diff --git a/fhir_pyrate/pirate.py b/fhir_pyrate/pirate.py
index 1b4f2c7..9ecf5d1 100644
--- a/fhir_pyrate/pirate.py
+++ b/fhir_pyrate/pirate.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 from types import TracebackType
 from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, Generator, List, Optional, Tuple, Type, Union
 
+import fhirpathpy
 import pandas as pd
 import requests
 from dateutil.parser import parse
@@ -22,9 +23,6 @@
 from fhir_pyrate import Ahoy
 from fhir_pyrate.util import FHIRObj, string_from_column
 from fhir_pyrate.util.bundle_processing_templates import flatten_data, parse_fhir_path
-from fhir_pyrate.util.imports import optional_import
-
-fhirpathpy, _ = optional_import(module="fhirpathpy")
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index c65d162..2f5330c 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -717,13 +717,13 @@ devel = ["colorama", "json-spec", "jsonschema", "pylint", "pytest", "pytest-benc
 
 [[package]]
 name = "fhirpathpy"
-version = "0.1.2"
+version = "0.2.2"
 description = "FHIRPath implementation in Python"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
-    {file = "fhirpathpy-0.1.2-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:47f9abd27e378ac0aa7ac465eadff56f1cfa74a53a16b7ec76a03b00ec71a6ef"},
-    {file = "fhirpathpy-0.1.2.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:0ade7a096cfc9398aff05dec8fb0369532a78ac8ebe7a9944bf9f0956ce817ad"},
+    {file = "fhirpathpy-0.2.2-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:add2c54c5d315cf73684d702da1fee6b6a7068f0477e809935dc4118410d908e"},
+    {file = "fhirpathpy-0.2.2.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:3965db763337e9fccaca5508b7ec27d777c4db2158e323f9bf49582f8d754da3"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
@@ -3160,4 +3160,4 @@ miner = ["spacy"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.8"
-content-hash = "4ba6e1d3d57fdd3cf21232f44111614e0f93c41109bda4df60a24070a4fe6c8f"
+content-hash = "f789b3355599742abdc392ec51d4ad46d5df46e56b2071ffa6f2cd8eaf01a9ee"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2dc873f..d622da9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ pandas = "^1.3.0"
 tqdm = "^4.56.0"
 requests = "^2.28.0"
 PyJWT = "^2.4.0"
-fhirpathpy = "^0.1.0"
+fhirpathpy = "^0.2.2"
 requests-cache = "^0.9.7"