A good reason to join TV Healthcare Clinics is because many doctors in private practice struggle to stay solvent with low Medicare reimbursement
and insurers defining "reasonable and customary" charges as "what Medicare pays".
The other good reason is that many people right here on this board complain about how their dr. here in FL orders endless tests and calls a person in for in-office visits just to give them a test result etc......because that's the only way they can actually make money with mostly Medicare patients.
Gary Morse had it exactly right when he said this in the beginning of this venture:
“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......."
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