"......The Villages-USF Health partnership is now poised to revolutionize health care.
Over the coming months and years, The Villages Health will establish a new patient-focused model of care reminiscent of the days of Marcus Welby, the fictional family doctor whose warm bedside manner and availability was a sharp contrast from today’s medical system that compensates doctors for quantity rather than quality.
“Medicare is a lifesaving program but it has been set up in such a way that doctors are no longer able to care for us senior citizens in the same manner that we grew up with,” said Villages developer Gary Morse. “Medicare pays a doctor for every patient he sees, not how much time he spends with that patient. If the doctor sees 100 patients a day, he or she makes twice as much as seeing 50 patients.”
The result of that volume-driven system has changed the way most doctors operate.
“Now doctors are incentivized to go into business, hire a business manager, set up their own records system, buy their own testing equipment and get paid for every test they can give to as many patients as they can run through their office,” Morse said.
The Villages Health will operate differently. Physicians will be paid generous salaries that are not tied to the volume of patients seen in a day or the number of tests or procedures ordered. And although Medicare reimbursements will still be utilized, that payment system will no longer drive how patients are treated. The salaried physicians will be able to focus on their patients as individuals, giving them the personal time and attention they need......."
http://www.thevillages.com/usf-0310.htm
In other words, the partnership of The Villages and USF Health will set up and manage the business operations and costs, and consolidate the "business managers, records systems, testing equipment", and staffing more under one roof/system,
to reduce overhead costs and make Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance receipts go further toward paying the physicians a decent set salary that does not fluctuate downward due low reimbursements/collections and rising overhead costs like malpractice insurance and employee costs like wages and benefits.