The Villages Health Care System, IIRC, did accept traditional Medicare, originally. They made the change to accepting only Medicare Advantage, initially the UHC flavor and then the added the Florida Blue flavor, a few years ago (perhaps 5 years?). They also continue to accept most insurance for folks under 65, regardless of where you live. Something clearly changed in their thinking. Perhaps they were, as you suggested, trying to limit the number of patients. They did lose patients when they went to Medicare Advantage only. There are also possible financial reasons. Regardless of the reason, for me it is unfortunate as I was quite satisfied and regretted having to find another PCP.
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Originally Posted by Summit Medigap
People should be very skeptical of any doctor/hospital or healthcare system that ONLY accepts Medicare Advantage. There is no reason for this other than they are somehow benefiting from forcing their patients to one company.
It's called The Villages Healthcare system because they want to serve Villages residents. If they accepted original Medicare patients, they would probably become overwhelmed by a lot of non-Villages residents from the surrounding areas, and they couldn't refuse service. If that happened, the system would no longer be attractive to Villagers.
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