We have United Health Care Plan F. Expensive at about $230 per month per person w/o drug plan. I spent 30 hours in the Villages emergency room and hospital in March. Estimated bill came to over $10,000. I disregarded it. 4 months later my final bill came at $37.14 after Medicare and after Plan F. Be sure to review these plans yearly because they can change.

From first hand experience they do accept "regular" medicare and medicare supplement.

They also have a "quota" of how many medicare patients they will take on.

A couple of years ago I was referred to Mayo/Jacksonville by my primary care doc. They were very polite and efficient accepting all my information and assigning me a case number.

Then they informed me that the medicare "quota" was full.....this was in September 2014.....I asked if they had a waiting list. She said no but I could call back to check every now and then. And oh by the way it won't do much good to call until sometime after January 2015!!!

The did give the option to contact physicians with the specualty that I needed, that left Mayo and had their own private practice. Which disappointedly accepted.

I did not pursue the option of self pay as I was not in a lifel threatening predicament.

The alternate my doc suggested was Shands in Gainesville.
Similar process. With two major exceptions. No discussion of medicare quota.....and I had an appointment within two weeks!!!

None of the above is to be construed as a complaint.

You can Google their medicare requirements and it is stated there is a limitation for medicare.

Good luck.

This is just not true! These kinds of statements without the "rest of the story", run wild in the Villages gossip ring!