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Loa Healthcare Pricing MCP Server

io.github.aanari/loacare-healthcare-pricing
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Loa Healthcare Pricing is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 12 tools. Last commit 29 Jul 2026.

Search source-labeled hospital prices, CPT codes, providers, and healthcare cost estimates.

Uptime history 39 hours of history · worst hour 0%
39 hours agonow
52.7%
Uptime 24h
48 of 91 checks
12
Tools
read from the server
381 ms
Response time
average over 24h
1
Stars
last commit 29 Jul 2026

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add loacare-healthcare-pricing --transport http https://www.loacare.com/api/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "loacare-healthcare-pricing": {
      "url": "https://www.loacare.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.loacare-healthcare-pricing]
url = "https://www.loacare.com/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "loacare-healthcare-pricing": {
      "url": "https://www.loacare.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "loacare-healthcare-pricing": {
      "url": "https://www.loacare.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 12

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

entity
get_entity_prices
Return source-labeled prices for a Loa hospital or provider entity slug using the shared resolver. Use search_entities first if the slug is unknown. Results include provenance and explicit unavailable rows for requested CPT codes with no current price.
get_entity_profile
Return one Loa hospital or provider entity profile by exact slug or entity_pages.id. Includes profile-field provenance so agents can distinguish source-file fields from Loa-reviewed overrides.
cpt
search_cpt_codes
Canonical code-lookup tool for this server. Search Loa's CPT/HCPCS index using exact codes, clinical terms, or consumer phrases. Use this first when the user does not already know the CPT code, before calling pricing tools.
entities
search_entities
Search Loa runtime hospital and provider entity pages by name or state. Use this before get_entity_prices when the user names a hospital or provider but does not know the exact Loa slug.
explain
explain_price_sources
Explain the source labels, provenance, confidence, and caveats behind Loa prices for one hospital or provider entity. Use this when an agent needs to tell a user why prices are MRF-published, Loa-reviewed, estimated, or unavailable.
hospital
get_hospital_pricing
Hospital-specific pricing tool for source-labeled Loa runtime data. Returns source-labeled Published MRF prices and Loa Verified Provider Price overlays for CPT codes, including cash/self-pay and payer-negotiated rates when available. Use this when comparing named hospitals or checking a quoted hospital price against available source rows.
hospitals
search_hospitals
Search Loa's hospital directory by name or location and return hospital IDs plus address details. Use the returned hospital_ids with get_hospital_pricing to fetch source-labeled Published MRF and reviewed overlay prices.
market
get_market_pricing
Preferred benchmark pricing tool. Returns market cash/self-pay and insurance-negotiated price summaries for CPT codes, aggregated from Loa's hospital price-transparency dataset. Use this when the user wants source-grounded regional or national market pricing rather than a single-hospital rate.
pricing
get_pricing_estimate
Quick directional estimate for one or more CPT codes. Prefers observed national market pricing derived from hospital price-transparency data, but falls back to a broad CPT-range heuristic when observed pricing is missing. Use this for a fast ballpark total. For source-grounded market benchmarks or hospital-specific source-labeled prices, prefer get_market_pricing or get_hospital_pricing.
providers
search_providers
Search public CMS NPI Registry data for clinicians and healthcare organizations by specialty, name, or location. Use returned provenance to understand the registry source and scope. Use this for provider lookup, not pricing.
submit
submit_entity_update_request
Submit a profile, listing, or price correction for Loa review without requiring a provider portal. This is the only mutating provider/entity tool. It requires OAuth, captures submitter and source evidence, records linked-provider status when available, and never changes public data until Loa approves the request.
suggest
suggest_procedures
Advisory helper that suggests likely CPT codes from a plain-English medical need. Uses Loa heuristics plus AI and is not authoritative or diagnostic. Use only when the user cannot name the procedure, then confirm candidates with search_cpt_codes before pricing them. Requires a LOA account.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://www.loacare.com/api/mcp streamable-http answering 798 ms 8 min ago

Loa Healthcare Pricing — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Loa Healthcare Pricing do?
It exposes 12 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: explain_price_sources, get_entity_prices, get_entity_profile, get_hospital_pricing, get_market_pricing, get_pricing_estimate and 6 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Loa Healthcare Pricing working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 48 of 91 checks got a reply (52.7%), average response time 381 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Loa Healthcare Pricing?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Loa Healthcare Pricing need an API key?
No. Loa Healthcare Pricing completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 12 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Loa Healthcare Pricing?
It answers our handshake in 381 ms on average, which is faster than 36% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Loa Healthcare Pricing open source?
Yes — 1 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.