An emergency hearing has been scheduled for Monday afternoon on critical operational funding needed to keep The Villages Health up and running.
The hearing is set for 2 p.m in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Orlando. It is hope that the court will a plan that would enable The Villages Health “to maintain ongoing operations and ensure the availability of essential medical care for its more than 55,000 patients.”
The 55,000 patients, as well as the 900 employees of The Villages Health, are in uncertain waters after The Villages Health CEO Bobby Trinh announced in July that The Villages Health was seeking bankruptcy protection. The bankruptcy is intertwined with “erroneous Medicare coding” that could force The Villages Health to repay as much as $360 million to the U.S. government…