# io.github.cyanheads/medical-codes-mcp-server

> Offline US medical code lookup and crosswalk — ICD-10-CM/PCS, HCPCS Level II, RxNorm. Keyless.

- name: io.github.cyanheads/medical-codes-mcp-server
- version: 0.4.1
- connection class: R0 (autonomous)
- trust: 94/100
- quality: 81/100 (good)
- owner: not claimed
- descriptor: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/io.github.cyanheads%2Fmedical-codes-mcp-server
- tools: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/io.github.cyanheads%2Fmedical-codes-mcp-server/tools

**An agent can connect right now, no human step.** Remote endpoint, no authentication, reachable on the last probe.

## Connection (mcpServers)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "medical-codes-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://medical-codes.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```


## Trust

- hygiene: 100
- liveness: 100
- freshness: 100
- provenance: 80
- drivers: +repository +namespace-matches-repo +reachable +uptime-100% +updated-12d-ago
- Derived from observable signals (official registry feed and our own credential-free probes); no code audit performed.

## Quality 81/100 (good)

### protocol: 88 (weight 25)

- pass `protocol.modern`: supports 2026-07-28 (server/discover)
- pass `protocol.stateless`: answers without a session
- pass `protocol.transport`: streamable HTTP
- warn `protocol.list_ttl`: tools/list declares ttlMs 0, so clients re-fetch it on every use

### authorization: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `auth.prm`, `auth.as_metadata`, `auth.cimd`: no remote uses OAuth
- n/a `auth.secret_in_url`: no templated URL

### tool hygiene: 79 (weight 30)

- pass `tools.descriptions`: every tool has a description
- warn `tools.description_length`: 2 tools have descriptions over 1,024 characters, which crowds the context
- pass `tools.schemas`: every tool has an object input schema
- pass `tools.annotations`: 6 of 6 tools declare readOnlyHint or destructiveHint
- fail `tools.directory_hints`: no tool declares all four of readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint; missing: medcode_search_codes (destructiveHint); medcode_check_code (destructiveHint); medcode_map_codes (destructiveHint); …
- pass `tools.token_cost`: about 3,627 tokens to load every tool
- pass `tools.api_dump`: tools are not a one-to-one API dump

### stability: 75 (weight 15)

- warn `stability.changes`: 6 tool changes in 30 days
- pass `stability.rug_pull`: no tool changed its meaning under the same name

### dependencies: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `deps.known_vulns`, `deps.mcp_sdk_version`, `deps.resolvable`: deps.dev does not know @cyanheads/medical-codes-mcp-server@0.4.1, @cyanheads/medical-codes-mcp-server@0.4.1

- tools: 6, about 3,627 tokens to load them all
- tool set hash: e769322485f460b4134c362adc2fe211
- tools last changed: 2026-09-24T22:30:06.000Z
- badge: [![protogrid quality](https://protogrid.dev/badge/io.github.cyanheads/medical-codes-mcp-server.svg)](https://protogrid.dev/servers/io.github.cyanheads/medical-codes-mcp-server)
- Checks run on what our credential-free, read-only probes observe; tools are never called and no code audit is performed.

