Candid Health MCP Server
for AI Agents
Connect your AI agent to StackOne's Candid Health MCP server and give it 50 MCP tools out of the box. Auth, tool execution, and security all managed.
Coverage
50 Agent Actions
Agents can read, write, delete and run operations in Candid Health. Extend your agent's capabilities with custom actions.
Authentication
Agent Tool Authentication
Per-user OAuth in one call. Your Candid Health MCP server gets session-scoped tokens with zero credentials stored on your infra.
Agent Auth →Security
Agent Protection
Every Candid Health tool response scanned for prompt injection in milliseconds, with 88.7% accuracy, all running on CPU.
Prompt Injection Defense →Performance
Max Agent Context. Min Cost.
Free up to 96% of your agent's context window to enhance reasoning and reduce cost, on every Candid Health call.
Tools Discovery →What is the Candid Health MCP Server?
A Candid Health MCP server lets AI agents read and write Candid Health data through the Model Context Protocol, Anthropic's open standard for connecting LLMs to external tools. StackOne's Candid Health MCP server ships with 50 pre-built actions, fully extensible via the Connector Builder, plus managed authentication, prompt injection defense, observability, and agent execution runtime. Connect it from MCP clients like Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Goose, and VS Code, or from agent frameworks like OpenAI Agents SDK, LangChain, and Vercel AI SDK.
All Candid Health MCP Tools
Every StackOne action for Candid Health, ready for your agent. Read, write, delete and run operations, scoped to exactly what you need.
Appointments
- Create Appointment
Create a pre-encounter appointment for a patient with scheduling and eligibility metadata.
- Get Appointment
Retrieve a single appointment by its Candid appointment ID.
- Update Appointment
Update an appointment using optimistic concurrency via the next version number.
Charge Captures
- Create Charge Capture
Create a charge capture holding pre-billing charge data before encounter submission.
- List Charge Captures
List charge captures filtered by patient, bundle, status, service dates, or provider.
- Get Charge Capture
Retrieve a single charge capture by its Candid charge capture ID.
- Update Charge Capture
Update charge capture data or bundle assignment before aggregation.
Coverages
- Create Coverage
Create an insurance coverage record for a patient with payer, plan, subscriber, and benefits data.
- List Coverages
List coverages filtered by patient, payer, and status with cursor pagination.
- Get Coverage
Retrieve a single coverage record by its Candid coverage ID.
- Update Coverage
Update a coverage record using optimistic concurrency via the next version number.
Diagnosis
- Create Diagnosis
Attach an ICD diagnosis code to an existing encounter.
- Update Diagnosis
Update an existing diagnosis code, code type, name, or POA indicator.
Encounters
- Create Encounter
Create a professional encounter (claim) with patient, providers, diagnoses, and service lines.
- List Encounters
List professional encounters filtered by status, dates, patient, provider, payer, and more.
- Get Encounter
Retrieve a single encounter (claim) with its providers, diagnoses, and service lines.
- Update Encounter
Update fields on an existing encounter (claim), including status, providers, and billing metadata.
Insurance Refunds
- Create Insurance Refund
Post an insurance refund with allocations to service lines, claims, or billing provider unattributed cash.
- List Insurance Refunds
List insurance refunds filtered by payer, service line, claim, or billing provider.
- Get Insurance Refund
Retrieve a single insurance refund and its allocations by refund ID.
- Update Insurance Refund
Update an insurance refund's amount, timestamp, notes, or allocations.
Patient Payments
- Create Patient Payment
Record a patient payment and allocate it to service lines, claims, a billing provider, an appointment, or leave it unattributed.
- List Patient Payments
List patient payments filtered by patient, claim, service line, billing provider, invoice, or payment source.
- Get Patient Payment
Retrieve a single patient payment and its allocations by patient payment ID.
- Update Patient Payment
Update a patient payment's timestamp, note, or invoice.
- Delete Patient Payment
Delete a patient payment by patient payment ID.
Patients
- Create Patient
Create a pre-encounter patient with demographics, contacts, guarantors, and other administrative data.
- Search Patients
Search patients by MRN or other identifier fields.
- List Patients
List patients with cursor pagination, sort, filters, and free-text search.
- Get Patient
Retrieve a single patient by their Candid patient ID.
- Update Patient
Update a patient record using optimistic concurrency via the next version number.
Payers
- Get Payer
Retrieve a single payer from Candid's canonical payer list by its UUID.
- List Payers
List all payers on Candid's canonical payer list with optional name search.
Service Lines
- Create Service Line
Add a service line (CPT/HCPCS code) with charges and diagnosis pointers to an encounter.
- Update Service Line
Update an existing service line's code, modifiers, units, charge, or diagnosis pointers.
- Delete Service Line
Remove a service line from its encounter by service line ID.
Tasks
- Create Task
Create a billing operations task tied to an encounter with type, category, and assignee.
- List Tasks
List billing operations tasks filtered by status, category, assignee, or encounter.
- Get Task
Retrieve a single task with its notes, status history, and encounter reference.
- Update Task
Update a task's status, assignee, notes, or blocking reasons.
Write-Offs
- Create Write-Offs
Post one or more write-offs applied to a service line, claim, or billing provider.
- List Write-Offs
List write-offs filtered by payer, claim, service line, billing provider, or account type.
- Get Write-Off
Retrieve a single write-off record by its Candid write-off ID.
Other (7)
- List Visits
List appointment visits within a date range with pagination and sorting.
- Get Claim Exports
Fetch CSV export files of claim version changes within a date window.
- Get Insurance Adjudication
Retrieve a single insurance adjudication (ERA/EOB posting) by its Candid ID.
- Run Eligibility Check
Submit a real-time 270/271 eligibility check to a payer via Stedi.
- Submit Eligibility Batch
Submit a batch of eligibility checks to payers for asynchronous processing.
- Deactivate Patient
Deactivate (soft-delete) a patient using optimistic concurrency via the next version number.
- Revert Write-Off
Reverse a previously posted write-off, restoring the balance on its target.
Set Up Your Candid Health MCP Server in Minutes
One endpoint. Any framework. Your agent is talking to Candid Health in under 10 lines of code.
Agent Frameworks
{
"mcpServers": {
"stackone": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"mcp-remote@latest",
"https://api.stackone.com/mcp?x-account-id=<account_id>",
"--header",
"Authorization: Basic <YOUR_BASE64_TOKEN>"
]
}
}
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Candid Health MCP Server FAQ
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