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I've been with Villages Health Care (Colony Cottage) since its inception. I have traditional medicare with United Health Care supplemental plan F. Since the very start I could not tell any difference between the care I received with my current plan(s) or if the care would improve if I switched to advantage. Since I view the care from the Villages Health Care well below what I received from my primary care physician in the Midwest, I could not justify making the change to an advantage plane. I have felt for some time that I would move along and find another General Practitioner and now will being doing just that. This has never been about "better health care", it is all about the money. VHC is way over staffed and they have wonderful facilities, very large, bright and clean but you need big profit margins to continue to operate in this manner.
I've heard two different "rumors" that United Advantage pays VHS either $5000 per year and/or $800 per month per patient regardless if they are seen by physician or not (I suspect the truth lies somewhere in between) whereas traditional medicare only pays per visit??? So follow the money folks, that's what its all about. VHS will have to continue to tweek their "model" often to keep up the cost of doing business.