### Tool changes

- 2026-09-24 `medcode_list_systems` changed (title, description, outputSchema)
  - before: List the bundled US medical code systems with their release identifiers, effective dates, and code counts. Confirms which ICD-10-CM fiscal year, ICD-10-PCS fiscal year, HCPCS Level II release, and RxNorm normalized set are active before acting on any decode, search, or crosswalk result. The corpus is offline and built at package-build time — this call reports exactly which release is baked into the running server. ICD-10-CM/PCS are the US clinical modifications, not the ICD-10/ICD-11 base.
  - after: List the bundled US medical code systems with their release identifiers, effective dates, and code counts, and the RxClass drug-class layer the class crosswalks read, with each source’s version. Confirms which ICD-10-CM fiscal year, ICD-10-PCS fiscal year, HCPCS Level II release, RxNorm normalized set, and RxClass sources are active before acting on any decode, search, or crosswalk result. The corpus is offline and built at package-build time — this call reports exactly which release is baked into the running server. ICD-10-CM/PCS are the US clinical modifications, not the ICD-10/ICD-11 base.
- 2026-09-24 `medcode_browse_hierarchy` changed (title, outputSchema)
- 2026-09-24 `medcode_map_codes` changed (title, description, inputSchema, outputSchema)
  - before: Crosswalk a US medical code or drug across systems and within a hierarchy. Hierarchy directions: `parents` and `children` walk a code's prefix hierarchy one level per call — immediate parent/children only (depth-1); call iteratively for the full ancestor or descendant path (ICD-10-CM/HCPCS; ICD-10-PCS codes have no prefix parent). A resolvable source with no edge in the requested direction is a successful empty result with a notice, not an error. A source code string that also exists in another bundled system carries `alsoInSystems` naming it, since only the resolved system's hierarchy was walked. Drug directions (RxNorm): `name_to_rxcui` (drug name → RXCUI), `ndc_to_rxcui` and `rxcui_to_ndc` (NDC ↔ RXCUI; NDCs accepted hyphenated in an FDA segment configuration — 4-4-2, 5-3-2, 5-4-1, or the 11-digit 5-4-2 — or as bare 10/11 digits; `ndc_to_rxcui` names the product it decoded to), `rxcui_to_ingredients` and `rxcui_to_brands` (RXCUI → ingredient/brand RXCUIs, each with the target's RxNorm name and its `conceptType` — read that before counting a combination product's ingredients). Every result carries `source` provenance (which system or edge answered) so a chained call (e.g. into openfda with a resolved NDC) uses the right identifier. The `children`, `name_to_rxcui`, and `rxcui_to_ndc` directions can return large sets and paginate: a `nextCursor` in the response is passed back as `cursor` (with an optional `limit` page size) to walk the full set; the point directions ignore both.
  - after: Crosswalk a US medical code or drug across systems and within a hierarchy. Hierarchy directions: `parents` and `children` walk a code's prefix hierarchy one level per call — immediate parent/children only (depth-1); call iteratively for the full ancestor or descendant path (ICD-10-CM/HCPCS; ICD-10-PCS codes have no prefix parent, and RxNorm concepts no code hierarchy). A resolvable source with no edge in the requested direction is a successful empty result with a notice, not an error. A source code string that also exists in another bundled system carries `alsoInSystems` naming it, since only the resolved system's hierarchy was walked. Drug directions (RxNorm): `name_to_rxcui` (drug name → RXCUI), `ndc_to_rxcui` and `rxcui_to_ndc` (NDC ↔ RXCUI; NDCs accepted hyphenated in an FDA segment configuration — 4-4-2, 5-3-2, 5-4-1, or the 11-digit 5-4-2 — or as bare 10/11 digits; `ndc_to_rxcui` names the product it decoded to), `rxcui_to_ingredients` and `rxcui_to_brands` (RXCUI → ingredient/brand RXCUIs, each with the target's RxNorm name and its `conceptType` — read that before counting a combination product's ingredients). Drug-class directions (RxClass): `rxcui_to_classes` (RXCUI → its classes: pharmacologic class, mechanism of action, physiologic effect, pharmacokinetics, therapeutic category, chemical structure, the diseases it may treat, prevent, diagnose, or induce or is contraindicated with, VA class, DEA controlled-substance schedule, CDC vaccine code; a drug product also carries its ingredients' classes, naming the ingredient in `via`, while DEA schedules are recorded only on drug products and VA classes almost only there, so map a product for those) and `class_to_rxcuis` (class ID → its direct member RXCUIs, each with its RxNorm name and `conceptType`). Each class hit carries `classType`, `source` (the RxClass source asserting it), and `relation` — a `ci_` relation is a contraindication, not an indication; narrow either direction with `classType`. Every result carries `source` provenance (which system or edge answered) so a chained call (e.g. into openfda with a resolved NDC) uses the right identifier. The `children`, `name_to_rxcui`, `rxcui_to_ndc`, `rxcui_to_classes`, and `class_to_rxcuis` directions can return large sets and paginate: a `nextCursor` in the response is passed back as `cursor` (with an optional `limit` page size) to walk the full set. A field the direction does not use is rejected with `field_not_applicable`: `limit` and `cursor` on the point directions, `classType` outside the class directions, and a `system` other than RXNORM on the drug and class directions.
- 2026-09-24 `medcode_check_code` changed (title, description, outputSchema)
  - before: Validate whether a US medical code exists, is current, and is billable in the active bundled release. Returns a discriminated status — valid_billable, valid_not_billable, valid_header, or terminated — with a `whyNot` explaining non-billable and terminated cases (e.g. "valid ICD-10-CM category but not billable — submit a more specific child code"). This is the detail a coder needs before submitting a claim. Auto-detects the system from the code's shape; pass an explicit `system` to disambiguate. A non-billable or terminated code is a successful result with a whyNot, not an error — only a code that exists in no bundled system raises unknown_code. A code string that also exists in another bundled system carries `alsoInSystems` naming it, since the verdict applies only to the system that answered.
