open_payments_research
Search Open Payments RESEARCH payments -- clinical research grants and study funding from pharma/device companies to doctors. Separate dataset from general payments.
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What open_payments_research does on Livedatalink
AI agents use open_payments_research to create or update resources in Livedatalink, usually the action step of a workflow, after the agent has gathered context. Every call changes real data in your Livedatalink environment.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
year | string | — | Program year (auto-discovers latest if omitted, e.g. '2024') |
limit | number | — | Max rows (default 20, max 100) |
state | string | — | Two-letter state code (e.g. 'CA', 'TX') |
doctor | string | — | Doctor last name (case-insensitive) |
company | string | — | Manufacturer/GPO name (partial match), e.g. 'Pfizer', 'Stryker', 'Johnson & Johnson' |
specialty | string | — | Medical specialty (partial), e.g. 'Cardiology', 'Orthopaedic' |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why open_payments_research is rated Medium
An AI agent can call open_payments_research faster than any human can review: one bad instruction and it creates or modifies resources in Livedatalink by the hundred, each call as confident as the last.
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The rule that runs open_payments_research safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Livedatalink, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For open_payments_research, this is the rule to start with:
open_payments_research stays usable, but capped: an agent stuck in a loop can't make hundreds of changes a minute. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Livedatalink, apply this rule, and every open_payments_research call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about open_payments_research
Search Open Payments RESEARCH payments -- clinical research grants and study funding from pharma/device companies to doctors. Separate dataset from general payments. It is categorised as a Write tool in the Livedatalink MCP Server, which means it can create or modify data. Consider rate limits to prevent runaway writes.
open_payments_research accepts 6 parameters: year, limit, state, doctor, company, specialty. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Livedatalink MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for open_payments_research: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Livedatalink. Nothing to install.
open_payments_research is a Write tool with medium risk. Write tools should be rate-limited to prevent accidental bulk modifications.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the open_payments_research rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for open_payments_research. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
open_payments_research is provided by the Livedatalink MCP server (https://livedatalink.ai/mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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