Medicare

medicare.gov

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In its own wordsLooks like: Government or public bodyWelcome to Medicare | MedicareThe official U.S. government website for Medicare, a health insurance program for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities.

Medicare (medicare.gov) looks like a government or public body site, is ranked in the top 10,000 sites and was registered in 1997. It is built with Drupal, Vite and Acquia; we found no traces of an AI site builder.

Among the top 10K sites.

A popularity band, not a visit count.

Tranco: #6,187 · Chrome UX Report: Top 10,000 · Majestic Million: #2,282

Each list, with its date
SourceSaysAs of
TrancoA research ranking that combines several traffic and link sources, published daily.#6,187list of 27 Oct 2026
Chrome UX ReportRank buckets from Google’s real Chrome traffic, published monthly.Top 10,000Sep 2026
Majestic MillionRanks sites by how many separate networks link to them (links, not visits), published daily. CC BY 3.0#2,282list of 28 Oct 2026

Built with Drupal, Vite and jQuery and 1 more.

  • DrupalCMSShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 51
    <meta name="generator" content="Drupal 11 (https://www.drupal.org)">
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  • ViteFrameworkShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · page source, line 977
    <script src="https://frontend.medicare.gov/assets/index-BpkP_SZl.js">
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    Evidence · page source, line 973
    <script src="/core/assets/vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js?v=4.0.0">
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  • AcquiaHostingShow evidenceHide evidence
    Evidence · response header
    x-ah-environment: prod
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Everything else it uses (10)

Around it: CDN, Security, DNS, Email and more.

Business tools can stay listed after a site stops using them.

4 of 7 trust signals found on the home page.

Signals, not a judgement: missing details are common on small, honest sites.

  • Domain registered21 Nov 1997, 28 years agoNoted
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Contact detailsIn structured dataFound
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 55Masked for privacy. An email address or phone number can belong to a person, and data protection law, such as the EU’s GDPR, asks us to keep only what we need: that the page lists one, and where.
    "telephone": "1-8••-•••-••27"
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  • Privacy policyLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • TermsNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNoted
Every signal we looked at

On the site

  • Contact pageNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • About pageLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • Privacy policyLinked from the home page, and the page opensFound
  • TermsNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Refund or returns policyNo link found on the home pageNot found
  • Contact detailsIn structured dataFound
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    Exhibit 1 · page source, line 55Masked for privacy. An email address or phone number can belong to a person, and data protection law, such as the EU’s GDPR, asks us to keep only what we need: that the page lists one, and where.
    "telephone": "1-8••-•••-••27"
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  • Company detailsName: Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services, address givenFound
  • Payment providersNone on the home pageNoted
  • Trackers1 analytics and advertising tool: Google AnalyticsNoted

Behind the site

  • Security filterNot blocked by Cloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filterNotedCloudflare’s security filter and Quad9’s security filter
  • Domain registered21 Nov 1997, 28 years agoNoteddomain registry
  • HTTPSLoads over HTTPS with a valid certificateFound
  • Protective settings3 of 6 in placePartly
  • Email protectionPartly protected against forged emailPartlyDNS records

A second opinion on its security setup: Mozilla’s HTTP Observatory grades the site when you open it. Ten checks before you buy · A signal looks wrong? Report it

What it is

Website Summary

Looks like: Government or public body.

In its own wordsWelcome to Medicare | MedicareThe official U.S. government website for Medicare, a health insurance program for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities.

Our reading of the page, high confidence.

Show evidence (3)Hide evidence
Exhibit 1 · structured data
"@type": "GovernmentOrganization"
Exhibit 2 · address
https://www.medicare.gov/
Exhibit 3 · its own title or description
Welcome to Medicare | Medicare · Medicare · The official U.S. government website for Medicare, a health insurance program for people age 65 or older and younger
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Who is behind it

  • structured dataCenters for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services
  • WikidataMedicare

Confirmed by 2 independent sources: structured data and Wikidata.

Wikidata: Based in United States.

Its Facebook, X and YouTube accounts are the ones Wikidata lists.

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Exhibit 1 · page source, line 55
"name": "Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services"
Exhibit 2 · Wikidata
Q559392: Medicare
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Each name is quoted from its source. A brand and the company that owns it often go by different names.

