# Cms Open Payments

> CMS Open Payments, with annual dataset discovery through the official DKAN API.

- name: io.github.pipeworx-io/cms-open-payments
- version: 0.1.6
- connection class: R0 (autonomous)
- trust: 97/100
- quality: –/100 (not scored)
- owner: not claimed
- descriptor: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/io.github.pipeworx-io%2Fcms-open-payments
- tools: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/io.github.pipeworx-io%2Fcms-open-payments/tools

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

## Connection (mcpServers)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cms-open-payments": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/cms-open-payments/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```


## Trust

- hygiene: 100
- liveness: 99
- freshness: 100
- provenance: 90
- drivers: +repository +namespace-matches-repo +website +reachable +uptime-97% +updated-8d-ago
- Derived from observable signals (official registry feed and our own credential-free probes); no code audit performed.

## Quality –/100 (not scored)

Not scored: fewer than three checks apply, usually because no remote answered a credential-free probe or the server is a local package.

### protocol: 75 (weight 25)

- warn `protocol.modern`: newest supported version is 2025-03-26; 2026-07-28 not supported, older versions are deprecated until 2027-07-28
- n/a `protocol.stateless`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers
- pass `protocol.transport`: streamable HTTP
- n/a `protocol.list_ttl`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers

### 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: n/a (weight 30)

- n/a `tools.descriptions`, `tools.description_length`, `tools.schemas`, `tools.annotations`, `tools.directory_hints`, `tools.token_cost`, `tools.api_dump`: tool list unknown (behind auth, not probed, or empty)

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

- n/a `stability.changes`, `stability.rug_pull`: tool list unknown

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

- n/a `deps.known_vulns`, `deps.mcp_sdk_version`, `deps.resolvable`: no npm or PyPI package

- tools: unknown
- tools last changed: 2026-10-19T05:50:38.879Z
- badge: [![protogrid quality](https://protogrid.dev/badge/io.github.pipeworx-io/cms-open-payments.svg)](https://protogrid.dev/servers/io.github.pipeworx-io/cms-open-payments)
- Checks run on what our credential-free, read-only probes observe; tools are never called and no code audit is performed.

### Tool changes

- 2026-10-19 `open_payments_nature_breakdown` removed
  - Break down the bounded payment sample for one recipient, company, or product across years by reported nature of payment. Counts and dollars in the breakdown are sample statistics; annual total_matches remains the authoritative query count.
- 2026-10-19 `open_payments_compare_companies` removed
  - Compare 2–5 company-name queries across CMS Open Payments program years using authoritative match counts and clearly labeled bounded samples. This does not compare complete spend unless every matching row fits in the sample.
- 2026-10-19 `open_payments_company_history` removed
  - Build a cross-year CMS Open Payments history for a company-name substring. Annual counts are authoritative for that query; dollar figures cover only the returned bounded sample and company aliases may split or combine legal entities.
- 2026-10-19 `open_payments_recipient_history` removed
  - Build a cross-year CMS Open Payments history for an exact recipient NPI. Returns authoritative annual match counts plus bounded samples; sampled dollar totals are explicitly not full-dataset totals.
- 2026-10-19 `open_payments_research` removed
  - Search CMS research-payment records by company, recipient NPI, study name, or state for one program year. Amounts may represent funding routed through an institution and should not automatically be attributed as personal compensation.
- 2026-10-19 `open_payments_product` removed
  - Search general-payment records associated with a named drug, biologic, device, or medical supply across all five CMS product slots. Product association is reporting-entity supplied and does not prove the payment was exclusively for that product.
- 2026-10-19 `open_payments_company` removed
  - Search payments reported by a manufacturer or GPO in one CMS Open Payments program year. Company matching is a case-insensitive substring and may combine similarly named legal entities.
- 2026-10-19 `open_payments_physician` removed
  - Find CMS Open Payments records for a physician/non-physician practitioner by exact NPI in one program year. Returns the authoritative total match count plus a bounded payment sample; reported relationships do not imply misconduct. If you have a name rather than an NPI, resolve it first against the NPPES registry (npi_individual in the clinicaltables pack), or use open_payments_search with recipient_last_name + recipient_first_name.
- 2026-10-19 `open_payments_search` removed
  - THE source for pharma/device industry money to doctors — "payments from manufacturers to physicians", "which drug companies paid this doctor", "Sunshine Act data", "industry payments to hospitals". Search one CMS Open Payments program-year dataset using structured recipient, company, product, geography, payment-nature, and amount filters. CAPABILITY LIMIT, state it rather than guessing: this source can look up and filter but CANNOT rank ALL manufacturers by total spend ("which manufacturer paid the most" is not computable live — the 14M-row aggregation times out upstream); answer those by saying so and offering a named-company lookup (open_payments_company) instead. CMS publishes company-reported relationships; a payment does not imply wrongdoing or a conflict.
- 2026-10-19 `open_payments_top_companies` removed
  - Rank the drug and device manufacturers that paid US physicians and teaching hospitals the most in a program year — the "who spends the most on doctors" question. Returns each company with its total US dollars, payment count and how many distinct recipients it reached, ordered by spend. CMS publishes no aggregate and its live API cannot group over the 14-million-row payment table, so this reads a summary computed offline; the response states the program year and when the summary was refreshed. Payments are disclosures of transfers of value, not evidence of wrongdoing.

Full history: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/io.github.pipeworx-io%2Fcms-open-payments/changes

## Remotes

- https://gateway.pipeworx.io/cms-open-payments/mcp (streamable-http, auth none, reachable true, uptime30d 0.974359)

## Packages

_none_

## Tools (0)

_none observed_