# RateCard Health (remote · ratecardhealth.com)

Healthcare B2B trade-publication ad rate cards: price bands, 2026 price index, free sample.

- Trust score: 71/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `ratecardhealth.com`: 71/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-ratecardhealth-rate-cards/ratecardhealth.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-ratecardhealth-rate-cards/ratecardhealth)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://ratecardhealth.com/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**: 74/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Nothing on it is marked destructive, but we can't show that an anonymous caller can only read: full credit needs the server to list at least one tool and every tool to be verifiably read-only. We use a best-effort check of tool names and descriptions to tell read-only tools from tools that change things, so some genuinely read-only tools may not get full credit. Names that start with a read verb (get, list, read, search and similar) and accurate readOnlyHint annotations help. Meet that to earn full credit, or require authorisation.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - 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**: 70/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 537 tokens (~107/item across 5 items; 5 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 10/100
  - Stability observed for 3 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 90/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 71% 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**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### 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.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http com-ratecardhealth-rate-cards 'https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-ratecardhealth-rate-cards": {
      "url": "https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-ratecardhealth-rate-cards": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-ratecardhealth-rate-cards]
url = "https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-ratecardhealth-rate-cards": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-ratecardhealth-rate-cards --url 'https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-ratecardhealth-rate-cards:
    url: "https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-ratecardhealth-rate-cards": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-ratecardhealth-rate-cards -t streamable-http -u 'https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-ratecardhealth-rate-cards": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ratecardhealth.com/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 71, +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.

### 2026-11-03 (score 70, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-11-02 (score 69)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (5)

### `search_publications` (~203 tokens)

Search healthcare B2B publications

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.

Input parameters:

- `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

### `get_publication` (~74 tokens)

Get one publication

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.

Input parameters:

- `name_or_slug` (string, required)

### `get_price_index` (~116 tokens)

2026 Healthcare B2B Advertising Price Index

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.

Input parameters:

- `group` (string): e.g. "Nursing", "E-newsletter", "Print"
- `group_type` (string)

### `get_free_sample` (~38 tokens)

Free 10-row sample

The 10 free sample rows of the RateCard Health database (full fields, exact prices) — the same rows as the public sample CSV.

### `list_categories` (~23 tokens)

List categories and formats

List the publication categories and format groups covered, with counts and page URLs.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-ratecardhealth-rate-cards/ratecardhealth#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 71
- 2026-11-04: 70
- 2026-11-03: 70
- 2026-11-02: 69

## Common questions

### 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.

### What did VerifyMCP test on the RateCard Health MCP server?

VerifyMCP ran 13 checks on RateCard Health, covering TLS certificate, Authorization, HTTPS, HSTS header and 9 more. Supply Chain Security and Provenance & Transparency do not apply to a hosted endpoint, so they were not tested. The score does not measure everything, and the scoring documentation lists what it leaves out.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp
- Website: https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-ratecardhealth-rate-cards/ratecardhealth.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-ratecardhealth-rate-cards/ratecardhealth/changelog.json
- Trust report (JSON): https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-ratecardhealth-rate-cards/ratecardhealth.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-ratecardhealth-rate-cards/ratecardhealth