[KeepingItReal]

Originally Posted by dbussone

Any hospital that says Medicare is paying below its costs is a bloated organization, or not telling the truth. I've run both for-profit and not-for-profit systems. We always made money on Medicare patients. Why would companies like HCA, Tenet, Florida Hospital, and Orlando Health, etc operate in FL and do so well if they could not make money taking care of Medicare patients. Now Medicaid is a different story.

Agree for sure, Also doubt if there is much indigent care done in the Villages unlike a lot of hospitals and most every patient has at least Medicare or better to pay the bills.



It says: "United Healthcare pays royalty fees to Holding Co. of The Villages, Inc." it does not say the Villages subsidizes anything..