# Hospital Prices (npm · @pipeworx/mcp-hospital-prices) hospital-prices -- what US hospitals charge for a service: gross charge, self-pay price and… - Trust score: 81/100 (high trust) - Change this week: +19 - Registry status: active - Liveness: live - Owner verified: no - Last scored: 2026-11-05 ## Components - remote · `gateway.pipeworx.io`: 76/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-hospital-prices/hospital-prices-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-hospital-prices/hospital-prices-mcp) - npm · `@pipeworx/mcp-hospital-prices`: 81/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-hospital-prices/pipeworx-mcp-hospital-prices.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-hospital-prices/pipeworx-mcp-hospital-prices) ## Channel facts - Registry: `npm` - Package: `@pipeworx/mcp-hospital-prices` - Version: `0.2.1` - Transport: `stdio` ## Trust breakdown How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, 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. - **Supply Chain Security**: 100/100 - No malware found by supply-chain analysis. - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies. - No install/post-install scripts declared. - No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess. - **Provenance & Transparency**: 97/100 - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. - Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to pipeworx-io/mcp-hospital-prices). - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT). - Actively maintained (last published 3 days ago). - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository. - **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 56/100 - AI-judged instruction clarity (good). - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1222 tokens (~407/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. - **Stability & Change Management**: 23/100 - Stability observed for 7 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 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation. - An AI judge read all 4 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 Hospital Prices MCP server? Hospital Prices runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-hospital-prices. 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 pipeworx-io-hospital-prices -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-hospital-prices ``` ### Cursor ```json { "mcpServers": { "pipeworx-io-hospital-prices": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-hospital-prices" ] } } } ``` ### VS Code ```json { "servers": { "pipeworx-io-hospital-prices": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-hospital-prices" ] } } } ``` ### Codex ```bash codex mcp add pipeworx-io-hospital-prices -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-hospital-prices ``` ### opencode ```json { "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json", "mcp": { "pipeworx-io-hospital-prices": { "type": "local", "command": [ "npx", "-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-hospital-prices" ], "enabled": true } } } ``` ### OpenClaw ```bash openclaw mcp add pipeworx-io-hospital-prices --command npx --arg -y --arg @pipeworx/mcp-hospital-prices ``` ### Hermes ```yaml mcp_servers: pipeworx-io-hospital-prices: command: "npx" args: ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-hospital-prices"] ``` ### Netclaw ```json { "McpServers": { "pipeworx-io-hospital-prices": { "Transport": "stdio", "Command": "npx", "Arguments": [ "-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-hospital-prices" ] } } } ``` ### Vellum ```bash assistant mcp add pipeworx-io-hospital-prices -t stdio -c npx -a -y @pipeworx/mcp-hospital-prices ``` ### Other ```json { "mcpServers": { "pipeworx-io-hospital-prices": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-hospital-prices" ] } } } ``` ## 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 81, +1) No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes. ### 2026-11-03 (score 80, +16) - [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass - [functional regression] Security disclosure: unverified → fail ### 2026-11-02 (score 64, −13) - [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified - [functional regression] Security disclosure: fail → unverified - [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.13 - [functional] Package version: 0.2.0 → 0.2.1 ### 2026-10-30 (score 77, +15) - [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass ### 2026-10-29 (score 62) First indexed and scored. ## MCP tools (3) ### `hospital_price_search` (~595 tokens) What hospitals near a US ZIP charge for one service, from the standard charges files each hospital publishes under the CMS price transparency rule. Per hospital: gross charge (list price, not what anyone pays), self-pay discounted cash price, the de-identified min/max negotiated amounts, and a summary of payer-specific negotiated dollar rates; pass payer and/or plan to get that payer's negotiated rate rows. Each rate carries dollar_available: when a hospital published a percentage or formula instead of a dollar amount it says so and gives the hospital's own text rather than a number. COVERAGE IS PARTIAL AND STATED (the store is loaded state by state; each response lists the states loaded): every response says how many hospitals in range have prices loaded, why others do not (the hospital's site blocks us, no file found, ...), and distinguishes "no hospital in range", "hospital held but code absent" and "code present but payer not listed". Holds only the CMS 70 shoppable CPT/HCPCS services and MS-DRGs. Use for "what does a head CT cost near 02139", "MS-DRG 470 near 10016 for Aetna". Input parameters: - `code` (string, required): The service code: a CPT/HCPCS code from the CMS 70 shoppable services (e.g. "70450" head