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Originally Posted by Fast Freddy
Point of Information: beginning January, 2020, the AARP United Health Medi-Gap plan I am signing up for will include Renue Active so we'll be able to go to a MVP at no additional charge. Checked out Brownwood MVP in the afternoon and there were plenty of empty machines. Looked clean. However, with these additional memberships it could get overwhelmed. Other near-by gyms were also included beginning in 2020 but not at the Rec. Centers.
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I've been going to MVP for free courtesy of United Health Medi-gap Villages Plan since January 2018, close to two years now. I've been an MVP paying member since I joined in May 2014. In November of 2017 UHC set up a table at the entrance to MVP to inform all Villagers who have United Health Villages plan and were over 65 that they membership would become free. We were told to go to a UHC Optum Group Website and put in your UHC card number and get an Optum number, which I did on January 1, 2018. Then the next day when MVP reopened I gave the front desk the number. They already charged my monthly dues as normal but three weeks later I got a charge-back on my CC and have never been charged since.
I've been receiving the Renew Magazine for about a year. I believe they changed the program name from Optum to Renew beginning of this year. This is the UHC plan that is accepted by The Villages Medical System, I go to the Brownwood medical facility and Dr. Raquet and pay no premiums. It's the best deal around.
As far as MVP increasing membership due to this plan, that ship has sailed. MVP Brownwood went from a nice quiet little gym to what it is now in the beginning of 2018. Most Villagers took advantage of this freebee back then and MVP was signing up 200 new members a day for quite awhile. They had to hire extra personnel just o give tours, they were coming in non-stop. It has really settled down the last month or so, even with the snowbirds Brownwood is tolerable now and I find many of those who joined because it was free, are not really dedicated to working out and have dropped out.