{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=89F282F6-43C7-4BBE-AE46-7A2E572096A4", "CMS Heeds Warner and Wyden Call to Improve Medicare Advantage for Seniors", "2025-12-17", "2025", "2025-12", "Democrat", "Senate", "VA", "Mark R. Warner", "W000805", "www.warner.senate.gov", "warner", "https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued a statement after the Trump administration proposed new steps to make it easier for seniors to switch their Medicare Advantage plan or choose Traditional Medicare if a doctor or hospital they use leaves their insurance plan network.\n\n\u201cNavigating the health care landscape is hard enough as is \u2013 we shouldn\u2019t be forcing seniors to jump through hoops in order to continue seeing the doctors they know and trust,\u201d said Sen. Warner. \u201cI\u2019m glad to see CMS heed our call by proposing new measures that would allow Medicare Advantage enrollees to change their coverage more easily when they experience mid-year provider network changes. I\u2019ll keep working with CMS to get this proposed rule finalized and ensure that elderly Americans can count on the continuity of care they need.\u201d\n\n\u201cAmerican seniors should not have the rug pulled out from under them when it comes to seeing the doctor of their choice,\u201d said Sen. Wyden. \u201cThese proposed improvements will reduce confusion and make it easier for seniors to continue seeing their local health care providers. I urge CMS to finalize this proposal and bring more transparency and consumer protection to Medicare Advantage.\u201d\n\nIn October, Wyden and Warner called on Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to address the rising number of incidents where doctors or health care facilities leave a Medicare Advantage plan network, which triggers a \u201cspecial enrollment period\u201d that allows seniors to change plans. Over the past year, more than a dozen states have had provider network changes deemed \u201csignificant\u201d by CMS.\n\nLate last month, CMS proposed changes to streamline the process by allowing seniors to change plans if virtually any of the health care providers they see leaves their plan network. An enrollee who loses a provider within their plan network will be notified of the network change and their right to change plan or switch to Traditional Medicare with guaranteed access to Medigap coverage.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=89F282F6-43C7-4BBE-AE46-7A2E572096A4"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6200568750500679, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}