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Originally Posted by trichard
It looks like the marketing push for MA has started. Today's article talks about how great the quality of care is at The Villages Health because they have teamed up with UHC Medicare Advantage. Did I miss the part about how it is big money-maker for TVH? I am waiting for the other shoe to drop for Medicare Original patients. Get ready to be "porked"!
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By reading past threads on TV Health clinics opening, people wondered how they would be able to hire excellent primary care doctors and pay them the comfortable salaries, while still being able to have a smaller number of patients for each dr. to have needed time with each patient. Looking at the quality built into the TV Health system and clinicians, it should be evident that somebody has to pay the bills to keep it running pristinely as it is.
The more time spent with each patient, the fewer the patients seen in a day, and then the less revenue coming in to pay the bills and salaries.
AARP has its brand name on the Medicare Advantage plans and rakes in a fortune into its "non-profit" conglomerate. It seems to me that The Villages is lending its trade name to such plans, to make such royalties too, but TV is spending the royalties money on the TV Health system to keep it solvent and running as intended.
From experience here, I'd trust TV reinvesting those royalties back into the TV Health system far more than I'd trust AARP.
"An AARP spokesman declined to say how much the organization receives in royalties from UnitedHealthcare, but the most recent IRS Form 990 records available show non-profit AARP reported royalties of $762.6 million in 2013, more than half its revenue of $1.3 billion. That’s up from $723. 3 million in royalties the previous year.
The money includes a portion of the premiums collected by AARP-endorsed insurers in fields including health and auto, along with royalties from other ventures such as credit cards..."
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