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RateCard Health MCP

A free, read-only MCP server providing AI agents with access to healthcare B2B trade-publication advertising data, including publication details, price bands, and the 2026 price index aggregates.

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Endpoint and access

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RateCard Health MCP logo, by RateCard HealthVendor evidenceStreamable HTTPNo sign-inEndpoint checked 2026-11-02Operated by RateCard Health
MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP)
https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp
Vendor documentation

What its tools do

5 tools, grouped by the hints the server advertises. Hints are self-declared, not verified behavior.

Read-only (5)

5 of 5 have a description · 5 of 5 declare behavior hints · 1 of 3 with parameters document them all

Checks and signals

Each line is separate evidence, not a trust score.

  • Passed Endpoint answered the live check ·
  • Passed Official MCP Registry namespace is tied to ratecardhealth.com ·
  • Passed Endpoint is on the registry namespace domain ·
  • Availability 1 of 1 checks passed in 30 days

What you can do with it

  • Search for healthcare publications by category or format
  • Retrieve specific publication details and media kit links
  • Get aggregated 2026 healthcare advertising price index data
  • Download a free 10-row sample of rate card data

Source and maintenance

Vendor evidenceRegistry 1.0.0
mcp-registry: com.ratecardhealth/rate-cards@1.0.0Project website

Protocol and capabilities

Server
ratecardhealth 1.0.0
MCP protocol negotiated in check
2025-06-18
Tools
5 advertised
Resources
Not advertised
Resource templates
Not advertised
Prompts
Not advertised
Server-advertised capabilities
{
  "tools": {
    "listChanged": false
  }
}

Server-provided instructions

Untrusted server output shown for inspection. It is not Koskamo guidance and is excluded from knowledge search.

Read-only access to RateCard Health public data: healthcare B2B trade-publication ad rate cards (price bands), the 2026 price index (aggregates) and the free 10-row sample. Exact prices for all rows require the paid dataset: https://www.creem.io/payment/prod_1rX1CHWqts6KIgDD5lAk9f

Tools

5 advertised

search_publications — Search healthcare B2B publications
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

Search the RateCard Health index of healthcare B2B trade publications, association e-newsletters and journals that publish advertising rate cards. Filter by category (e.g. dental, pharmacy, nursing, health IT), format (e-newsletter, print, dedicated email) and/or a free-text query (name, publisher, audience). Returns name, publisher, category, format, stated circulation/open rate, entry ad price BAND (exact only for the 10 free-sample rows) and the public page URL.

search_publications input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 58,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Max results (default 20)"
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Free text matched against publication name, publisher, audience and sub-vertical"
    },
    "format": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Format group: e-newsletter, print, dedicated-email"
    },
    "category": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Category name or slug: clinical-laboratory, dental, health-it, hospital-operations-administration, nursing, pharmacy, physicians-medical-practice, public-health"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
search_publications annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
get_publication — Get one publication
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

Public details for one publication: publisher, audience, circulation, open rate/CTR, entry ad unit with price band, names of other ad units, rate-card year, last verified date, official media kit link and page URL. Look up by slug or (partial) name.

get_publication input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "name_or_slug"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "name_or_slug": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
get_publication annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
get_price_index — 2026 Healthcare B2B Advertising Price Index
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

Aggregate ad-price benchmarks (CC BY 4.0) across healthcare B2B rate cards: median/quartile entry prices and derived CPMs (rounded, or banded; medians only for groups with 5+ rate cards), by format, category and price band. Optionally filter by group_type (all, format, category, entry_price_band) or group name.

get_price_index input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "group": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "e.g. \"Nursing\", \"E-newsletter\", \"Print\""
    },
    "group_type": {
      "enum": [
        "all",
        "format",
        "category",
        "entry_price_band"
      ],
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
get_price_index annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
get_free_sample — Free 10-row sample
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

The 10 free sample rows of the RateCard Health database (full fields, exact prices) — the same rows as the public sample CSV.

get_free_sample input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {},
  "additionalProperties": false
}
get_free_sample annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
list_categories — List categories and formats
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

List the publication categories and format groups covered, with counts and page URLs.

list_categories input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {},
  "additionalProperties": false
}
list_categories annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}

Prompts

Not advertised

No prompt definitions available.

Resources

Not advertised

No resource definitions available.

90-day uptime

A lightweight connection check about every six hours, sampled on hosts with many listings. It shows the server answered, not that its tools work.

Too few checks for a percentage yet (5 of 5 answered).

  1. 2026-11-02: 3 of 3 checks answered
  2. 2026-11-03: 2 of 2 checks answered

30-day availability

Aggregated from read-only remote checks; this is not a tool-execution or security guarantee.

Successful checks
1 of 1 (100%)
Average latency
508 ms
95th percentile latency
508 ms

Maintenance history

Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.

  • · probe · passed · 508 ms · metadata changed · 5 tool(s)

Connect from your client

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This server is operated by the named third party. Listing and endpoint checks are not an endorsement or a security audit. Review the operator's permissions, terms, and data handling before connecting. How listings are checked and corrected.

Claude Code

Run this once in a terminal. It registers the remote server. Use --scope project to write .mcp.json for the repo.
Claude Code configuration
claude mcp add --transport http ratecard-health-mcp https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp

Codex

Run this once. Codex stores MCP servers in ~/.codex/config.toml (or .codex/config.toml in a trusted project).
Codex configuration
codex mcp add ratecard-health-mcp --url https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp

Cursor

Merge this server into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, then enable ratecard-health-mcp in your MCP settings.
Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ratecard-health-mcp": {
      "url": "https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cline

Merge this into cline_mcp_settings.json (Cline → MCP Servers → Configure).
Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ratecard-health-mcp": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp",
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Merge this server into .vscode/mcp.json. Use MCP: List Servers to start ratecard-health-mcp and inspect its tools.
VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "ratecard-health-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Gemini CLI

Run this once. It writes .gemini/settings.json in the current project; pass --scope user for ~/.gemini/settings.json.
Gemini CLI configuration
gemini mcp add --transport http ratecard-health-mcp https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp

Claude Desktop

Merge this into claude_desktop_config.json (macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\), then restart Claude Desktop.
Claude Desktop configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ratecard-health-mcp": {
      "url": "https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

Merge this into ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json, then refresh MCP in Cascade. Windsurf remote servers use serverUrl, not url.
Windsurf configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ratecard-health-mcp": {
      "serverUrl": "https://ratecardhealth.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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