May 17, 2019
Mayo Clinic Expands Deeper Into Worksite Care With New Partner
Forbesby Bruce Japsen The Mayo Clinic is partnering with Premise Health to improve healthcare for workers at large companies that already receive Premise’s primary care, occupational health and pharmacy services at its wellness centers. Premise is focused on primary care and wellness services to self-insured employers so the arrangement with Mayo will add the noted […]
Tags: Dr. David Hayes, Forbes, occupational health, pharmacy services, Premise Health, primary care
April 26, 2013
Noseworthy: Not All Health Care Is Equal
In America, we’ve come to expect the best of everything. However, when it comes to health care, we pay more in this country than anywhere else in the world — yet the United States falls behind other countries on measures of health outcomes. Millions of Americans do not have or cannot afford the health care […]
Tags: complex care, Dr. John Noseworthy, Health Care, intermediate care, payment model, primary care, Roll Call Opinion
February 12, 2013
Extremely challenging. That’s how Jodi Lorenson, a physician recruiter, describes the task of finding primary care physicians…Despite rising salaries, richer benefits and a higher profile, a significant number of medical school graduates, even those in internal medicine residency programs, continue to favor other specialties over primary care, says Colin West, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor […]
Tags: Dr. Colin West, Internal Medicine, Jodi Lorenson, Minnesota Medicine, physician recruit, primary care
December 7, 2012
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
December 7, 2012 Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media […]
Tags: : ABC News Radio, ABC News, Argentina Star, Ariz., Arizona Republic, Bloomberg, Cancer, CBS News This Morning, Chicago Tribune, Choline C 11, Clinical Advisor, Col. Walter Franz
November 20, 2009
Mayo Clinic in W. Valley opting out of Medicare for primary care
Low reimbursements have led one West Valley medical facility to stop taking certain Medicare patients, a pilot program that an Arizona health-care expert says may become a long-term trend in the industry… The Mayo Clinic announced in October that its Arrowhead Family Medicine practice will stop taking Medicare payments for primary-care services… “We […]
Tags: Medicare, primary care
August 10, 2009
Number of primary care physicians isn’t keeping pace with a growing need for them
Most students enrolled in medical school today have never even heard of Marcus Welby, the beloved, ever-caring, attentive television doctor…”Most medical students enter medical school today believing in that Marcus Welby, M.D., persona,” said Tim Davlantes, a family physician with Mayo Clinic Jacksonville and president of the Florida Academy of Family Physicians. “They may not […]
Tags: medical school, primary care