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Originally Posted by Rainger99
With all of the issues with TVH, is anyone considering dropping The Villages Health
(TVH)?
I am currently with Advantage UHC but I am waiting to see what the options are for next year.
I think the period to change from Advantage to Medicare is from Oct. 15 to Dec. 7. The MA plans have to come out with their prices in the next six weeks and with all of the uncertainty of the TVH bankruptcy, I am definitely looking at other options.
At this point, we don't know if TVH will still be in bankruptcy next year and we don't know how many doctors will leave and what will happen if Humana buys TVH. There are a lot of questions and it is tough to make any decision because no one is giving us any answers.
If you are considering changing, I would suggest looking into the various options sooner rather than later.
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I don't start Medicare until May, and can't start enrollment until February. I have no idea what I'm going to do when the time comes, because I have no idea what plans will be available to me until then.
I have a normal "bronze" plan now, which has low premiums but high out of pocket costs and limited coverage (my radiation therapy cost me $80/day, five days a week, for 5 weeks, and that didn't even put a dent in my out of pocket cost maximum for the year).
I don't even know what I'm going to do for the January-May period. Maybe I'll stick with what I have and hope I don't get sick or injured until Medicare kicks in. Or maybe I'll go for broke, pick an expensive plan with low OOP costs, and hope I need an emergency hip replacement during the first quarter of the year.
I'll have to wait until October, when the insurance companies finally inform us all what the new plans will be and how much it's going to cost us.