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io.github.cyanheads/medical-codes-mcp-server

Offline US medical code lookup and crosswalk — ICD-10-CM/PCS, HCPCS Level II, RxNorm. Keyless.

Checks passed
14 / 22

0 failed · 8 not measured

Median response
871 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
6

Tool definitions returned by this server

Independent monitoring

Health & checks

Status history

Responded

The server completed its last measured handshake. This is an observation, not a guarantee.

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?
400
Publisher identityCan the publisher be traced to its source?
402

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 871 ms.

  • Pass
    Valid handshake

    protocolVersion 2025-11-25, serverInfo.name medical-codes-mcp-server.

  • Pass
    Lists tools

    tools/list returned 6 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 871 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 1000 ms. Need at least 5 samples.

  • Not measured
    Consistent (p95)

    95th percentile 871 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

    21 of 21 parameters have a description (100%). The bar is 80%.

  • Pass
    Safety hints

    Every tool sets readOnlyHint or destructiveHint.

Publisher

  • Pass
    Verified namespace

    Listed in the Official MCP Registry.

  • Not measured
    Website matches publisher

    This namespace is not a reverse domain, so the website comparison does not apply.

  • Pass
    Source repo linked

    A repository URL is on file.

  • Pass
    Repo owner matches

    The GitHub repository owner matches the namespace login.

  • Pass
    Recently updated

    Updated 2026-10-29T18:25:54.576488Z, within 180 days.

  • Not measured
    Open-source licence

    The GitHub licence lookup has not returned an OSI result yet.

Start using io.github.cyanheads/medical-codes-mcp-server

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 io-github-cyanheads-medical-codes-mcp-server https://medical-codes.caseyjhand.com/mcp

Capabilities

Tools 6

medcode_browse_hierarchy

Walk a US medical code system's hierarchy for discovery without a search term. With no `node`, returns the top-level entries (ICD-10-CM categories, HCPCS range buckets, or ICD-10-PCS first-axis values). With a `node`, returns its immediate children. ICD-10-CM and HCPCS use a prefix hierarchy (a shorter code is the parent of a longer one); ICD-10-PCS is axis-based — each of its 7 characters is an independent axis (section, body system, root operation, body part, approach, device, qualifier), but only the top-level Section axis is browsable (omit `node`): positions 2–7 are context-dependent on the preceding axis path and are not enumerable from a flat partial code, so list the complete codes in a three-character ICD-10-PCS table row with medcode_map_codes (direction children) instead. Lets an agent orient in an unfamiliar system or enumerate a category's specific codes. A large child set paginates: when the response carries a `nextCursor`, pass it back as `cursor` to fetch the next page.

Discovered
medcode_check_code

Validate whether a US medical code exists, is current, and is billable in the active bundled release. Returns a discriminated status — valid_billable, valid_not_billable, valid_header, valid, or terminated — with a `whyNot` explaining non-billable and terminated cases (e.g. "valid ICD-10-CM category but not billable — submit a more specific child code"). A HCPCS code is terminated once its last valid date has passed; before then it checks as billable, with that date in `whyNot`. This is the detail a coder needs before submitting a claim. RxNorm has no billing concept, so a current RxNorm concept is `valid` with `billable: null` and no billing verdict. Auto-detects the system from the code's shape, and a code written in ICD-10-CM dotted form (`A01.00`) resolves to ICD-10-CM; pass an explicit `system` to disambiguate. A non-billable or terminated code is a successful result with a whyNot, not an error — only a code absent from the named system, or with no `system` from every bundled system, raises unknown_code, which names the other bundled system that holds the code, or every system the code's shape fits. A dotted all-digit value in ICD-9-CM form (`250.00`) is never read as an RXCUI, and its miss says ICD-9-CM is not bundled; an ICD-10-PCS section value from medcode_browse_hierarchy (`0`) checked under system ICD10PCS is named as a section, not a code. A code string that also exists in another bundled system carries `alsoInSystems` naming it, since the verdict applies only to the system that answered.

Discovered
medcode_get_code

Decode one or more US medical codes to their official descriptions across ICD-10-CM (diagnoses), ICD-10-PCS (inpatient procedures), HCPCS Level II (supplies/drugs/services), and RxNorm (drugs, by RXCUI). Also decodes a National Drug Code (NDC) directly to its RxNorm product offline, tagged `source: "NDC"` — hyphenated in an FDA segment configuration (4-4-2, 5-3-2, 5-4-1, or the 11-digit 5-4-2) or as bare 10/11 digits; any other segment widths are malformed and stay unresolved. Auto-detects the system from each code's shape, and a code written in ICD-10-CM dotted form (`A01.00`) resolves to ICD-10-CM; pass an explicit `system` only when a value is genuinely ambiguous. Accepts 1–50 codes and returns partial success: resolved codes in `found`, unresolved in `notFound` with a per-code reason, so one bad code never fails the batch. Each reply holds `structuredContent` and the text to 24,000 bytes apiece: codes are decoded in request order, and once one has resolved, a code that would carry the reply past that budget is returned unprocessed in `deferred`, as sent, with every code after it — re-call with `codes` set to `deferred` and the same `system` and `includeHierarchy` until no `deferred` comes back. Three kinds of code are never deferred and can carry a reply past the budget: the first code that resolves, returned whole; the codes before it; and the unresolved codes after the last one that resolves, so a re-call always holds a code that resolves. Only a batch where nothing resolves fails: with ambiguous_system and `candidateSystems` when every code exists in more than one bundled system, otherwise with no_codes_found. Set `includeHierarchy` to attach each code's parent and immediate children (with a `childrenTruncated` flag when a code has more children than the cap returns — walk the full set via medcode_map_codes, or medcode_browse_hierarchy outside ICD-10-PCS); an ICD-10-PCS table row's children are the complete codes that begin with it. The resolved `system` is echoed on every result for chaining into a billability check or a medcode_map_codes parents/children walk; a bare integer that resolves nowhere is named as a possible CPT / HCPCS Level I code, which is out of scope, except a bare 10/11-digit one, which is named as an NDC no bundled drug maps to; a dotted all-digit value in ICD-9-CM form (`250.00`) is never read as an RXCUI and is named as ICD-9-CM, which is not bundled; an ICD-10-PCS section value from medcode_browse_hierarchy (`0`) looked up under system ICD10PCS is named as a section, not a code; a code string that also exists in another bundled system carries `alsoInSystems` naming it, so a single answer to a colliding code is never mistaken for the only one.

