Medicare Options Compare Help

Navigation

There are 2 new ways you can move around within the site:

1. Breadcrumbs Navigation Trail: Breadcrumbs tell you where you are in relation to the rest of the website by showing a path or trail of the pages you visit. Breadcrumbs consist of hyperlinks to the main web pages you visit so that you can quickly move around the site without having to use your browser's "back" button. An example of a breadcrumb navigation bar appears below. This example tells you that you are at the "Basic Report" tab set of the Medicare Personal Plan Finder tool.

   

2. Tabbed Menu Bar: In the upper portion of the web page you will see different "tabs" with linking words on each tab, going horizontally across the page. These tabs take you to information about the particular area you are at in the website. The tab that is highlighted indicates the page you are on while the other are "faded" in the background. An example of a tabbed menu navigation bar appears below. This example tells you that you are at the "Quality" tab within the Detailed Report tab set of the Medicare Personal Plan Finder tool.

   

Search Results

• There are three easy steps to complete to find health plan choices available in your area. Step 1 is your current Medicare coverage question, Step 2 is your geographic area question and Step 3 includes plan category checkboxes. Answers to these three steps help you personalize your plan results.
• The Cost and Benefits – Basic Report page contains Medicare Advantage, Original Medicare and Medigap plans that you are eligible for based on your geographic criteria. Each plan category is an expandable/collapsible link and only those plan categories that you selected in Step 3 will display expanded. However, you can view the plans in each category by simply clicking on the plan category link. Additionally, each plan type name within the Medicare Advantage category is an expandable/collapsible link that when expanded will display text describing that particular plan type.
• On the Cost and Benefits – Basic Report page there are empty checkboxes next to each health plan. You should click in the checkbox next to the health plans for which you want to see more information, and then click on the 'View Detailed Report' button at the bottom of the page.
• The Cost and Benefits – Detailed Report page contains detailed information about the health plans you selected on the Cost and Benefits – Basic Report page. You can review the information displayed on this page to gain a more in-depth understanding about the health plans you are interested in.
• The Quality tab contains information about the different quality measures used to rate the health plans. Additionally, this page shows how the selected health plans rate in comparison to national and state quality measures rankings.
• The Why People Leave tab contains information about why people chose to leave their Managed Care Plan.

 
Thank you for using the Medicare Personal Plan Finder. We hope it will make your health care coverage decisions easier.