The Villages Health system employs primary care doctors, and they do not original accept original Medicare. They only accept a few select Medicare advantage plans. But, there are a lot of primary care doctors outside The Villages who do accept original Medicare patients. I think one reason for this rule is that The Villages Health system wants to make the Health facilities, constructed on Villages property, accessible to Villages residents. If they accepted original Medicare patients, they would be overloaded with non-Villages residents, and they would not be able accommodate Villages residents. That is because they could not legally give any priority to Villages residents over non-Villages residents. It would defeat the purpose of building health care facilities on Villages property.
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