Villages Healthcare joining forces with United Healthcare
In the beginning, we were told that The Villages Health Care system was going to be very different. It was going to revolutionize health care and be the model that the rest of the world would follow - the "Marcus Welby" approach.
In yesterday's Daily Sun (Feb. 23, 2013), there was an article: "Villages continues to make health care top priority". (This was on the front page of section C) In this article, the big news is that The Villages Health Care is joining forces with United Healthcare. United Healthcare owns and operates Medicare Advantage plans like Prefered Care Partners, of which I am a member.
The relationship, as the article pointed out, has the potential to deliver high-quality and cost-effective care. It seems like The Villages Healthcare system is going to be run like a Medicare Advantage Plan in that it may adopt many of the same operating procedures. Is that a fair assumption?
Draw your own conclusions but it no longer sounds like what I described in my first first paragraph. Could this article have been their way of breaking the news slowly that the villages Healthcare may end up being another Medicare Advantage Plan? Is it possible, or likely, that United is overseeing the development and then may eventually buy out the developer and turn it into a Medicare Advantage Plan?
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