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      "Title": "bug(npi_get_provider): endpoints drop four live NPPES fields",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.7\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.14\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.x\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`npi_get_provider` and `npi://provider/{npi}` drop four fields that live NPPES v2.1 responses carry on `endpoints[]`: `endpointDescription`, `contentOtherDescription`, `useOtherDescription`, and the endpoint `address_2`. None reaches `structuredContent`, the formatted `content[]` text, or the resource JSON, so an endpoint whose…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/npi-providers-mcp-server/issues/9",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-10T23:45:23.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(npi_search_providers): other-name matches are indistinguishable from current-name matches",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.2.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\nNPPES matches `first_name`/`last_name` against a provider's other (former or alternate) names as well as the current name, and sorts by current last name. `npi_search_providers` rows show only the current name, so an other-name match looks like a wrong result, and for a common name the other-name matches fill the reachable…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/npi-providers-mcp-server/issues/26",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-24T21:52:54.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(npi_lookup_taxonomy): plural stop words are kept as required terms",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.3.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\n`npi_lookup_taxonomy` mode `resolve` recognizes stop words only in their singular form. `doctors`, `physicians`, `specialists`, and `providers` are kept as required terms, so a plural lay phrase that resolves in the singular finds nothing, or matches unrelated words through the stem. `npi_search_providers` `specialty` behaves…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/npi-providers-mcp-server/issues/32",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-24T23:21:22.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(npi_lookup_taxonomy): stop-word-only queries match unrelated words",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.3.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\nWhen a `npi_lookup_taxonomy` mode `resolve` query is made only of stop words (`physician`, `doctor`, `specialist`, `provider`, `md`, `do`), the resolver keeps them as required terms and matches their stems at word starts. They then hit unrelated words: `physician` stems to `physic` and leads with Radiological Physics, and `do`…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/npi-providers-mcp-server/issues/31",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-24T23:13:56.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(npi_search_providers): mixed individual and organization criteria get an unrelated hint",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.3.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\n`npi_search_providers` with a person-name field and `provider_type: \"organization\"` (or `organization_name` with `provider_type: \"individual\"`) is sent to NPPES, which rejects it with error `13` (\"Cannot mix type 1 and type 2 search criteria\"). The tool relays it as `invalid_search_field` with a recovery hint about wildcards and…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/npi-providers-mcp-server/issues/30",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-24T23:06:17.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(npi_lookup_taxonomy): dotted abbreviations resolve through single letters",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.3.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\n`npi_lookup_taxonomy` mode `resolve` splits a dotted abbreviation like `P.A.` into one-letter tokens, and each one-letter token matches any word starting with that letter. Dotted forms of provider credentials resolve to unrelated physician codes, and `npi_search_providers` `specialty` filters on them.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\n1.…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/npi-providers-mcp-server/issues/29",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-24T23:06:15.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "bug(npi_lookup_taxonomy): pediatric variants lead sports and sleep medicine",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.2.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\n`npi_lookup_taxonomy` mode `resolve` demotes pediatric variants of a specialty only when \"Pediatric\" appears in the specialization. Entries whose classification is Pediatrics (Sports Medicine, Sleep Medicine under `2080…`) are not demoted, so a bare `sports medicine` query leads with the pediatric code and `npi_search_providers`…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/npi-providers-mcp-server/issues/25",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-24T21:50:23.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "bug(npi_lookup_taxonomy): therapist resolves to Therapeutic Radiology",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.2.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\n`npi_lookup_taxonomy` mode `resolve` stems `therapist` to `therap`, which also starts the word \"therapeutic\". Therapeutic Radiology Physician then ranks first on the physician-grouping tier, ahead of every therapist profession, and `npi_search_providers` `specialty: \"therapist\"` filters on `Therapeutic Radiology`.\n\n### Steps to…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/npi-providers-mcp-server/issues/24",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-24T21:50:21.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "bug(npi_lookup_taxonomy): physician assistant resolves to Dental Assistant",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.9\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\n`npi_lookup_taxonomy` mode `resolve` drops `physician` as a stop word whenever another token remains, so `physician assistant` resolves as `assistant` and ranks Dental Assistant above Physician Assistant. The same stripping applies to any NUCC label where `physician` is part of the specialty's own name.