CareRanks Data

CMS quality ratings, payer-negotiated prices, and clinician data for 41K+ US healthcare facilities.

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What it can do

    What data it sees

    Do you need an account

    No: the server works without sign-in

    CMS quality ratings, payer-negotiated prices, and clinician data for 41K+ US healthcare facilities.

    How to connect

    How to connect CareRanks Data to Claude

    The server address to paste into Claude settings:

    https://careranks.com/mcp

    1. Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
    2. Go to Settings → Connectors.
    3. Click Add custom connector.
    4. Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
    5. In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.

    Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.

    Authorization

    After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.

    How to connect CareRanks Data to ChatGPT

    The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:

    https://careranks.com/mcp

    1. Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
    2. Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
    3. Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
    4. Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
    5. Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
    6. In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.

    OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.

    Authorization

    On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.

    How to connect CareRanks Data to Cursor

    The server address to paste into Cursor settings:

    https://careranks.com/mcp

    Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.

    Manually:

    1. In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
    2. Paste the JSON copied below into ~/.cursor/mcp.json (per project: .cursor/mcp.json in the repo root).
    3. Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.

    Authorization

    If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.

    Server tool list (5)

    Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.

    search_facilitiesSearch 41K+ US facilities (hospitals, nursing homes, home-health agencies, dialysis centers, health systems) by name and/or city, optionally filtered by state and type. Returns ids usable with the other tools plus capability flags.
    get_facilityLook up one facility by {type, id}. Returns the index record plus canonical URLs and which detail tools work for it. Hospital ids are CMS CCNs.
    get_hospital_pricesPayer-negotiated rates parsed from a hospital's federally required machine-readable file. Without `drg`: a per-DRG summary (payer count, min/median/max) across every DRG in the file. With `drg` (digits; zero-padded automatically): the individual payer-by-payer rates for that DRG. Available for ~2,060 hospitals (prices_tool_available flag).
    get_hospital_cliniciansClinicians affiliated with a hospital (CMS data): name, specialty, Medicare procedure volumes, Open Payments totals. Available for ~4,570 hospitals (clinicians_tool_available flag). Filter matches name or specialty.
    get_facility_profileStructured summary for any facility; for hospitals the full profile markdown (quality measures, ratings context) is returned AS THE TEXT CONTENT BLOCK, with metadata (truncation flag, full URL) in structuredContent. max_chars bounds the markdown body.