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Originally Posted by Dan9871
Of course you have to decide for yourself about medical care in the villages.
But just to give you another data point to consider...
My wife and I also have UHC Advantage and use Villages Health. She has had serious medical issues this year and been in the ER numerous times, both at TVH and Ocala Regional Medical Center. Both seem to be very busy, have lot's of patients in gurneys in the hallways and take forever to get admitted to the hospital, usually due to lack of beds.
I know that some the doc's and medical people that respond on here on TOTV say that TVH ER needs improvements but from what little I know of ER's it seems about the same as most, at least from a patient's point of view.
But the overall care and quality in the hospitals and from the medical people has been very good. We both feel it is more than equal to what had when we lived in Eastern Mass.
As far as medical costs so far for my wife the cost on paper from the doc's and hospitals is over $280,000. Our out of pocket so far is almost $4500 plus what we pay for Medicare. The UHC Advantage plan we have limits our out of pocket to $4500 so we are just about done with out of pocket for this year.
We've haven't had any issue finding a good PCP or specialists, or getting the tests my wife needs. We've depended on our PCP's recommendations and it has worked out very well.
One time a provider that UHC said we had to use was about 40 minutes away. We found another in the Villages and asked UHC for an exception based strictly on convenience for us. UHC only to one day to approve it without anything more than filling out a request form.
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I have to agree with this! We too have had numerous occassions of transport to both Leesburg hospital and The Villages Hospital as well as admittance to both. No issues except maybe the long ER waiting room wait (if you're a walk-in). I think rather than renumerating on social media sites folks should all band together and call as well as write the admins with their complaints. Perhaps then, management will do something for improvements. I'm not educated on what it takes to run a hospital so perception as a consumer is where I come from. I can't complain about our health care here since we have UHC through T.V. and it's served our needs well.