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Originally Posted by gomsiepop
A previous poster states that patients of The Villages were not "booted" out of The Villages healthcare needs to get off his high horse. My husband and I were skeptical of joining The Villages healthcare. A friend of ours encouraged us to join because of her positive experience. After having The Villages for our care for approximately a year we were given the option to either join Medicare Advantage or leave the network. After careful investigation we opted to leave. That choice was very difficult. We had developed a trust in our Primary Physician that I found difficult to replace. For someone to state that those of us who chose to leave did so easily is to minimize the heartbreak that some of us experienced. My husband and I trusted our Primary Physician. Unfortunately, we were given information that was totally a lie. A year prior to being "booted" out I received a letter stating that because we currently had healthcare through The Villages we were "grandfathered" into their system. I for one am hoping that The Villages is possibly reconsidering their decision and will open the door for all of us to return.
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No "high horse" involved, just reality. YOU WERE NOT KICKED OUT, YOU HAD A CHOICE. What's so hard to understand about that. No one said it was "easy", at least I didn't. In fact, from the other side, the hardest thing we ever did was to drop Empire insurance, because we knew it was the only insurance for a thousand or more of our patients. But Empire had dropped their reimbursement so low that we were actually losing money by seeing their enrollees. It was a BUSINESS decision.
Also, 2 years ago when these threads started, I challenged anyone, ANYONE to produce, in writing, from TVH a letter that essentially said---"No matter what the future brings, no matter changes in insurance company policies, no matter changes in national health care policy, that they would forever in perpetuity accept your specific insurance plan" I'm still waiting. I received that very same letter about "grandfathering", and didn't take it to mean my current insurance was locked in forever. I took it to mean I could be their patient forever, but not as a guarantee that I wouldn't have to change insurance.
You speak of trust in your PCP, and how it was heartbreaking to leave----Are we to take it you had even more love for and trust in you insurance plan???? Because that is the choice YOU made.