# MedRates Muse connector

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## MedRates

Search and compare US hospital procedure prices and insurance-negotiated rates.

- Record: https://musedirectory.ai/connector/medrates
- Category: Health
- Developer: medrates.fyi (https://mcp.medrates.fyi)
- Muse status: Extra setup. Not in Muse's Connectors list yet. Muse can still use it: its page gives you a request to paste into Muse.
- Health: Working, 2160ms, checked 2026-09-28T09:31:24Z
- Endpoint: https://mcp.medrates.fyi/mcp
- Auth: No account needed; Pricing: unknown
- Screening: Screened, no issues found (2026-09-24T02:31:25Z)
- Source: Found in the official MCP Registry (fyi.medrates/mcp) https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=fyi.medrates%2Fmcp

Connects to US hospital price transparency data and insurance negotiated rates. Muse can search procedure costs by code or description, filter by location and insurance payer, get detailed price quotes by hospital, and look up insurance network coverage.

Example request: "Show me the cost of an MRI brain scan near me with my Blue Cross insurance."

How to connect: Not in Muse's Connectors list yet, but Muse can still use it. Paste this into Muse: "Use MedRates to help me. It is a free service with an MCP server at https://mcp.medrates.fyi/mcp. It does not need an API key. Ask me before you share anything with it." Muse asks before it shares anything with the app's site. Meta does not review apps used this way, so only use ones you trust. We tested this in the Muse app on September 24, 2026: Muse used an app's link directly this way and returned a live answer.

Tools:
- search: Search for medical procedure prices by code or description. Use this for direct lookups when you know a CPT/HCPCS code (e.g. "70551") or want to search by keyword (e.g. "MRI", "knee replacement"). For code-like queries → exact match on procedure code. For text queries → searches 
- search_nlp: Natural language search for medical procedure prices. Understands free-text queries like: - "MRI brain near San Jose with Blue Cross PPO" - "How much does a colonoscopy cost in Palo Alto?" - "knee replacement, no insurance, Mountain View" Extracts procedure, location, and insuran
- price_quote: Get price quotes for specific procedure codes, grouped by hospital. This is the most detailed pricing tool. Provide exact CPT/HCPCS codes and get per-hospital price estimates with totals. Supports insurance filtering and geographic search. Default location is San Jose, CA if no c
- hospitals: Find hospitals by name/city/state, or list a sample of hospitals. Returns hospital names, IDs, EINs, NPIs, and per-campus locations with addresses and coordinates. Use hospital IDs to filter other search tools. The result is capped (~100 hospitals) for performance, so the unfilte
- payer_network_info: Look up network-geography facts for a named insurance payer. Call this whenever an AI agent or user asks whether a plan covers out-of-state care, whether an insurer has nationwide coverage, or what BlueCard / PPO network mechanism the payer uses. Returns JSON with network_scope (
- payers: List available insurance payers and plan types. Returns all payer + plan combinations found in the hospital price data. Optionally filter to payers available at a specific hospital. Use the payer names and plan types from this list as inputs to the search_nlp and price_quote tool

Screening checks:
- MCP handshake: pass (Answered in 518ms)
- Domain against threat feeds (Cloudflare security DNS): pass (mcp.medrates.fyi not flagged)
- Published packages against the OSV malicious-package database: n/a (No npm or PyPI package published)
- Hidden instructions or invisible characters in tool text: pass (6 tools read, nothing found)
- Inputs asking for passwords, card numbers or seed phrases: pass (None found)
- Domain and redirects: pass (No redirects off the domain)
- AI review of purpose and tool behavior: pass (No concerns)