MedRates

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 co

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

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 coo

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 unfiltered

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 ('n

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 tools