Discovered
medcode_list_systems

List the bundled US medical code systems with their release identifiers, effective dates, and code counts, and the RxClass drug-class layer the class crosswalks read, with each source’s version. Confirms which ICD-10-CM fiscal year, ICD-10-PCS fiscal year, HCPCS Level II release, RxNorm normalized set, and RxClass sources are active before acting on any decode, search, or crosswalk result. The corpus is offline and built at package-build time — this call reports exactly which release is baked into the running server. ICD-10-CM/PCS are the US clinical modifications, not the ICD-10/ICD-11 base.

Discovered
medcode_map_codes

Crosswalk a US medical code or drug across systems and within a hierarchy. Hierarchy directions: `parents` and `children` walk a code's hierarchy one level per call — immediate parent/children only (depth-1); call iteratively for the full ancestor or descendant path. ICD-10-CM and HCPCS walk the prefix hierarchy, stepping past an ICD-10-CM level padded with the placeholder X that is not itself a code (the parent of `S82.66XA` is `S82.66`); an ICD-10-PCS three-character table row's children are the complete codes that begin with it, and a complete code's parent is its table row; RxNorm concepts have no code hierarchy. A resolvable source with no edge in the requested direction is a successful empty result with a notice, not an error. A source code string that also exists in another bundled system carries `alsoInSystems` naming it, since only the resolved system's hierarchy was walked. Drug directions (RxNorm): `name_to_rxcui` (drug name → RXCUI; one name matches ingredients, combinations, and products alike, each hit tagged with its `conceptType`), `ndc_to_rxcui` and `rxcui_to_ndc` (NDC ↔ RXCUI; NDCs accepted hyphenated in an FDA segment configuration — 4-4-2, 5-3-2, 5-4-1, or the 11-digit 5-4-2 — or as bare 10/11 digits; `ndc_to_rxcui` names the product it decoded to and its `conceptType`), `rxcui_to_ingredients` and `rxcui_to_brands` (RXCUI → ingredient/brand RXCUIs, each with the target's RxNorm name and its `conceptType` — read that before counting a combination product's ingredients). Drug-class directions (RxClass): `rxcui_to_classes` (RXCUI → its classes: pharmacologic class, mechanism of action, physiologic effect, pharmacokinetics, therapeutic category, chemical structure, the diseases it may treat, prevent, diagnose, or induce or is contraindicated with, VA class, DEA controlled-substance schedule, CDC vaccine code; a drug product also carries its ingredients' classes, naming the ingredient in `via`, while DEA schedules are recorded only on drug products and VA classes almost only there, so map a product for those) and `class_to_rxcuis` (class ID → its direct member RXCUIs, each with its RxNorm name and `conceptType`). Each class hit carries `classType`, `source` (the RxClass source asserting it), and `relation` — a `ci_` relation is a contraindication, not an indication; narrow either direction with `classType`. Every result carries `source` provenance (which system or edge answered) so a chained call (e.g. into openfda with a resolved NDC) uses the right identifier. The `children`, `name_to_rxcui`, `rxcui_to_ndc`, `rxcui_to_classes`, and `class_to_rxcuis` directions can return large sets and paginate: a `nextCursor` in the response is passed back as `cursor` (with an optional `limit` page size) to walk the full set. A field the direction does not use is rejected with `field_not_applicable`: `limit` and `cursor` on the point directions, `classType` outside the class directions, and a `system` other than RXNORM on the drug and class directions.

Discovered
medcode_search_codes

Find US medical codes whose official descriptions match a described concept, via full-text search over the bundled index. Every search term must appear — matched first as a token prefix, then as a substring so inflected and compound forms are also found (a "neuropathy" search surfaces "mononeuropathy"/"polyneuropathy" siblings too, not only a standalone "neuropathy" token). An RxNorm concept matches on its drug name alone, never its term type (SBD, IN, …) — narrow by type with `chapter`. Filter by `system` (ICD10CM/ICD10PCS/HCPCS/RXNORM), `billableOnly` to exclude headers/categories and terminated HCPCS codes, and `chapter`. Use when you have a clinical description and need the code — the reverse of medcode_get_code. Results echo the resolved system per row for chaining, rank exact prefix matches ahead of substring-only matches with a deterministic tie-break, and disclose truncation with a `nextCursor`: pass it back as `cursor` to page through the full ranked set.

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Probe history

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