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Old 08-04-2016, 05:15 PM
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I moved to tv in 2013. The villages accepted original medicare & my nys insurance. Now they are telling me that to stay with tv health i have to join
medicare advantange. My nys insurance says they they will drop me if i do this. This will result in loss of benefits & a $2,500 reimbursement from my former employer. The villages runs ads saying "new" villagers can join tv health & pick a medicare advantage plan. This ad also states royalties will be paid to the villages. Best of all you don't have to reside in the villages to use tv health as long as you have medicare advantage.
The phone number for info rang 30 times with no answer or recording to leave a message. Call administrative ofc. 352-674-1700. They are taking names & have a team looking at the responses to this decision. Please call & voice your opinion. I spoke to barbara oliver she did not want to give me her name but i insisted. Fight for your rights.
We have to make this a HUGE issue!!! We, who feel that we are getting forced to accept what we believe is more out of pocket expenses and lower quality health care(and if you think that not being able to find good doctors/specialists or other locations to choose from isn't lower quality health care, then you're absolutely wrong) we need to stand up and fight this! Don't be silent, people!!! Let others with more power and authority know what's going on here! Because if you don't think the Villages isn't somehow involved you're also wrong. This is after all a real estate company owned city. Including the hospital! And a specialist of mine told me this