  - after: Validate whether a US medical code exists, is current, and is billable in the active bundled release. Returns a discriminated status — valid_billable, valid_not_billable, valid_header, valid, or terminated — with a `whyNot` explaining non-billable and terminated cases (e.g. "valid ICD-10-CM category but not billable — submit a more specific child code"). This is the detail a coder needs before submitting a claim. RxNorm has no billing concept, so a current RxNorm concept is `valid` with `billable: null` and no billing verdict. Auto-detects the system from the code's shape; pass an explicit `system` to disambiguate. A non-billable or terminated code is a successful result with a whyNot, not an error — only a code absent from the named or detected system raises unknown_code, which names the other bundled system when one holds the code. A code string that also exists in another bundled system carries `alsoInSystems` naming it, since the verdict applies only to the system that answered.
- 2026-09-24 `medcode_search_codes` changed (title, description, inputSchema, outputSchema)
  - before: Find US medical codes whose official descriptions match a described concept, via full-text search over the bundled index. Every search term must appear — matched first as a token prefix, then as a substring so inflected and compound forms are also found (a "neuropathy" search surfaces "mononeuropathy"/"polyneuropathy" siblings too, not only a standalone "neuropathy" token). Filter by `system` (ICD10CM/ICD10PCS/HCPCS/RXNORM), `billableOnly` to exclude headers/categories, and `chapter`. Use when you have a clinical description and need the code — the reverse of medcode_get_code. Results echo the resolved system per row for chaining, rank exact prefix matches ahead of substring-only matches with a deterministic tie-break, and disclose truncation with a `nextCursor`: pass it back as `cursor` to page through the full ranked set.
  - after: Find US medical codes whose official descriptions match a described concept, via full-text search over the bundled index. Every search term must appear — matched first as a token prefix, then as a substring so inflected and compound forms are also found (a "neuropathy" search surfaces "mononeuropathy"/"polyneuropathy" siblings too, not only a standalone "neuropathy" token). An RxNorm concept matches on its drug name alone, never its term type (SBD, IN, …) — narrow by type with `chapter`. Filter by `system` (ICD10CM/ICD10PCS/HCPCS/RXNORM), `billableOnly` to exclude headers/categories, and `chapter`. Use when you have a clinical description and need the code — the reverse of medcode_get_code. Results echo the resolved system per row for chaining, rank exact prefix matches ahead of substring-only matches with a deterministic tie-break, and disclose truncation with a `nextCursor`: pass it back as `cursor` to page through the full ranked set.
- 2026-09-24 `medcode_get_code` changed (title, description, inputSchema, outputSchema)
  - before: Decode one or more US medical codes to their official descriptions across ICD-10-CM (diagnoses), ICD-10-PCS (inpatient procedures), HCPCS Level II (supplies/drugs/services), and RxNorm (drugs, by RXCUI). Also decodes a National Drug Code (NDC) directly to its RxNorm product offline, tagged `source: "NDC"` — hyphenated in an FDA segment configuration (4-4-2, 5-3-2, 5-4-1, or the 11-digit 5-4-2) or as bare 10/11 digits; any other segment widths are malformed and stay unresolved. Auto-detects the system from each code's shape; pass an explicit `system` only when a value is genuinely ambiguous. Accepts 1–50 codes and returns partial success: resolved codes in `found`, unresolved in `notFound` with a per-code reason, so one bad code never fails the batch. Set `includeHierarchy` to attach each code's parent and immediate children (with a `childrenTruncated` flag when a code has more children than the cap returns — walk the full set via medcode_browse_hierarchy or medcode_map_codes). The resolved `system` is echoed on every result for chaining into medcode_map_codes or a billability check; a code string that also exists in another bundled system carries `alsoInSystems` naming it, so a single answer to a colliding code is never mistaken for the only one.
  - after: Decode one or more US medical codes to their official descriptions across ICD-10-CM (diagnoses), ICD-10-PCS (inpatient procedures), HCPCS Level II (supplies/drugs/services), and RxNorm (drugs, by RXCUI). Also decodes a National Drug Code (NDC) directly to its RxNorm product offline, tagged `source: "NDC"` — hyphenated in an FDA segment configuration (4-4-2, 5-3-2, 5-4-1, or the 11-digit 5-4-2) or as bare 10/11 digits; any other segment widths are malformed and stay unresolved. Auto-detects the system from each code's shape; pass an explicit `system` only when a value is genuinely ambiguous. Accepts 1–50 codes and returns partial success: resolved codes in `found`, unresolved in `notFound` with a per-code reason, so one bad code never fails the batch. Set `includeHierarchy` to attach each code's parent and immediate children (with a `childrenTruncated` flag when a code has more children than the cap returns — walk the full set via medcode_browse_hierarchy or medcode_map_codes). The resolved `system` is echoed on every result for chaining into a billability check or a medcode_map_codes parents/children walk; a bare integer that resolves nowhere is named as a possible CPT / HCPCS Level I code, which is out of scope, except a bare 10/11-digit one, which is named as an NDC no bundled drug maps to; a code string that also exists in another bundled system carries `alsoInSystems` naming it, so a single answer to a colliding code is never mistaken for the only one.

