Helaine I. Fingold, Member of the Firm in the Health Care & Life Sciences practice, in the firm’s Baltimore office, was quoted in Modern Healthcare, in “CMS Rolls Out Last-Minute Changes to Medicare Plan Finder,” by Nona Tepper. (Read the full version – subscription required.)
Following is an excerpt:
A little over a month before the annual enrollment period, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is urging Medicare Advantage insurers to make significant changes to how they present their offerings to beneficiaries.
Perhaps most notably, CMS will incorporate provider network lists into the Medicare Plan Finder tool enrollees use to select plans, it notified insurers last month. The agency is simultaneously developing a national provider directory that will not be ready in time for the 2026 Medicare Advantage and Part D sign-up campaign, which runs Oct. 15-Dec. 7.
CMS also intends to add more details about Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits and a prescription drug pricing search tool powered by artificial intelligence.
Theses are the most significant additions to the Medicare Plan Finder since its launch in 2005, said Helaine Fingold, a health insurance attorney at the law firm Epstein Becker & Green. “I would consider it a landmark change,” she said.
