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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 relations Star Tribune Novel Mayo technique improves outlook for […]

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March 14, 2014

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 relations Twin Cities Business Mayo’s Operating Profits Climb […]

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January 31, 2014

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 relations Modern Healthcare Symptoms, diagnosis and a prescription: How […]

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January 17, 2014

January 17, 2014 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 relations NY Times Ask Well: Is […]

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December 13, 2013

December 13, 2013 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 […]

Looking ahead, Noseworthy paves way for growth

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April 24, 2013

By Logan Lafferty

Editor’s note: The Mayo Clinic is working to stay at the forefront of healthcare delivery and medical research in an era of retrenchment in public resources. Modern Healthcare Washington Bureau Chief Jessica Zigmond caught up with Mayo Clinic President and CEO Dr. John Noseworthy during a visit to the nation’s capital this month. They discussed […]

Hospitals, Counties Partner to Reduce Medicare Patients’ Hospital Readmission Rates

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July 31, 2012

A new program in Eau Claire and Chippewa counties intended to keep Medicare patients recently released from hospitals from returning is receiving statewide attention. That’s partly because the transition intervention program appears to be working, but also because of a looming deadline from the federal Affordable Care Act that will penalize hospitals with high readmission […]

Medical Billing Codes Could Keep Some from Medicare Coverage

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June 15, 2012

It is a burden anyone who goes to a hospital must carry, and that is paying the bill. One Mayo Clinic patient is claiming that a difference in medical codes is keeping Medicare from covering a procedure. Charles Wannamaker and his wife are used to having certain procedures covered by Medicare, but when a wellness […]

Physicians Lack Time, Tools for Medicare’s Cognitive Screening Benefit

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February 9, 2012

Primary care physicians have one more item on their to-do lists: screening for cognitive impairment among Medicare beneficiaries. Under section 4103 of the Affordable Care Act, Congress added a new benefit that provides full coverage for an Annual Wellness Visit for all Medicare beneficiaries…”A lot of patients don’t ask for that exam, at least not […]

Medicare, Mayo Clinic and Misinformation

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April 19, 2010

A recent post by Compound Captive on Tucsoncitizen.com (April 15th) was a good example of the misinformation that is out there concerning the Health Care Reform Law and Medicare in general. Included in the post were several claims about Medicare that were incorrect… The main point of the Compound Captive post was that Mayo […]