According to a blog post today from CMS Administrator Seema Verma, CMS is planning to launch a new Medicare Care Compare on Medicare.gov. The new compare tool, which CMS plans to launch in Spring 2020, will combine the eight existing compare tools for Home Health, Hospice, Hospital, Nursing Home, Dialysis Facility, Long-Term Care Hospital, Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility, and Physician. Currently, these eight compare tools are among the most popular and utilized sections of the Medicare.gov website.
The new compare tool will be designed to allow “users to access the same information through a single point of entry and simplified navigation to find the information ...