Full history: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/io.github.cyanheads%2Fmedical-codes-mcp-server/changes

## Dependencies

- npm @cyanheads/medical-codes-mcp-server@0.4.1: unknown
- npm @cyanheads/medical-codes-mcp-server@0.4.1: unknown

Dependency graphs from deps.dev; advisories from OSV.dev, including the GitHub Advisory Database and the PyPI Advisory Database; all CC BY 4.0.

## Remotes

- https://medical-codes.caseyjhand.com/mcp (streamable-http, auth none, reachable true, uptime30d 1)

## Packages

- npm @cyanheads/medical-codes-mcp-server@0.4.1
- npm @cyanheads/medical-codes-mcp-server@0.4.1

## Tools (6)

- `medcode_browse_hierarchy`: Walk a US medical code system's hierarchy for discovery without a search term. With no `node`, returns the top-level entries (ICD-10-CM categories, HCPCS range buckets, or ICD-10-PCS first-axis values). With a `node`, returns its immediate children. ICD-10-CM and HCPCS use a prefix hierarchy (a shorter code is the parent of a longer one); ICD-10-PCS is axis-based — each of its 7 characters is an independent axis (section, body system, root operation, body part, approach, device, qualifier), but only the top-level Section axis is browsable (omit `node`): positions 2–7 are context-dependent on the preceding axis path and are not enumerable from a flat partial code. Lets an agent orient in an unfamiliar system or enumerate a category's specific codes. A large child set paginates: when the response carries a `nextCursor`, pass it back as `cursor` to fetch the next page.
- `medcode_check_code`: Validate whether a US medical code exists, is current, and is billable in the active bundled release. Returns a discriminated status — valid_billable, valid_not_billable, valid_header, valid, or terminated — with a `whyNot` explaining non-billable and terminated cases (e.g. "valid ICD-10-CM category but not billable — submit a more specific child code"). This is the detail a coder needs before submitting a claim. RxNorm has no billing concept, so a current RxNorm concept is `valid` with `billable: null` and no billing verdict. Auto-detects the system from the code's shape; pass an explicit `system` to disambiguate. A non-billable or terminated code is a successful result with a whyNot, not an error — only a code absent from the named or detected system raises unknown_code, which names the other bundled system when one holds the code. A code string that also exists in another bundled system carries `alsoInSystems` naming it, since the verdict applies only to the system that answered.
- `medcode_get_code`: Decode one or more US medical codes to their official descriptions across ICD-10-CM (diagnoses), ICD-10-PCS (inpatient procedures), HCPCS Level II (supplies/drugs/services), and RxNorm (drugs, by RXCUI). Also decodes a National Drug Code (NDC) directly to its RxNorm product offline, tagged `source: "NDC"` — hyphenated in an FDA segment configuration (4-4-2, 5-3-2, 5-4-1, or the 11-digit 5-4-2) or as bare 10/11 digits; any other segment widths are malformed and stay unresolved. Auto-detects the system from each code's shape; pass an explicit `system` only when a value is genuinely ambiguous. Accepts 1–50 codes and returns partial success: resolved codes in `found`, unresolved in `notFound` with a per-code reason, so one bad code never fails the batch. Set `includeHierarchy` to attach each code's parent and immediate children (with a `childrenTruncated` flag when a code has more children than the cap returns — walk the full set via medcode_browse_hierarchy or medcode_map_codes). The resolved `system` is echoed on every result for chaining into a billability check or a medcode_map_codes parents/children walk; a bare integer that resolves nowhere is named as a possible CPT / HCPCS Level I code, which is out of scope, except a bare 10/11-digit one, which is named as an NDC no bundled drug maps to; a code string that also exists in another bundled system carries `alsoInSystems` naming it, so a single answer to a colliding code is never mistaken for the only one.
