# Changelog

Service version 2026-10-15.1 · data version public-2026-10-13.2.

## Public test (from 2026-10-13)

- 2026-10-15: one MCP address for every country. `https://api.findadoctor.si/mcp` now also serves New Zealand: decide the country first (ask the person when it is unclear), then pass `country` (`US` or `NZ`) to `search_doctors`, `list_specialties` and `about_database`; `get_doctor` reads the country from the doctor id. Without `country` it is the United States, so clients that connected before work as before. The New Zealand-only address `https://api-nz.findadoctor.si/mcp` and both HTTP APIs are unchanged.
- 2026-10-15: when a doctor has no published Medicare count for the procedure you searched, the result says why instead of leaving it blank: either the doctor billed Medicare fee-for-service in 2024 and CMS hid a count under 11 patients (so fewer than 11 or none), or the doctor has no 2024 Medicare fee-for-service record. Either way it is unknown, not zero. Search results carry this in `procedure_volume_2024` and `get_doctor` in `signature_procedures_note`. Ranking is unchanged.
- No sign-in needed at `https://api.findadoctor.si` (MCP and HTTP API): short lists are free; opening doctors' evidence has a daily allowance, see [Limits](/us/docs/limits/). An optional account key raises it.
- The `medicare_patient` description and the usage guide now say that Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans will not pay an opted-out doctor except for emergency or urgent care, as the doctor's WARNING already did.
- Official GitHub repository with setup guides, examples, the `findadoctor` Agent Skill and plugins for Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI: https://github.com/simonlin1212/findadoctor-mcp. Linked from the footer and the Quickstart.

## Private testing (2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13)

- Private testing at `https://api.findadoctor.si`: MCP and HTTP API with sign-in.
- Public data edition: official US records and facts from hospital-system websites only. No private doctor rating, award or hospital ranking is included or counted in scores. Specialties come from each physician's NPI taxonomy code and CMS specialty, matched to the specialty names used here by their official names. The hospital and children's hospital websites we read were chosen partly from published lists.
- Website and agent documentation: this site, `/llms.txt`, Markdown versions of every page, API catalog.
- Location searches use current addresses: an NPI registry address that is more than 60 miles from every address in the 2026 CMS clinician file and was not updated for over a year is no longer matched; `get_doctor` shows it as `old_npi_registry_address`.
- Email addresses are left out: an entry on a hospital-site page that contains one (some specialty and education lists carried staff email addresses) is dropped, and an email address inside a registry address is removed. Contact the practice by phone or through its website.
- The MCP server card says in `_meta` whether sign-in is required; the guides give the number of doctors with listed focus areas (about 82,000), not only the number with hospital-site facts.

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