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Description
Query US hospital price transparency data via the MedRates REST API. Search medical procedure prices, compare hospitals, filter by insurance plan and locatio...
Usage Guidance
This skill is an instruction-only client for data.medrates.fyi and appears coherent for price-lookup tasks. Before installing: verify you trust the domain (https://data.medrates.fyi), because queries will send any supplied location and payer details (potentially sensitive medical information) to that external API; check the SKILL.md's full 'Authentication' section or the service website for optional API key usage and whether you need to supply a token (the skill metadata does not declare any env vars). If you plan to look up real patient data, avoid sending identifying fields (name, SSN) and consider anonymizing locations (use zip codes rather than full addresses) or obtain patient consent. Finally, because this skill has no code files, static scanners had nothing to analyze — the runtime privacy risk is the network calls the SKILL.md instructs the agent to make.
Capability Analysis
Type: OpenClaw Skill
Name: medrates-fyi
Version: 1.0.1
The skill provides a legitimate interface for querying US hospital price transparency data via the MedRates REST API (data.medrates.fyi). The SKILL.md file contains standard API documentation, endpoint descriptions, and usage instructions for an AI agent to perform medical procedure price searches and comparisons. No indicators of data exfiltration, malicious execution, or prompt injection were found.
Capability Assessment
Purpose & Capability
Name/description match the SKILL.md: it documents HTTP endpoints on https://data.medrates.fyi, provides curl examples for searching prices and price-quote queries, and claims no required credentials for basic use. There are no unrelated binaries, extra cloud credentials, or surprising system-level demands.
Instruction Scope
Instructions are limited to querying the MedRates API (NLP search, price-quote, text search). They do not instruct reading local files or other system state. Note: the skill asks for user-supplied data such as latitude/longitude and payer/plan information—these can be sensitive (medical/PHI) and will be sent to the remote API; the SKILL.md references an 'Authentication' section for higher rate limits (not included in the excerpt) which could introduce optional token usage.
Install Mechanism
No install spec and no code files — instruction-only. This is low-risk from a code-installation perspective because nothing will be written to disk or fetched by the installer.
Credentials
The skill declares no required environment variables or credentials, which is consistent with the statement that no API key is required for basic use. However, the SKILL.md mentions an 'Authentication' section for higher rate limits; if that requires an API key/token it is not declared in the skill metadata. Optional auth would be reasonable, but the absence of declared optional env vars is a mild documentation inconsistency to be aware of.
Persistence & Privilege
always is false, no install writes, and the skill is user-invocable/default-invocation allowed. It does not request persistent privileges or modify other skill/system configs.
How to Use
- Make sure OpenClaw is installed (local or Docker)
- Run the install command in chat:
/install medrates-fyi - After installation, invoke the skill by name or use
/medrates-fyi - Provide required inputs per the skill's parameter spec and get structured output
Version History
v1.0.1
- Added plan_category filter to the price quote endpoint (`GET /api/price-quote`), supporting "Commercial", "Medicare", "Medicaid", or "Other".
- Price quote endpoint response now includes a `plan_category` field for negotiated/estimated-rate items when a payer is specified.
- Documentation updated to reflect new filtering and response field for plan category.
- No functional changes to endpoints or API structure beyond the new filter and response field.
v1.0.0
- Initial release of MedRates US hospital price transparency skill.
- Search and compare US hospital procedure prices by CPT/HCPCS code, insurance plan, and location.
- Natural language search for common medical pricing questions.
- Data covers US hospitals only (no clinics, ASCs, or independent imaging centers).
- No API key required; basic usage works without authentication.
- Includes endpoints for procedure search, hospital info, payer/plan lookup, and price comparisons.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is MedRates.fyi?
Query US hospital price transparency data via the MedRates REST API. Search medical procedure prices, compare hospitals, filter by insurance plan and locatio... It is an AI Agent Skill for Claude Code / OpenClaw, with 181 downloads so far.
How do I install MedRates.fyi?
Run "/install medrates-fyi" in the OpenClaw or Claude Code chat to install it in one step — no extra setup required.
Is MedRates.fyi free?
Yes, MedRates.fyi is completely free, licensed under MIT-0. You can download, install and use it at no cost.
Which platforms does MedRates.fyi support?
MedRates.fyi is cross-platform and runs anywhere OpenClaw / Claude Code is available (cross-platform).
Who created MedRates.fyi?
It is built and maintained by dimaosipa (@dimaosipa); the current version is v1.0.1.
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