CT, "45378" colonoscopy, "99213"-style E&M codes only where on that list) or an MS-DRG number (e.g. "470" majo… - `code_type` (string): Optional. Inferred when omitted: 1-3 digits is an MS-DRG, a 5-character code is CPT/HCPCS. - `limit` (number): Hospitals to return (1-50, default 20), nearest first. - `near` (string, required): A 5-digit US ZIP ("10016") or "lat,lon" ("40.7459,-73.9780"). - `payer` (string): Case-insensitive substring of the payer name (e.g. "aetna", "blue cross"). Returns that payer's negotiated rows. Major payer families are matched under their other spellings too ("blue cross" also fi… - `plan` (string): Case-insensitive substring of the plan name (e.g. "ppo", "medicare advantage"). - `radius_mi` (number): Search radius in miles (1-150, default 25). Straight-line, from ZIP centroid to the hospital's ZIP centroid. - `rates_per_hospital` (number): With payer/plan: negotiated rows per hospital (1-25, default 5). - `setting` (string): Restrict to inpatient or outpatient pricing. Default: both. ### `hospital_price_compare` (~319 tokens) Side-by-side prices for one service at up to 10 named hospitals (by CMS Certification Number, CCN, from hospital_price_search or hospital_price_coverage). Same fields and same labelling as hospital_price_search: gross charge vs self-pay cash vs payer-negotiated rates, dollar_available on every negotiated rate, and for each hospital that has no price a stated reason (not held and why / code absent / payer not listed). Use for "compare MS-DRG 470 at these three hospitals for Blue Cross". Input parameters: - `ccns` (array, required): CMS Certification Numbers (6 characters, e.g. "330101"), 1-10. - `code` (string, required): The service code: a CPT/HCPCS code from the CMS 70 shoppable services (e.g. "70450" head CT, "45378" colonoscopy, "99213"-style E&M codes only where on that list) or an MS-DRG number (e.g. "470" majo… - `code_type` (string): Optional. Inferred when omitted: 1-3 digits is an MS-DRG, a 5-character code is CPT/HCPCS. - `payer` (string): Case-insensitive substring of the payer name. - `plan` (string): Case-insensitive substring of the plan name. - `rates_per_hospital` (number): Negotiated rows per hospital (1-25, default 25). - `setting` (string): Restrict to inpatient or outpatient pricing. ### `hospital_price_coverage` (~253 tokens) Whether this store holds a hospital's prices and, if not, WHY. Look up one hospital by CCN or by name (partial match), or summarise a state, or (no arguments) the whole store, including which states are loaded (the store is loaded state by state, so a hospital in an unloaded state is simply absent). Every hospital in a loaded state has a status: ok (prices held), blocked (its website refuses our requests; we do not evade blocks), not_found (no machine-readable file found), invalid_pointer, soft_404, unsupported_version, too_large, parse_error, no_matching_codes, not_fetched. Use before trusting an empty hospital_price_search, or to answer "does this tool cover Mayo Clinic". Input parameters: - `ccn` (string): CMS Certification Number, e.g. "330101". - `name` (string): Hospital name or part of it, e.g. "Mayo Clinic". Up to 25 matches are returned. - `state` (string): Two-letter state code, e.g. "MN": counts by status for that state. - `status` (string): With state: list hospitals having this status (e.g. "blocked"). ## Diagnostics Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-hospital-prices/pipeworx-mcp-hospital-prices#diagnostics ## Score history - 2026-11-05: 81 - 2026-11-04: 80 - 2026-11-03: 80 - 2026-11-02: 64 - 2026-11-01: 77 - 2026-10-31: 77 - 2026-10-30: 77 - 2026-10-29: 62 ## Common questions ### What is the Hospital Prices MCP server? Hospital Prices is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/hospital-prices. hospital-prices -- what US hospitals charge for a service: gross charge, self-pay price and… This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-hospital-prices). ### Is the Hospital Prices MCP server safe to use? Hospital Prices scores 81 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. Its build provenance is signed and verified. 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 Hospital Prices MCP server expose? Hospital Prices exposes 3 tools: hospital_price_search, hospital_price_compare, hospital_price_coverage. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,167 tokens of context every time the server is loaded. ### Is the Hospital Prices MCP server still maintained? Hospital Prices 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 licence is the Hospital Prices MCP server under? Hospital Prices declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls. ### What did VerifyMCP test on the Hospital Prices MCP server? VerifyMCP ran 16 checks on Hospital Prices, covering Malware scan, Known CVEs, Install scripts, Dependency health and 12 more. Endpoint Security and Transport & Reachability do not apply to an npm package, so they were not tested. The score does not measure everything, and the scoring documentation lists what it leaves out. ## Links - npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@pipeworx/mcp-hospital-prices - Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/@pipeworx/mcp-hospital-prices - Repository: https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-hospital-prices - Website: https://pipeworx.io/packs/hospital-prices - Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-hospital-prices/pipeworx-mcp-hospital-prices.xml - Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-hospital-prices/pipeworx-mcp-hospital-prices/changelog.json - Trust report (JSON): https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-hospital-prices/pipeworx-mcp-hospital-prices.json - HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-hospital-prices/pipeworx-mcp-hospital-prices