- `medcode_list_systems`: List the bundled US medical code systems with their release identifiers, effective dates, and code counts, and the RxClass drug-class layer the class crosswalks read, with each source’s version. Confirms which ICD-10-CM fiscal year, ICD-10-PCS fiscal year, HCPCS Level II release, RxNorm normalized set, and RxClass sources are active before acting on any decode, search, or crosswalk result. The corpus is offline and built at package-build time — this call reports exactly which release is baked into the running server. ICD-10-CM/PCS are the US clinical modifications, not the ICD-10/ICD-11 base.
- `medcode_map_codes`: Crosswalk a US medical code or drug across systems and within a hierarchy. Hierarchy directions: `parents` and `children` walk a code's prefix hierarchy one level per call — immediate parent/children only (depth-1); call iteratively for the full ancestor or descendant path (ICD-10-CM/HCPCS; ICD-10-PCS codes have no prefix parent, and RxNorm concepts no code hierarchy). A resolvable source with no edge in the requested direction is a successful empty result with a notice, not an error. A source code string that also exists in another bundled system carries `alsoInSystems` naming it, since only the resolved system's hierarchy was walked. Drug directions (RxNorm): `name_to_rxcui` (drug name → RXCUI), `ndc_to_rxcui` and `rxcui_to_ndc` (NDC ↔ RXCUI; NDCs accepted hyphenated in an FDA segment configuration — 4-4-2, 5-3-2, 5-4-1, or the 11-digit 5-4-2 — or as bare 10/11 digits; `ndc_to_rxcui` names the product it decoded to), `rxcui_to_ingredients` and `rxcui_to_brands` (RXCUI → ingredient/brand RXCUIs, each with the target's RxNorm name and its `conceptType` — read that before counting a combination product's ingredients). Drug-class directions (RxClass): `rxcui_to_classes` (RXCUI → its classes: pharmacologic class, mechanism of action, physiologic effect, pharmacokinetics, therapeutic category, chemical structure, the diseases it may treat, prevent, diagnose, or induce or is contraindicated with, VA class, DEA controlled-substance schedule, CDC vaccine code; a drug product also carries its ingredients' classes, naming the ingredient in `via`, while DEA schedules are recorded only on drug products and VA classes almost only there, so map a product for those) and `class_to_rxcuis` (class ID → its direct member RXCUIs, each with its RxNorm name and `conceptType`). Each class hit carries `classType`, `source` (the RxClass source asserting it), and `relation` — a `ci_` relation is a contraindication, not an indication; narrow either direction with `classType`. Every result carries `source` provenance (which system or edge answered) so a chained call (e.g. into openfda with a resolved NDC) uses the right identifier. The `children`, `name_to_rxcui`, `rxcui_to_ndc`, `rxcui_to_classes`, and `class_to_rxcuis` directions can return large sets and paginate: a `nextCursor` in the response is passed back as `cursor` (with an optional `limit` page size) to walk the full set. A field the direction does not use is rejected with `field_not_applicable`: `limit` and `cursor` on the point directions, `classType` outside the class directions, and a `system` other than RXNORM on the drug and class directions.
- `medcode_search_codes`: Find US medical codes whose official descriptions match a described concept, via full-text search over the bundled index. Every search term must appear — matched first as a token prefix, then as a substring so inflected and compound forms are also found (a "neuropathy" search surfaces "mononeuropathy"/"polyneuropathy" siblings too, not only a standalone "neuropathy" token). An RxNorm concept matches on its drug name alone, never its term type (SBD, IN, …) — narrow by type with `chapter`. Filter by `system` (ICD10CM/ICD10PCS/HCPCS/RXNORM), `billableOnly` to exclude headers/categories, and `chapter`. Use when you have a clinical description and need the code — the reverse of medcode_get_code. Results echo the resolved system per row for chaining, rank exact prefix matches ahead of substring-only matches with a deterministic tie-break, and disclose truncation with a `nextCursor`: pass it back as `cursor` to page through the full ranked set.
