RateCard Health
REMOTE · RATECARDHEALTH.COM
Healthcare B2B trade-publication ad rate cards: price bands, 2026 price index, free sample.
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Last scanned (14 hours ago)
Scores higher than 57% of remote servers
Reachable. Last reached 5 Nov 2026.
Category Marketing and SEO
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. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Endpoint Security74
- The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key. View diagnostics → Pass
- No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Partial
- HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path. View diagnostics → Pass
- HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
Transport & Reachability100
- Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake. View diagnostics → Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability70
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Tool/resource definitions use about 537 tokens (~107/item across 5 items; 5 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management10
- Stability observed for 3 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage90
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 71% of tool parameters carry a description.Partial
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 5 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 6 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 5 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 3 Nov 26 +1
- Stability: unverified → 0.03 ▲ functional
- 2 Nov 26 69
First indexed and scored.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 5 Nov 2026 · Probed https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp
TLS valid
Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .
| Subject | Issuer | Valid from | Valid until | Key | Signature | Serial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN=ratecardhealth.com | CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US | 28 Oct 2026 | 26 Jan 2027 | ECDSA 256 | ECDSA-SHA256 | fdff5cc9e92e43b7131cd88b1dca4e2b |
| SANs: ratecardhealth.com | ||||||
| CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US (CA) | CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US | 13 Dec 2023 | 20 Feb 2029 | ECDSA 256 | ECDSA-SHA384 | 7ff31977972c224a76155d13b6d685e3 |
| CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US (CA) | CN=GlobalSign Root CA,OU=Root CA,O=GlobalSign nv-sa,C=BE | 15 Nov 2023 | 28 Jan 2028 | ECDSA 384 | SHA256-RSA | 7fe530bf331343bedd821610493d8a1b |
Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →
DNSSEC insecure
Validation of ratecardhealth.com. — Not signed
| Zone | DS | Keys | Algorithms | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| . | trust_anchor | 20326, 38696 | 8, 8 | Verified |
| com. | present | 19718 | 13 | Verified |
| ratecardhealth.com. | absent | Unsigned (proven) parent-signed NSEC/NSEC3 proves an unsigned delegation |
Authentication No authorisation required
The endpoint answered without asking for a token. Anyone who knows the URL can reach it.
| Result | No authorisation required |
|---|---|
| HTTP status | 200 |
Background: How OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 MCP spec →
Transports 2 probes
| Transport | URL | Outcome | Status | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| streamable-http | https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp | Verified | 200 | |
| http (plaintext) | http://ratecardhealth.com/mcp | HTTPS enforced | 301 | https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp |
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
get_free_sample Free 10-row sample ~38
The 10 free sample rows of the RateCard Health database (full fields, exact prices) — the same rows as the public sample CSV.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_price_index 2026 Healthcare B2B Advertising Price Index ~116
Aggregate ad-price benchmarks (CC BY 4.0) across healthcare B2B rate cards: median/quartile entry prices and derived CPMs (rounded, or banded; medians only for groups with 5+ rate cards), by format, category and price band. Optionally filter by group_type (all, format, category, entry_price_band) or group name.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| group | string | – | e.g. "Nursing", "E-newsletter", "Print" |
| group_type | string | – | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_publication Get one publication ~74
Public details for one publication: publisher, audience, circulation, open rate/CTR, entry ad unit with price band, names of other ad units, rate-card year, last verified date, official media kit link and page URL. Look up by slug or (partial) name.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| name_or_slug | string | yes | – |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
list_categories List categories and formats ~23
List the publication categories and format groups covered, with counts and page URLs.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_publications Search healthcare B2B publications ~203
Search the RateCard Health index of healthcare B2B trade publications, association e-newsletters and journals that publish advertising rate cards. Filter by category (e.g. dental, pharmacy, nursing, health IT), format (e-newsletter, print, dedicated email) and/or a free-text query (name, publisher, audience). Returns name, publisher, category, format, stated circulation/open rate, entry ad price BAND (exact only for the 10 free-sample rows) and the public page URL.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| category | string | – | Category name or slug: clinical-laboratory, dental, health-it, hospital-operations-administration, nursing, pharmacy, physicians-medical-practice, public-health |
| format | string | – | Format group: e-newsletter, print, dedicated-email |
| limit | integer | – | Max results (default 20) |
| query | string | – | Free text matched against publication name, publisher, audience and sub-vertical |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the RateCard Health MCP server?
RateCard Health is a hosted endpoint at https://ratecardhealth.com/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.
remote · ratecardhealth.com
claude mcp add --transport http com-ratecardhealth-rate-cards 'https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp'
What is the RateCard Health MCP server?
RateCard Health is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.ratecardhealth/rate-cards. Healthcare B2B trade-publication ad rate cards: price bands, 2026 price index, free sample. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp).
Is the RateCard Health MCP server safe to use?
RateCard Health scores 71 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 RateCard Health MCP server expose?
RateCard Health exposes 5 tools: search_publications, get_publication, get_price_index, get_free_sample, list_categories. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 454 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Does the RateCard Health MCP server require authentication?
No. We connected to RateCard Health without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.
Is the RateCard Health MCP server still maintained?
RateCard Health 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.