{"id":14201,"date":"2019-10-08T06:20:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T10:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14201"},"modified":"2019-10-08T06:22:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T10:22:00","slug":"as-medicare-enrollment-nears-popular-price-comparison-tool-is-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14201","title":{"rendered":"As Medicare Enrollment Nears, Popular Price Comparison Tool Is Missing"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Susan Jaffe for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

Millions of older adults can start signing up next week for private policies offering Medicare drug and medical coverage for 2020. But many risk wasting money and even jeopardizing their health care due to changes in Medicare\u2019s plan finder, its most popular website.<\/p>\n

For more than a decade, beneficiaries used the plan finder to compare dozens of Medicare policies offered by competing insurance companies and get a list of their options. Yet after a website redesign six weeks ago, the search results are missing crucial details: How much will you pay out-of-pocket? And which plan offers the best value?\u00a0 Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n

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