Meps

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MEPS — what Americans actually take, and what for.

4 tools
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Tools

meps_drugs_for_condition

Which prescription drugs Americans actually take for a given medical condition, with a national estimate of how many people take each one. Covers the whole US population — every payer, every age, comm

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meps_conditions_for_drug

What a drug is actually being prescribed for in the US population, ranked by estimated people. Answers off-label and multi-use questions that a label or an approval database cannot: what gabapentin, m

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meps_drug_use

National prescription volume and spending for one drug: how many Americans filled it, how many fills, total spend across all payers and how much patients paid out of pocket. Population-wide rather tha

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meps_top_drugs

The most-used prescription drugs in the United States, ranked by estimated number of people who filled them, with total and out-of-pocket spending. Answers what the most commonly taken medications in

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/meps/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/meps/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"meps_drugs_for_condition","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript 
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("meps_drugs_for_condition", {});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("meps — what americans actually take, and what for");