\n\n### Steps to reproduce…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/npi-providers-mcp-server/issues/21",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-24T20:46:27.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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      "Title": "bug(npi_lookup_taxonomy): resolve matches query stems inside unrelated words",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.9\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\n`npi_lookup_taxonomy` mode `resolve` matches a query's stem anywhere inside an entry's words, so a stem that happens to sit inside an unrelated word pulls that entry in — and can rank it first. `npi_search_providers` resolves `specialty` through the same resolver and sends the top hit's description to NPPES, so the wrong…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/npi-providers-mcp-server/issues/20",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-24T20:46:16.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "feat(npi_search_providers): restrict location searches to practice addresses upstream",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\nA location-constrained `npi_search_providers` call sends only `city`/`state`/`postal_code` upstream. NPPES then matches mailing addresses as well as practice locations, so part of every page is mailing-only rows the tool's post-filter drops — 23 of 200 on `city=SEATTLE&state=WA&enumeration_type=NPI-1`, 32 of 200 on a Seattle cardiology search (2026-09-24). Those rows spend page slots and `skip` offsets inside the registry's 1200-row window without ever reaching the caller.\n\n###…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/npi-providers-mcp-server/issues/19",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-24T20:24:52.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "bug(npi_search_providers): location post-filter drops providers practicing at a secondary location",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.9\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\n`npi_search_providers` post-filters rows against the requested `city`/`state`/`postal_code` using only the record's primary `LOCATION` address. NPPES matches a location search against the mailing address or any practice location, so a provider who practices in the requested city at a secondary location (`practiceLocations[]`) is…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/npi-providers-mcp-server/issues/18",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-24T19:46:31.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "bug(npi_lookup_taxonomy): resolve returns inactive NUCC codes",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.7\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.14\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\n`npi_lookup_taxonomy` mode `resolve` returns NUCC codes marked inactive, with nothing in the output flagging them, and `npi_search_providers` sends its top `resolve()` hit to NPPES as `taxonomy_description`. 28 bundled codes are inactive; 22 of them are the top hit for their own specialization name (e.g. `psychotherapy`,…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/npi-providers-mcp-server/issues/16",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-02T15:55:37.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "bug(nppes): malformed results fabricate misses and provider state",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.7\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.14\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\nThe NPPES response boundary casts parsed JSON directly to `RawNppesResponse` without runtime shape validation. Structurally malformed or partial success bodies can become confirmed misses, fabricated provider identities, or a retried native error instead of a typed upstream-response failure.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\nStub the…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/npi-providers-mcp-server/issues/15",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-02T15:55:20.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "bug(npi_get_provider): individual mailing addresses cross the practice-data boundary",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.7\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.14\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\n`npi_get_provider` and `npi://provider/{npi}` return every `addresses[]` row for an individual (NPI-1), including `MAILING`, which for a sole practitioner can be a home address and phone — contradicting the server's own scope statement (\"no personal or home data\"). `npi_search_providers` falls back to the first address when a…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/npi-providers-mcp-server/issues/14",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-02T15:55:00.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(npi_get_provider): invalid-check-digit NPIs reach NPPES and read as deactivated",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.7\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.14\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.14\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 26.1\n\n### Description\n\n`npi_get_provider` and `npi://provider/{npi}` check only that an NPI is 10 digits. A value with a failing [check digit](https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Administrative-Simplification/NationalProvIdentStand/Downloads/NPIcheckdigit.pdf) (Luhn, calculated as if prefixed by `80840`) is sent to NPPES, which answers…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/npi-providers-mcp-server/issues/13",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-02T15:54:41.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(npi_lookup_taxonomy): full entries drop NUCC Notes",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.7\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.10.14\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.3.x\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`npi_lookup_taxonomy` describes mode `get` as returning \"the full entry for an exact code\", but `scripts/generate-taxonomy-data.ts` drops the NUCC `Notes` column at bundle time, so neither mode `get` nor `npi://taxonomy/{code}` can return it. Notes is not sparse: 597 of the 879 bundled codes carry one, and some carry substantive…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/npi-providers-mcp-server/issues/11",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-16T02:59:16.000Z",
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