MedScanBot

MedScanBot is the page-fetching agent behind MedScan, a Medicare marketing compliance scanner. It visits a web page only when a MedScan user explicitly submits that page for a compliance review or sets up scheduled compliance monitoring — typically on a website they own or manage. It does not crawl sites link-by-link, does not index content for search, and does not visit any page no one asked it to.

How it identifies itself

User-Agent: MedScanBot/1.0 (+this page)

Traffic profile

• Fetches a single submitted page (plus its normal assets) per scan — no site-wide crawling.
• Scheduled monitors re-visit at most once per check frequency (weekly to monthly per page).
• Renders the page in a real browser so the review sees what your visitors see.

Allowlisting MedScanBot on your site

If your site sits behind bot protection (Cloudflare, Wordfence, or a host firewall), it may block automated visitors by default. To let your own compliance scans through, allowlist by user-agent:

• Cloudflare: Security → WAF → Custom rules → create a rule with expression (http.user_agent contains "MedScanBot") and action Skip (Super Bot Fight Mode / managed challenge).
• Wordfence (WordPress): Firewall → Blocking → make sure no custom pattern matches MedScanBot; under Rate Limiting, set "Allowlisted user agents" to include MedScanBot.
• Other hosts: ask support to allowlist the user-agent string above for your domain.

Questions or concerns

If you're seeing traffic from MedScanBot on a site you own and don't want it, a MedScan user has submitted one of your pages — contact us and we'll investigate and stop the checks: brett@ehlertmarketing.com.