cms.home_health.search
Search 12 300+ Medicare-certified home health agencies across the US providing skilled nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech pathology services in patients' homes. Filter by state, city, ZIP code, agency name, and whether nursing care is offered. Returns CMS Certification Nu...
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What cms.home_health.search does on Apibase
AI agents call cms.home_health.search to retrieve information from Apibase without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
city | string | — | City or town name to filter agencies (partial match). Example: "Houston", "Phoenix". |
name | string | — | Partial agency name to search (case-insensitive substring match). Example: "Amedisys", "LHC Group", "Encompass". |
limit | integer | — | Maximum number of agencies to return (1–100, default 20). |
state | string | — | Two-letter US state abbreviation to filter home health agencies (e.g. TX, CA, NY). |
offset | integer | — | Number of results to skip for pagination (default 0). |
zip_code | string | — | 5-digit US ZIP code to filter home health agencies. |
offers_nursing | boolean | — | When true, filter to only agencies that offer skilled nursing care services. Skilled nursing covers wound care, injections, IV therapy, and post-surgery monitor |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why cms.home_health.search is rated Low
Retrieves public healthcare provider registry data with no side effects or modifications.
From the tool's definition Search 12,300+ Medicare-certified home health agencies; filter by state, city, ZIP, name; returns agency details, ratings.
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The rule that runs cms.home_health.search safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Apibase, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For cms.home_health.search, this is the rule to start with:
cms.home_health.search is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Apibase, apply this rule, and every cms.home_health.search call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about cms.home_health.search
Search 12 300+ Medicare-certified home health agencies across the US providing skilled nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech pathology services in patients' homes. Filter by state, city, ZIP code, agency name, and whether nursing care is offered. Returns CMS Certification Number (CCN), agency name, address, phone, ownership type, services offered (nursing, PT, OT), and CMS quality-of-patient-care star rating. Essential for patients transitioning from hospital to home, post-surgical recovery, or managing chronic conditions without nursing home admission. No auth — US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services public domain, unlimited free. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apibase MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
cms.home_health.search accepts 7 parameters: city, name, limit, state, offset, zip_code, offers_nursing. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Apibase MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for cms.home_health.search: 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 Apibase. Nothing to install.
cms.home_health.search is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the cms.home_health.search 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 cms.home_health.search. 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.
cms.home_health.search is provided by the Apibase MCP server (apibase-mcp-client). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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