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.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6115 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 18, 2025

    Mr. Pocan (for himself, Mr. Carson, Mr. Cohen, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. 
 Doggett, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Khanna, Ms. Norton, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Ms. 
    Schakowsky, Mr. Takano, Mr. Thanedar, Ms. Tlaib, and Ms. Omar) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
    Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
   each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    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.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REQUIRING WEBSITE FOR PROVIDER SEARCHES UNDER THE MEDICARE 
              PROGRAM.

    Section 1851(d) of the Social Security Act is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (7), by inserting ``and maintenance of the 
        website required under paragraph (8)'' after ``paragraph 
        (2)(A)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(8) Website for provider search.--Beginning not later 
        than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this paragraph, 
        the Secretary shall maintain an internet website for Medicare 
        beneficiaries (and prospective Medicare beneficiaries) to--
                    ``(A) search for providers of services and 
                suppliers participating in the network of an MA plan or 
                the original Medicare fee-for-service program under 
                parts A and B; and
                    ``(B) identify the providers of services and 
                suppliers participating in the network of each MA plan 
                and the original Medicare fee-for-service program under 
                parts A and B.''.
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