# itemnumbers MBS schedule (remote · itemnumbers.app)

Read-only Medicare Benefits Schedule lookup: items, history, relationships and combinations.

- Trust score: 68/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +50
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `itemnumbers.app`: 68/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-itemnumbers-itemnumbers-mbs/itemnumbers.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-itemnumbers-itemnumbers-mbs/itemnumbers)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://itemnumbers.app/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 63/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS check failed: the endpoint is reachable over plaintext HTTP.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 75/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 736 tokens (~147/item across 5 items; 5 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 20/100
  - Stability observed for 6 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 5 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 6 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the itemnumbers MBS schedule MCP server?

itemnumbers MBS schedule is a hosted endpoint at https://itemnumbers.app/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http app-itemnumbers-itemnumbers-mbs 'https://itemnumbers.app/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "app-itemnumbers-itemnumbers-mbs": {
      "url": "https://itemnumbers.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "app-itemnumbers-itemnumbers-mbs": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://itemnumbers.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.app-itemnumbers-itemnumbers-mbs]
url = "https://itemnumbers.app/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "app-itemnumbers-itemnumbers-mbs": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://itemnumbers.app/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add app-itemnumbers-itemnumbers-mbs --url 'https://itemnumbers.app/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  app-itemnumbers-itemnumbers-mbs:
    url: "https://itemnumbers.app/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "app-itemnumbers-itemnumbers-mbs": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://itemnumbers.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add app-itemnumbers-itemnumbers-mbs -t streamable-http -u 'https://itemnumbers.app/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "app-itemnumbers-itemnumbers-mbs": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://itemnumbers.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-05 (score 68, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 17 to 20. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 5 days of observed history at the previous scan, 6 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-04 (score 67, +49)

- [security regression] HTTPS: unverified → fail
- [security improvement] Authorization: unverified → partial
- [security improvement] Injection markers: unverified → pass
- [security improvement] Transport: fail → pass
- [functional regression] MCP protocol: unverified → fail
- [functional improvement] Endpoint reachability: not serving MCP → reachable
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: unverified → 100
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.17

### 2026-11-02 (score 18, −48)

- [security regression] Endpoint reachability: reachable → not serving MCP
- [security regression] HTTPS: fail → unverified
- [security regression] Stability: 0.07 → unverified
- [security regression] Authorization: partial → unverified
- [security regression] Tool safety: pass → unverified
- [security regression] Transport: pass → fail
- [functional regression] Capabilities: fail → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified

### 2026-10-31 (score 66, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-30 (score 65, +47)

- [security regression] HTTPS: unverified → fail
- [security improvement] Authorization: unverified → partial
- [security improvement] Injection markers: unverified → pass
- [security improvement] Transport: fail → pass
- [security] First check of Judged manipulation: pass
- [functional regression] MCP protocol: unverified → fail
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: unverified → 100
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: fail
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: excellent
- [functional] First check of Destructive annotations: pass
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: fail
- [functional] First check of Tool coverage: 100

### 2026-10-29 (score 18)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (5)

### `search_mbs_items` (~140 tokens)

Search MBS items

Find Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items by item number or by words describing the procedure or service. Returns each match's descriptor, schedule fee and Medicare benefits from the current schedule. Use it first when you have a procedure but not an item number. Never put patient identifiers in the query.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): How many items to return, 1 to 20. Default 10.
- `query` (string, required): An item number or its start (for example 3038), or a few words naming the procedure or service (for example gallbladder removal). Never include patient names, dates of birth or other identifying deta…

### `get_mbs_item` (~98 tokens)

Get MBS item

Get one MBS item as published: full descriptor, fees and benefits, item type, dates, EMSN cap if any, and what the descriptor itself says: assistant and anaesthetic flags, hospital-only, time tier, and the items it excludes. Every figure comes from the schedule, never from memory.

Input parameters:

- `item_number` (string, required): An MBS item number, 1 to 6 digits, for example 30445.

### `get_item_relationships` (~100 tokens)

Get item relationships

Show how the schedule itself ties one item to others: items its descriptor (or another item's descriptor) says are not claimable with it, add-on items performed in association with it, and the neighbouring items filed in the same group and subgroup. Each link quotes the descriptor wording and names the item whose descriptor says it.

Input parameters:

- `item_number` (string, required): An MBS item number, 1 to 6 digits, for example 30445.

### `check_item_combination` (~171 tokens)

Check item combination

Compare a set of MBS items for one occasion with the rules written in their descriptors, as schedule reference information: pairs the schedule says are not claimable together, time tiers met or missed, flags for assistant, anaesthetic and hospital-only items, and the multiple operation rule for Group T8 items with the resulting total of schedule fees (a schedule figure, not a patient charge). It reports what the descriptors say and never drops an item; it does not decide what should be billed. Rules the schedule words in ways that are not coded, such as exempt items, are not checked.

Input parameters:

- `durations` (array): Minutes the service lasted, only for items whose descriptor has a time tier.
- `item_numbers` (array, required): The items performed on one occasion, 1 to 15 item numbers.

### `get_item_history` (~89 tokens)

Get item history

Show how one MBS item's descriptor and schedule fee changed across the schedule releases held here, newest first. Use it to answer what an item paid or said on an earlier date. Only the releases ingested are listed; it is not a complete history of the item.

Input parameters:

- `item_number` (string, required): An MBS item number, 1 to 6 digits, for example 30445.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-itemnumbers-itemnumbers-mbs/itemnumbers#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 68
- 2026-11-04: 67
- 2026-11-03: 18
- 2026-11-02: 18
- 2026-11-01: 66
- 2026-10-31: 66
- 2026-10-30: 65
- 2026-10-29: 18

## Common questions

### What is the itemnumbers MBS schedule MCP server?

itemnumbers MBS schedule is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as app.itemnumbers/itemnumbers-mbs. Read-only Medicare Benefits Schedule lookup: items, history, relationships and combinations. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://itemnumbers.app/mcp).

### Is the itemnumbers MBS schedule MCP server safe to use?

itemnumbers MBS schedule scores 68 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the itemnumbers MBS schedule MCP server expose?

itemnumbers MBS schedule exposes 5 tools: search_mbs_items, get_mbs_item, get_item_relationships, check_item_combination, get_item_history. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 598 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the itemnumbers MBS schedule MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to itemnumbers MBS schedule without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the itemnumbers MBS schedule MCP server still maintained?

itemnumbers MBS schedule is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://itemnumbers.app/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/maxand98/item-ai
- Website: https://itemnumbers.app/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-itemnumbers-itemnumbers-mbs/itemnumbers.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-itemnumbers-itemnumbers-mbs/itemnumbers.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-itemnumbers-itemnumbers-mbs/itemnumbers