# `io.github.cyanheads/npi-providers-mcp-server` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.cyanheads/npi-providers-mcp-server
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.cyanheads/npi-providers-mcp-server
- Version: 0.4.1 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.cyanheads (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http), local (npm)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/cyanheads/npi-providers-mcp-server
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:28:53.733Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Search NPPES providers and resolve NUCC specialty codes via MCP over STDIO or Streamable HTTP.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:16:37.319Z over streamable-http.

**3 tools: 3 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 0 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 3 | allow |

## Findings

- **info** The word "credentials" in `npi_get_provider` ([credentials-mention](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#credentials-mention))

```untrusted-server-text
The description mentions "credential".

description: "...ions also carry their mailing address); credential, sex, sole-proprietor flag; enumeration..."
```


## Only reads (3)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `npi_get_provider`

- The name "npi_get_provider" says "get": a word for reading.
- Findings: info credentials-mention

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch the NPPES record for one or more NPI numbers (up to 10 per call). Decodes an NPI from a claim, prescription, or another health data source into the provider's professional-practice profile: every taxonomy with its primary flag, license number and state; practice addresses with phone and fax (only LOCATION rows are kept for individual providers, so their mailing address is withheld; organizations also carry their mailing address); credential, sex, sole-proprietor flag; enumeration and last-updated dates; active/deactivated status; secondary identifiers (Medicaid, etc.); and FHIR/Direct endpoints. Each NPI must be 10 digits with a valid check digit (its last digit); an NPI failing the check digit lands in invalid and is never looked up. Reports partial success: valid NPIs with no registry record (deactivated or never enumerated) land in notFound, while NPIs whose lookup hit an upstream error (registry unavailable, timeout) land in errored — kept distinct from confirmed misses — rather than failing the whole call.
```

### `npi_lookup_taxonomy`

- The name "npi_lookup_taxonomy" says "lookup": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Resolve and browse the NUCC Healthcare Provider Taxonomy — the specialty code set NPPES uses — fully offline (bundled). Mode `resolve` turns a plain-language specialty (e.g. "cardiologist", "heart doctor") into matching active taxonomy entries, excluding codes NUCC marks inactive; mode `get` returns the full entry for an exact code, including NUCC's Notes; mode `browse` walks the hierarchy (grouping → classification → specialization), optionally filtered by grouping and by NPI section (Individual/NPI-1 vs Non-Individual/NPI-2). Every entry carries its status, and an inactive code names its replacement when NUCC gives one; `get` and `browse` still return inactive codes. A resolved entry's specialization, or its classification when specialization is absent, maps directly to npi_search_providers.taxonomy_description.
```

### `npi_search_providers`

- The name "npi_search_providers" says "search": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Search the NPPES NPI registry for individual practitioners and healthcare organizations by name, organization name, location, provider type, and specialty. Plain-language specialty terms (e.g. "cardiologist", "pediatric cardiologist") resolve through the bundled NUCC taxonomy; the top match's specialization or classification becomes taxonomy_description, and all resolved candidates are returned in metadata. Location belongs in the dedicated city/state/postal_code inputs, not inside specialty. Each provider row includes the NPI, name, primary specialty, city/state/ZIP, type, and active/deactivated status; the NPI is the input for npi_get_provider when the full record is needed. At least one search criterion is required, and the registry rejects state-only searches. When city/state/postal_code are given, only practice addresses are searched, never mailing addresses: a provider is returned only when its primary practice location or one of its other practice locations matches all of them. A provider kept on another practice location names it in matchedLocation. Name searches also match former and other names, sorted by current name; such a row names the matching name in matchedOtherName. The registry never reports a true match total, and one search reaches only its first 1200 matches: a full page names the next in nextPage, and the terminal window (skip 1000, limit 200) returns continuationPostalCodes, postal_code prefixes that continue the search.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `npi-providers`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__npi-providers__npi_search_providers",
      "mcp__npi-providers__npi_get_provider",
      "mcp__npi-providers__npi_lookup_taxonomy"
    ],
    "ask": [],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```