{
  "name": "medicare-geographic-variation-mcp",
  "title": "HealthMesh · Medicare Geographic Variation MCP",
  "version": "0.1.1",
  "description": "CMS Medicare Geographic Variation Public Use File (Original Medicare / fee-for-service, 2014-2024) for the nation, states and counties: beneficiaries, MA participation rate, demographics, total and standardized (price-adjusted) Medicare payment per capita, spending and use by service line (inpatient, outpatient, SNF, IRF, LTCH, home health, hospice, E&M, procedures, tests, imaging, DME, dialysis, FQHC/RHC, ambulance), IP stays and ER visits per 1,000, readmission rate and PQI preventable hospitalization rates. Area profiles, rankings/comparisons and multi-year trends with CAGR, live from data.cms.gov.",
  "healthmesh_domain": "Health Spending & Economics",
  "datasets": [
    "SPEND-03"
  ],
  "mcp_endpoint": "https://medicare-geographic-variation.healthmesh.ai/mcp",
  "transport": "Streamable HTTP (stateless, JSON responses)",
  "authorization": "none",
  "auth_mode": "off",
  "docs": "https://github.com/HendrikK/healthmesh/tree/main/servers/medicare-geographic-variation-mcp#readme",
  "contact": "hendrik.kleine@gmail.com",
  "data_source": {
    "name": "CMS Medicare Geographic Variation Public Use File - by National, State & County (Original Medicare, 2014-2024), live via the data.cms.gov data-api",
    "url": "https://data.cms.gov/summary-statistics-on-use-and-payments/medicare-geographic-comparisons/medicare-geographic-variation-by-national-state-county",
    "license": "U.S. Government work (public)",
    "refresh": "Live API (6 h edge cache); weekly GitHub Actions check for a new dataset version"
  },
  "tools": [
    {
      "name": "geovar_get_area_profile",
      "title": "Medicare Geographic Variation area profile",
      "description": "Returns Medicare Geographic Variation PUF measures (Original Medicare / FFS) for the nation, a state or a county and year: beneficiaries (total, FFS, MA), MA participation rate, demographics, actual and standardized Medicare payment per capita, service-line standardized spending, IP stays and ER visits per 1,000, readmission rate. With include_all_measures=true returns all ~240 columns (all service lines, PQI rates). National/state rows also exist for age_level <65 and 65+."
    },
    {
      "name": "geovar_compare_areas",
      "title": "Rank states or counties on a Geographic Variation measure",
      "description": "Ranks states (or the counties of one state, or all US counties) on one Medicare Geographic Variation measure for a year, numerically (suppressed '*' values excluded and counted). Returns rank, value, beneficiaries and the national value for reference."
    },
    {
      "name": "geovar_get_trend",
      "title": "Geographic Variation multi-year trend",
      "description": "Returns a 2014-latest series for one measure and area (nation, state or county) with year-over-year change and CAGR between the first and last non-suppressed years."
    },
    {
      "name": "geovar_describe_dataset",
      "title": "Describe the Medicare Geographic Variation dataset",
      "description": "Lists the data.cms.gov dataset, levels, years, age levels and all measure columns with units."
    }
  ]
}