

Submit a new claim with file uploads, Word included.

Same contract as `POST /api/v1/claims/upload/submit`. Word files (`.doc`, `.docx`)
are converted to PDF and stored as `<name>.docx.pdf` / `<name>.doc.pdf`.

**Supported file types:** PDF, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, Word (.doc, .docx)
**Max file size:** 10MB per file; Word files have no size limit

**Errors:** `422 INVALID_FILE` (a Word file is corrupt or password-protected),
`503 CONVERTER_UNAVAILABLE` (retry later). Nothing is stored on either.

**Required scope:** `claims:write`

## Headers

- `X-API-Key` string, required

## Request body `multipart/form-data`

- BodySubmitClaimUploadApiV3ClaimsUploadSubmitPost
  - `files` string[], required: Medical documents (PDF, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, Word .doc/.docx)
  - `metadata` string, nullable: Optional JSON string of claim metadata

## Response `202`

Successful Response

- ClaimSubmitResponse: Claim submission response.
  - `claim_id` string, required
  - `external_claim_id` string, nullable
  - `workflow_id` string, required
  - `status` string, required
  - `status_url` string, required
  - `submitted_at` string, required

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

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