> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.scan.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Employers and benefit teams

> How employer groups submit referrals and track them to the report

This guide is for **employers and benefit teams**. You authenticate as your
employer group. Patients you create are scoped to that group — you only ever see
your own.

Before using this guide you need a sandbox and an access token. Request keys from
[Get API keys](https://admin.staging.scan.com/partner/api_access). How to send
`Authorization` is in [Authentication](/authentication). Use synthetic data only
on the initial sandbox. Listing imaging centers, searching or creating practices or
law firms, and submitting an order-form-only referral may be off until Scan enables
them for your account.

## Submit

There are no employer-specific fields on `POST /api/v2/referrals` today. Create
the patient and referral with
[Submit a medical referral](/guides/submit-a-medical-referral).

* **Occupational injury** — use the workers' compensation payload in
  [Workers' compensation and payers](/guides/lines-of-business/workers-comp-and-payers)
  (`order_type: workers_comp`, `payer`, `claim_number`).
* **Benefit / non-occupational imaging** — use the default referral body in
  Submit a medical referral until a dedicated health-plan create schema exists.

Optional add-ons:
[Submit medical questions](/guides/submit-medical-questions) and
[Submit preferred times](/guides/submit-preferred-times). Full intake:
[Submit for scheduling](/guides/submit-for-scheduling).

## What you get back

[`GET /api/v2/referrals/{referral_id}`](/api-reference/referrals/returns-a-referral-by-id)
returns `line_of_business` derived from how the referral was created (`workers_comp` for
occupational injury). There is no separate employer line-of-business value.

## Status changes

Every status, what it means, and how changes reach you are on
[Track referral status](/guides/track-referral-status).

Occupational referrals may wait on authorization before they book, the same as
workers' compensation, so expect `pending_auth` on the way to `booked`.