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CareRanks Data

By careranks.com Verified namespace

CMS quality ratings, payer-negotiated prices, and clinician data for 41K+ US healthcare facilities.

Website
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Checks passed
12 / 22

2 failed · 8 not measured

Median response
114 ms

Median of successful probes over 7 days

30-day uptime
Not measured

Share of countable probes over 30 days, including daily rollups. Auth challenges are excluded.

Discovered tools
5

Tool definitions returned by this server

Independent monitoring

Health & checks

Status history

Outdated check

Last connection measurement is over 24 hours old. Current availability is unknown.

Last checked
Check summary by test group
Test areaPassedFailedUnmeasured
ConnectionCan a client connect and discover tools?
500
Reliability & speedDoes it respond consistently and quickly?
004
Access & authenticationWhat is required to use this server?
102
Tool qualityAre the tool definitions usable by an agent?
310
Publisher identityCan the publisher be traced to its source?
312

Unmeasured means there is not enough evidence to decide. How these checks work

Inspect individual checks 22 recorded

Core

  • Pass
    Reachable

    Latest probe returned HTTP 200 in 114 ms.

  • Pass
    Valid handshake

    protocolVersion 2025-11-25, serverInfo.name careranks-data.

  • Pass
    Lists tools

    tools/list returned 5 tools.

  • Pass
    Current protocol

    Negotiated 2025-11-25. The bar is 2025-06-18 or newer.

  • Pass
    HTTPS

    The endpoint URL is https.

Performance

  • Not measured
    Fast (p50)

    Median latency 114 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 1000 ms. Need at least 5 samples.

  • Not measured
    Consistent (p95)

    95th percentile 114 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 3000 ms. Need at least 20 samples.

  • Not measured
    Reliable (uptime)

    1 of 1 attempts returned a tool list in 30 days (100%). The bar is 99%. Need at least 30 samples.

  • Not measured
    Stable tool list

    Fewer than two successful probes in 30 days, so tool-list stability is not measured.

Access

  • Pass
    Open access

    tools/list succeeded with no credential, and the record declares none.

  • Not measured
    Standard auth

    Auth is not required, so the OAuth metadata check does not apply.

  • Not measured
    Free tier cited

    No publisher quote has been checked.

Tools

  • Pass
    Tools described

    Every tool description is at least 20 characters.

  • Pass
    Valid input schemas

    Every inputSchema is a JSON Schema object.

  • Pass
    Parameters documented

    12 of 15 parameters have a description (80%). The bar is 80%.

  • Fail
    Safety hints

    5 tools set neither readOnlyHint nor destructiveHint.

Publisher

  • Pass
    Verified namespace

    Listed in the Official MCP Registry.

  • Pass
    Website matches publisher

    The website host matches the reverse-domain namespace.

  • Fail
    Source repo linked

    No repository URL is on file.

  • Not measured
    Repo owner matches

    This namespace is not an io.github login, so the owner comparison does not apply.

  • Pass
    Recently updated

    Updated 2026-08-03T12:15:34.699638Z, within 180 days.

  • Not measured
    Open-source licence

    No GitHub repository to ask about a licence.

Start using CareRanks Data

Connect to this server

Choose your client, copy the configuration, then enable the server in your client’s MCP settings.

Run this command in your terminal, then restart Claude Code.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http careranks-data https://careranks.com/mcp

Capabilities

Tools 5

get_facility

Look up one facility by {type, id}. Returns the index record plus canonical URLs and which detail tools work for it. Hospital ids are CMS CCNs.

Discovered
get_facility_profile

Structured summary for any facility; for hospitals the full profile markdown (quality measures, ratings context) is returned AS THE TEXT CONTENT BLOCK, with metadata (truncation flag, full URL) in structuredContent. max_chars bounds the markdown body.

Discovered
get_hospital_clinicians

Clinicians affiliated with a hospital (CMS data): name, specialty, Medicare procedure volumes, Open Payments totals. Available for ~4,570 hospitals (clinicians_tool_available flag). Filter matches name or specialty.

Discovered
get_hospital_prices

Payer-negotiated rates parsed from a hospital's federally required machine-readable file. Without `drg`: a per-DRG summary (payer count, min/median/max) across every DRG in the file. With `drg` (digits; zero-padded automatically): the individual payer-by-payer rates for that DRG. Available for ~2,060 hospitals (prices_tool_available flag).

Discovered
search_facilities

Search 41K+ US facilities (hospitals, nursing homes, home-health agencies, dialysis centers, health systems) by name and/or city, optionally filtered by state and type. Returns ids usable with the other tools plus capability flags.

Discovered

Recent measurements

Probe history

View status
Latest stored probes. Raw probe rows are kept for 14 days.
CheckedResultResponseTools
Connected114 ms5

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