---
title: "County Medicare fee-for-service spending context"
method: POST
path: "/api/locus_medicare_spending"
tags: ["healthcare", "medicare", "county", "cost-context", "cms", "read-only", "free", "free"]
---

# County Medicare fee-for-service spending context

`POST /api/locus_medicare_spending`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.locus.report`
- URL: `https://api.locus.report/api/locus_medicare_spending`
- Auth: none required

Returns latest two CMS county Medicare Geographic Variation rows for a US address/point: beneficiary count, actual and standardized per-capita payment, and standardized year-over-year change. Original Medicare fee-for-service only. Not one bill, provider price, care/access/health, property signal, score, rank, or hot/cold label. Direct flat-body route for this one free resource; no API key, payment, or catalog wrapper. Return only the cited bounded evidence described here; this route never produces a paid brief or full report.

## Request body

- object
  - `address` string: US street address. Provide this or latitude+longitude.
  - `latitude` number: Decimal latitude; provide with longitude.
  - `longitude` number: Decimal longitude; provide with latitude.

## Response `200`

Free cited evidence response.

- object

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid request body.
- `429`: Rate limited.

---

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