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Can a patient's AI assistant get in?

People are starting to ask AI assistants to look up lab results, compare drug prices and check what their insurer covers. This page tracks the public pages of 20 sites: 16 health systems, insurers, pharmacies and health services, plus 4 government health agencies. None of the 19 whose rules we could read blocks AI assistants. But 6 of the 20 turned our bot away or asked it to prove it was human: NIH, Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins Medicine, UnitedHealthcare, GoodRx, Zocdoc.

We track public pages only: portal landing pages, public policy pages and robots.txt. We never test logins and never accept reports containing health information. Health systems have legitimate security reasons to block automated access to portals; nothing here suggests otherwise.

20 sites

TypeTraining · Search · AssistantsLet our bot in?AI filesLast change
CDCcdc.govhealth agencyAllows AITraining: AllowedSearch: AllowedAssistants: AllowedLet in··
NIHnih.govhealth agencyBlocks someTraining: AllowedSearch: AllowedAssistants: AllowedHuman check··
Medicare.govmedicare.govhealth benefitsAllows AITraining: AllowedSearch: AllowedAssistants: AllowedLet in··
HealthCare.govhealthcare.govhealth benefitsAllows AITraining: AllowedSearch: AllowedAssistants: AllowedLet in··
Mayo Clinicmayoclinic.orghealth systemBlocks someTraining: AllowedSearch: AllowedAssistants: AllowedTurned away··
Cleveland Clinicclevelandclinic.orghealth systemAllows AITraining: AllowedSearch: AllowedAssistants: AllowedLet inllms.txt·
Johns Hopkins Medicinehopkinsmedicine.orghealth systemBlocks someTraining: AllowedSearch: AllowedAssistants: AllowedHuman check··
Kaiser Permanentekp.orgintegratedAllows AITraining: AllowedSearch: AllowedAssistants: AllowedLet in··
Mount Sinaimountsinai.orghealth systemAllows AITraining: AllowedSearch: AllowedAssistants: AllowedLet in·Oct 2026
UnitedHealthcareuhc.cominsurerBlocks someTraining: AllowedSearch: AllowedAssistants: AllowedTurned away··
Aetnaaetna.cominsurerAllows AITraining: AllowedSearch: AllowedAssistants: AllowedLet in··
Cignacigna.cominsurerAllows AITraining: AllowedSearch: AllowedAssistants: AllowedLet inllms.txt·
Anthemanthem.cominsurerAllows AITraining: AllowedSearch: AllowedAssistants: AllowedLet in··
Humanahumana.cominsurerAllows AITraining: AllowedSearch: AllowedAssistants: AllowedLet in·Oct 2026
CVS Healthcvs.compharmacyAllows AITraining: AllowedSearch: AllowedAssistants: AllowedLet inllms.txtMay 2024
Walgreenswalgreens.compharmacyAllows AITraining: AllowedSearch: AllowedAssistants: AllowedLet in··
WebMDwebmd.compublisherBlocks someTraining: Some blockedSearch: AllowedAssistants: AllowedLet in·Sep 2026
GoodRxgoodrx.compricingBlocks someTraining: AllowedSearch: AllowedAssistants: AllowedHuman check·Dec 2024
Zocdoczocdoc.combookingUnknownTraining: UnknownSearch: UnknownAssistants: UnknownHuman check·Feb 2026
MyChart (Epic)mychart.orgportalAllows AITraining: AllowedSearch: AllowedAssistants: AllowedLet in··