{"id":379455,"date":"2025-12-31T08:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/379455\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T08:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:30:06","slug":"medicare-billing-fiasco-sinks-the-villages-health-into-bankruptcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/379455\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare billing fiasco sinks The Villages Health into bankruptcy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">A Medicare billing fiasco sank The Villages Health into bankruptcy unraveling the Morse family\u2019s previously profitable venture into health care. It was the No. 1 story of 2025 in Villages-News.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Villages Health CEO Bobby Trinh announced in July that The Villages Health was seeking bankruptcy protection. The bankruptcy was intertwined with \u201cerroneous Medicare coding\u201d estimated at about $360 million. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.villages-news.com\/2025\/08\/01\/rent-payments-and-top-salaries-revealed-in-the-villages-health-bankruptcy-filing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trinh was paid a $200,000 \u201cretention bonus\u201d<\/a> the day before the bankruptcy announcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The bankruptcy and planned sale to Humana\u2019s CenterWell, prompted a series of court challenges from UnitedHealthcare, which had previously enjoyed a lucrative arrangement to market MedicareAdvantage plans to The Villages Health\u2019s more than 50,000 patients. UnitedHealthcare accused the Morse family of ringing tens of millions of dollars out of The Villages Health prior to the bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Nearly 15 years earlier, The Villages had announced a comprehensive effort to return patient care to a \u201cMarcus Welby\u201d approach to medicine, harkening back to a simpler time when patients much more intimately conversed one-on-one with their doctors. The Villages eventually backed off references to the kindly doctor portrayed by Robert Young in the \u201cMarcus Welby M.D.\u201d television show which debuted in 1969. It was said that the show\u2019s creators objected to the use of the fictional character for marketing purposes.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>Comments have been temporarily disabled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Medicare billing fiasco sank The Villages Health into bankruptcy unraveling the Morse family\u2019s previously profitable venture into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":{"0":"post-379455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}