---
title: "Update Patient Preferred Provider"
method: PUT
path: "/user/patient/{patient_id}/preferred-provider"
tags: ["provider", "user"]
---

# Update Patient Preferred Provider

`PUT /user/patient/{patient_id}/preferred-provider`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://docs.decodahealth.com` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://docs.decodahealth.com/user/patient/{patient_id}/preferred-provider`
- Auth: none declared. Required headers: `TENANT`, `API-KEY`
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/decodahealth/apis/decoda-api/docs/user/patient/:patient_id/preferred-provider/put.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

Update the preferred provider for a patient.

## Path parameters

- `patient_id` string, required

## Headers

- `TENANT` string, required
- `API-KEY` string, required

## Request body

- object

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- boolean

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

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