Preferred Care Partners offered a Medicare Advantage plan in our area, in addition to throughout South Florida.
Last year they were purchased by United Health Care. It is UCH that terminated the PCP plan, but only in our area.
In my opinion, they did this to support the exclusive deal they made to be the sole Medicare Advantage partner to The Villages Health Care clinics. They only wanted the PCP customers. Unfortunately, the replacement plan comes at a substantially higher cost. In my case I have calculated that additional cost to be about $4,700 over what I paid out in 2013 with PCP.
Since insurance companies are regulated by the State, it is outrageous that they allowed UHC to suppress a competitor in order for them to do an exclusive deal with VHC clinics.
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