I believed the hype when I moved here about The Village Health, joined and used my medicare and a supplemental from United Healthcare. My circumstances are special because I am a transplant patient. I used VHC for the regular aches, pains and sprains but I need to visit the transplant clinic for followup evaluations. Now I am going to be in a bind. None of my specialists accept Advantage and the local Advantage network does support transplant work. Do I shoot craps, use VHC and hope a GP will be able to get me help, or do I find a new GP miles away? Urgent Care or ER are starting to look like a good bet while keeping my medicare and supplemental. I feel the VHC sold out and there promotions for Healthiest Hometown were for suckers.
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