More about it: Wikidata, profiles, AI use, page facts

In Wikidata

  • Medicare: US federal health insurance · publicly funded health care, government program, third-party payer · since 1965

Wikidata, the free knowledge base behind Wikipedia, lists this domain as the official website of this item. Volunteers write it; each item shows its sources.

Find them on

The profiles its home page links. We haven’t checked who runs them.

AI use

  • AI training: doesn’t ask AI training crawlers to stay away.
  • AI assistants: may read it for the people who ask them.

What its robots.txt and robots tags ask of AI crawlers. Each crawler chooses whether to follow it.

Site name
Medicare
Language
English (en)
What it tells search engines
Website, GovernmentOrganization

Named in its structured data

  • Government OrganizationCenters for Medicare &amp; Medicaid ServicesLawrence, US

Read from what the page says about itself; we haven’t checked whether it’s true.

Built with AI?

AI Website Detector

No AI builder traces found.

Coding tools such as Cursor leave no traces, so this doesn’t mean a person made it.

AI traces: None found

How we know

AI site builders leave traces in the sites they make. We look for the traces of 53 of them and show every match with the line it came from, so you can check it yourself.

We test this on 2,312 sites whose makers we know, and publish what we get wrong.

How we test it · Every builder we know · How to tell if a site was built with AI

Score breakdown

Site Score

88 of 100: strong trust signals.

How established and checkable it is; AI traces carry no weight.

88OF 100
TransparencyContact, policies and about page18 / 30
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections15 / 15
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines10 / 10
Why each part scored what it did
TransparencyContact, policies and about page18 / 30no contact page link · email and phone given · privacy policy linked · no terms link · no payments seen, so no refund policy needed · about page linked
Track recordHow long the domain has existed25 / 25domain registered 28 years ago
PopularityIts place in public rankings20 / 20Top 10K in a popularity list
Security and setupHTTPS and standard protections15 / 15loads over HTTPS · sends visitors to HTTPS · always uses HTTPS · protective settings
ConsistencyName, description and what it tells search engines10 / 10site name matches the domain · describes itself · tells search engines what it is

A high score isn’t a promise that a business is honest. How the score works.

Domain history

Domain History

Registered in 1997.

  1. Domain registeredRDAP
  2. First certificate issuedCertificate Transparency
  3. This scanCheckAnySite

The web archive couldn’t be reached; we’ll ask it again. Why can this be empty?

Changes, earlier scans and alerts
Since our previous scan
This is our first scan of the site.

How we scanned it

Only from what anyone can see: the site’s public pages and public records.

  • Politely. Our scanner, CheckAnySiteBot, says who it is and follows the site’s robots.txt.
  • With sources. Every fact above says where it came from and when.
  • Without guessing. When we couldn’t check something, we say so.
This scan, in numbers

927 checks on 28 Oct 2026, with version 0.5.0 of our checks and version 1.1 of the score.

How we work · What each version changed · About our scanner

Questions about medicare.gov

What is medicare.gov?

Medicare describes itself: “The official U.S. government website for Medicare, a health insurance program for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities.” It looks like a government or public body site. See the evidence

How old is medicare.gov?

Its domain was registered on 21 Nov 1997, 28 years ago. See the evidence

What is medicare.gov built with?

It is built with Drupal, Vite and Acquia; we found 14 technologies in all. See the evidence

How popular is medicare.gov?

It is among the top 10,000 sites, by Tranco, Chrome UX Report and Majestic Million. See the evidence

Was medicare.gov made with AI?

We found no traces of an AI site builder. That doesn’t prove a person built it: AI coding assistants leave no traces. See the evidence

Who is behind medicare.gov?

Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services, named by its structured data and Wikidata. See the evidence

More sites like this: government or public body

Automated findings from the site’s public home page and public records, as of 28 Oct 2026. They describe what we found, not the people or business behind the site, and they may be incomplete or out of date. This is information, not advice. Terms · Report an error

What this scan can’t tell you
  • Whether the business is real, honest or delivers what it sells.
  • Whether a site was made with AI when no traces were left: coding assistants and hand edits leave none.
  • How many people visit: we show popularity bands from public lists, not visits.
  • Anything beyond the home page as it was at the time of the scan.

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