MedRates
Give health or fintech agents live access to US hospital price transparency and insurance-negotiated rate comparisons.
Overview
fyi.medrates/mcp is a MCP server for the Build phase that searches US hospital prices and compares insurance-negotiated rates.
What is this MCP server?
- Streamable HTTP MCP at https://mcp.medrates.fyi/mcp
- Search US hospital prices and compare procedure costs
- Surface insurance-negotiated rates alongside list pricing context
- Public website and repo at mcp.medrates.fyi / dimaosipa/medrates.fyi
- No API key called out in published server.json remotes block
- Remote URL: https://mcp.medrates.fyi/mcp (streamable-http)
- Server version: 1.0.0
- Server schema: 2025-12-11
What problem does it solve?
Shipping a cost-transparency feature means parsing opaque hospital CMS files instead of answering “what will this cost here?” in the agent.
Who is it for?
Builders of health cost calculators, benefits assistants, or research agents that need US hospital and negotiated rate data via MCP.
Skip if: Global pricing apps, non-US markets, or products that require guaranteed HIPAA-covered PHI workflows without your own compliance layer.
What do I get? / Deliverables
Your agent can query MedRates over MCP for hospital price search and comparisons without building a national price ETL pipeline first.
- Live MCP connection to MedRates price search
- Agent answers grounded in hospital and negotiated rate comparisons
- Reduced custom ETL for CMS machine-readable price files
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Journey fit
Hospital pricing data is fetched through product integrations while you build cost-comparison or patient-advocacy tools. MedRates exposes comparison and search as an MCP remote so agents do not maintain their own CMS price file pipelines.
How it compares
Specialized hospital-rate MCP integration, not a general medical LLM skill or EHR connector.
Common Questions / FAQ
Who is fyi.medrates/mcp for?
Developers building US-focused tools that help users compare hospital charges and negotiated rates through an AI agent.
When should I use fyi.medrates/mcp?
When your product needs structured hospital price lookup and cost comparison during Build-phase backend or agent integrations.
How do I add fyi.medrates/mcp to my agent?
Add the streamable-http remote https://mcp.medrates.fyi/mcp in your MCP client; follow medrates.fyi docs if optional auth or limits are introduced later.