I am offering a personal opinion after finding out my Medicare and Plan F insurance was no longer acceptable to the Villages Health organization and also after having had access to it for two years. The VHC model is dedicated to young healthy seniors, e.g., an extended first time appointment, lab draws every six months, access to physician assistants and nurses for the common maladies suffered by healthy seniors. The system does not work very well for specialist referrals since most of the VHC doctors are recent transplants and the internal VHC specialists in house are relatively few. There are many respected primary care physicians outside the VHC model which more then a few of the local specialist physicians consider to be first class. I found four specialists myself prior to selecting VHC as my primary health care provider and other then saying " ok " none of them offered another encouraging word relating to the VHC organization. I have a new primary health care physician and as I visit the specialists and change my records most of them say, " you have a good one. "
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