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Originally Posted by BrianL99

If you're on TVHS, you're on a Medical Advantage Plan ... which means you don't have control of your healthcare, your provider does. You're on a "managed plan", which is exactly what it sounds like ... they manage, you suffer.

Medicare Advantage Plans are paid a fixed amount by the Medicare program and they have to services their clientele with that amount of money, less the "freebies" they give out, to get people to sign on. There's currently an open enrollment period (until 3/31) when you can switch out of an Advantage Plan. Unfortunately, if you switch out in Florida, you're not guaranteed coverage or pricing.

Medicare Advantage plans are popular, but some seniors feel trapped when ill : Shots - Health News : NPR

2023 51% of all seniors are on an Advantage plan. That's a lot of suffering ! Apparently misery likes company - lots of it !