# ClearCarePulse Episode-of-Care Total Cost

> ClearCarePulse Episode-of-Care Total Cost is a paid API for AI agents from clear-care-pulse.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.15/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns the all-in total cost of a medical procedure by summing every component — surgeon, facility, anesthesia, physical therapy, and follow-up visits — into a single episode-of-care price.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://clear-care-pulse.vercel.app/api/care/episode
- Price: $0.15/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/clearcarepulse-episode-of-care-total-cost-e96a33ca
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_EvaTsTzK6ubGhZB0tV6Kp

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability clearcarepulse-episode-of-care-total-cost-e96a33ca
```

Example prompt: What's the real all-in cost for a total knee replacement procedure near zip code 78701 — I want every component broken out: surgeon, facility, anesthesia, physical therapy, and follow-up visits summed into one total?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when a patient or advocate needs the true total cost of a procedure across all care components, not just the surgeon's fee or the facility charge alone. Prefer this over single-component lookup endpoints when the goal is financial planning, comparison shopping, or negotiating a bundled price. Ideal when downstream tasks include cost comparison, insurance gap analysis, or out-of-pocket budgeting.

## Known failure modes

- Unknown or unsupported procedure code returns 404 or empty result
- Zip code not covered by dataset returns limited or no pricing data
- Missing required procedure identifier returns 400 bad request
- Upstream pricing data unavailable returns 503 service error
- Payment not processed (x402 not fulfilled) results in 402 Payment Required

## How this service works

Total episode-of-care cost for healthcare and patient-advocate agents. Sums every component, surgeon, facility, anesthesia, PT, and follow-up, into the real all-in price of a procedure.

## Output

Returns a structured breakdown of every cost component in the episode of care — surgeon fees, facility charges, anesthesia, physical therapy, and follow-up visits — plus a single summed all-in total price for the procedure.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "procedure"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "lang": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "lang"
      },
      "oop_max": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Annual out-of-pocket maximum in USD"
      },
      "procedure": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "procedure"
      },
      "deductible": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Annual deductible in USD"
      },
      "coinsurance": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Patient coinsurance % (default: 20)"
      },
      "deductible_met": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Deductible already met this year in USD"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "errors": {
     "type": "object",
     "description": "Documented error responses, keyed by HTTP status code",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
       "description"
      ],
      "properties": {
       "example": {
        "type": "object"
       },
       "description": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      }
     }
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/clearcarepulse-episode-of-care-total-cost-e96a33ca/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from clear-care-pulse.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/clear-care-pulse.vercel.app/llms.txt)