Medicare gets a provider-search website—finally.
H.R. 6115 — To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to maintain a website for Medicare beneficiaries to search for providers participating in MA plans and traditional Medicare. · Filed by Mark Pocan (D-WI) · 15 cosponsors · Introduced Nov 18, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to create and maintain a public website where Medicare beneficiaries can search for doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers who participate in Medicare Advantage plans or traditional Medicare. The website must be operational within one year of the bill's enactment and allow both current and prospective beneficiaries to find participating providers in their area.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole operative mechanism is a transparency requirement: mandating a public website for provider-network search. It does not alter reimbursement, eligibility, or plan structure—only information availability.
What the text implies
- Website design, maintenance, and hosting costs will be borne by HHS/CMS; no appropriation is specified, so funding source and adequacy are unclear.
- The bill does not specify data-freshness standards, search functionality, or accessibility requirements (e.g., mobile, language support, screen-reader compliance), leaving implementation details to agency discretion.
- MA plans and traditional Medicare may have different provider-network update cycles; the website's ability to reflect real-time participation status depends on data-sharing agreements not addressed in the bill.
- Beneficiaries may still face barriers (digital literacy, internet access) that a website alone does not remove; the tool's utility depends on adoption and user experience.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Medicare beneficiaries gain a centralized, transparent tool to compare provider networks across plans before enrollment, reducing information asymmetry and enabling more informed healthcare choices. This addresses a documented gap in plan-shopping transparency without imposing costs on beneficiaries.
Named in the bill
Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Medicare Advantage plans, Traditional Medicare (Parts A and B), Medicare beneficiaries
Where it stands
15 cosponsors: 15 Democrats.
- Nov 18, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Nov 18, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce and House Committee on Ways and Means · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a…”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
2 lobbying clients named this bill on 2 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. Those filings disclosed $40,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 18 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 41% of bills with at least one filing.
Mark Pocan, the sponsor, reported $474,320 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Center for Health and Democracy — $20,000 on 1 filing
- Social Security Works — $20,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jan 16, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (874 characters) on Jun 3, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jan 16, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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