Resources
Everything on this site that is not a plan table: the explainers, the source documents, the carrier contacts, and how any of it was put together.
Look up plans
2027 plansThe new plan year as CMS has published it so far — premiums, out-of-pocket maximums and star ratings.Browse by state and countyEvery plan filed in a county: what it costs, its star rating, and the benefits it reports.
Browse by carrierEvery parent organization, its plans and the counties it files in.Is my drug covered?Part D formularies plan by plan: tier, restrictions and cost sharing in your county.Stand-alone Part D plansEvery PDP by region, with premiums and deductibles.
Understand what you are reading
GuidesPlain-language explainers: $0 premiums, reading a Summary of Benefits, star ratings, HMO vs PPO, and comparing plans without being sold to.
Glossary173 Medicare terms defined in plain language, grouped by topic.
What Medicare doesn’t coverEvery federal exclusion, quoted from the rule that excludes it, with the exception and the date we checked.
Plan documents and contacts
Summaries of BenefitsThe plan’s own benefit document, linked from the carrier’s site where we have found it.
Carrier contactsPhone numbers and member-services links, plus how to reach a free SHIP counselor.
About this site
Methodology and source ledgerWhich CMS files built each page, when they were pulled, and their hashes.
What this site does and does not doThe line we do not cross, stated plainly.
Benefit newsWhat changed in each CMS release.
AboutWho publishes this and why.
Pro dataCounty and state exports and the full plan-benefit matrix, for people who use this professionally.