# medprice.ai

> Democratizing access to medical markets — real hospital procedure pricing, surfaced through AI assistants via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

medprice.ai provides real hospital charge data for medical procedures, across a large and growing network of hospitals nationwide — see https://medprice.ai/hospitals for the live, current, full directory grouped by state.

## What it does

- Returns min, max, average, and median costs for any procedure by billing code, for a specific hospital
- Website pages at https://medprice.ai/codes/{codeType}/{code} (e.g. https://medprice.ai/codes/CPT/27447) compare pricing for one billing code across every hospital in the network that reports it
- Data covers both inpatient and outpatient procedures
- Tracks costs across multiple payment methodologies (case rate, fee schedule, per diem, percent of billed charges, etc.)
- Accessible via two MCP tools: list_hospitals and get_hospital_chargemaster_cost

## How to connect

### Claude Code
```
claude mcp add --transport http mcp-medprice-ai https://mcp.medprice.ai/mcp
```

### OpenAI Codex
```
codex mcp add medprice-ai --url https://mcp.medprice.ai/mcp
```

### OpenAI app listing
Open the official medprice.ai listing in ChatGPT's Plugin Directory:
https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6a4d477c3fe0819182f242110de5ff14

Select Connect if available, complete sign-in or OAuth, then use the app in chat with @ mentions or by selecting + and then More. OpenAI has migrated app discovery to the Plugin Directory, and availability can depend on plan, workspace settings, role, and region.

### Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)
```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "medprice-ai": {
      "url": "https://mcp.medprice.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Example queries

- "What hospitals does medprice.ai cover?"
- "What does Medical City Alliance charge for a knee replacement?"
- "How much does an MRI brain with contrast cost at Trinity Medical Center?"
- "Compare knee replacement costs across all hospitals in the network"
- "What is the average cost of CPT 99213 at University of Iowa Health Care?"
- "What does Meriter Hospital charge for a knee replacement under a fee schedule?"

## MCP tools

### list_hospitals
Returns the supported hospitals with their hospital_id, EIN, name, locations, last_updated_on, and revision history (with per-revision has_payer_data). Call this first to discover a hospital's hospital_id.
Parameters:
- page_size: (optional) maximum number of hospitals to return. Defaults to 20, capped at 100.
- page_token: (optional) opaque token from a previous list_hospitals response. Omit for the first page.

### get_hospital_chargemaster_cost
Looks up cost stats for a billing code at a single hospital.
Parameters:
- hospital_id: (required) opaque hospital identifier from list_hospitals.
- code_type: (required) code system the code belongs to, e.g. "APR-DRG", "CDM", "CPT", "HCPCS", "MS-DRG", "RC". Hospitals may support additional proprietary code types not listed here.
- code: (required) the procedure code (e.g. "27447", "70553")
- methodology: (optional) filter by pricing methodology. Valid values:
  - "case rate" — flat fee per case regardless of services used
  - "fee schedule" — fixed price per individual service
  - "per diem" — daily rate for inpatient stays
  - "percent of total billed charges" — payer pays a percentage of the hospital's billed amount
  - "other" — other methodologies
  - Omit to aggregate costs across all methodologies (recommended for general queries)

## Links

- Website: https://medprice.ai
- Full hospital directory (grouped by state): https://medprice.ai/hospitals
- Cross-hospital pricing comparison by billing code: https://medprice.ai/codes/{codeType}/{code}
- MCP server: https://mcp.medprice.ai/mcp