name: Loa Healthcare Pricing API
description: >-
  Source-labeled U.S. healthcare price transparency API and MCP server. Provides hospital and provider entity search,
  source-labeled price rows, cross-entity price comparison by CPT/HCPCS, and a reviewed update-submission workflow. Data
  comes from 6,000+ hospital Machine Readable Files under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule plus CMS NPI
  Registry and Loa-reviewed provider submissions.
url: https://loa-healthcare-pricing-api.apievangelist.com/apis.yml
created: '2026-07-28'
modified: '2026-08-02'
specificationVersion: '0.21'
tags:
  - healthcare
  - price transparency
  - medical pricing
  - hospitals
  - providers
  - provider directory
  - hospital prices
  - CPT
  - HCPCS
  - MCP
  - agent-native
  - OpenAPI
  - llms.txt
apis:
  - name: Loa Healthcare Pricing REST API
    description: >-
      Versioned REST API for searching hospital/provider entities, retrieving source-labeled price rows, comparing
      prices by CPT code, and submitting reviewed corrections. Public reads require no key; optional metered provider
      API key via x-api-key header.
    humanURL: https://www.loacare.com/provider/docs
    baseURL: https://www.loacare.com/api/v1
    tags:
      - healthcare
      - price transparency
      - medical pricing
      - hospitals
      - providers
      - provider directory
      - hospital prices
      - CPT
      - HCPCS
      - MCP
      - agent-native
      - OpenAPI
      - llms.txt
    properties:
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/loa-healthcare-pricing-api-openapi.json
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://www.loacare.com/api/v1/openapi.json
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.loacare.com/provider/docs
      - type: APIsJSON
        url: https://www.loacare.com/apis.json
  - name: Loa Healthcare Pricing MCP Server
    description: >-
      Hosted/remote MCP server 'LOA Healthcare Pricing' v1.0.0 over Streamable HTTP with 12 tools for CPT search,
      procedure suggestions, provider/hospital search, pricing estimates, market pricing, entity profiles/prices, price
      source explanation, and update submission. Discovery is public; tool calls require OAuth 2.0.
    humanURL: https://www.loacare.com/mcp
    baseURL: https://www.loacare.com/api/mcp
    tags:
      - healthcare
      - price transparency
      - medical pricing
      - hospitals
      - providers
      - provider directory
      - hospital prices
      - CPT
      - HCPCS
      - MCP
      - agent-native
      - OpenAPI
      - llms.txt
    properties:
      - type: MCP
        url: https://www.loacare.com/api/mcp
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.loacare.com/mcp
      - type: LLMSTxt
        url: https://www.loacare.com/llms.txt
maintainers:
  - FN: Loa Engineering
    url: https://www.loacare.com/api-partnership
generated:
  by: apis.io/add
  model: claude-opus-4-8
  confidence: 95
  at: '2026-07-28T12:04:57.353Z'
x-evidence:
  verified: '2026-08-02'
  request: api-evangelist/loa-healthcare-pricing-api#1
  probes:
    - https://www.loacare.com/api/v1/openapi.json -> HTTP 200, OpenAPI 3.1.0, 6 paths / 6 ops / 19 schemas
    - https://www.loacare.com/apis.json -> HTTP 200, advertised example now uses q=
    - https://www.loacare.com/api/v1/entities/search?q=hospital&state=Texas&limit=1 -> HTTP 200, one Texas hospital
  resolved: >-
    The search-parameter mismatch flagged at profile generation — apis.json advertising query= while the
    OpenAPI defines q — was fixed by the provider and confirmed resolved. The stale note is removed from
    PROFILE.md.
  still_open: >-
    OpenAPI info.version is 0.1.0 while the document is OpenAPI 3.1.0. Left flagged; the provider did not
    claim to have changed it and it is still true.
  note: >-
    The OpenAPI is now held locally as well as referenced by URL. Advertised spec URLs across the catalog
    go stale, and a local copy is what the profile is actually built from.