Items Tagged ‘Medicare’

March 10, 2010

Billboard critical of Mayo Clinic medicare decision taken down

By Kelley Luckstein

A West Valley doctors practice has drawn the ire of Mayo Clinic after erecting a Sun City billboard that poked fun at Mayo’s decision to no longer accept Medicare for primary care at its Glendale clinic.   The billboard’s message: “Seniors, Mayo may not take your Medicare any longer, but we still do … and […]

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Tags: Arrowhead Health, billboard, Medicare


January 27, 2010

WEISS: Mayo Clinic kicks Medicare to the curb

By Kelley Luckstein

When President Obama stands before the nation to give his State of the Union address, he might want to set his health care reform sights a little lower, focusing on fixing the parts of the health care system already run in Washington…   Case in point: the Mayo Clinic. It’s being touted as a role […]

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January 15, 2010

Why Doctors Are Abandoning Medicare

By Kelley Luckstein

Two weeks ago the Mayo Clinic shocked the nation when it closed the doors of one of its Arizona clinics to patients on Medicare. Just this past June President Obama himself praised Mayo as a model of medical efficiency noting that Mayo gives “the highest quality care at costs well below the national norm.”   […]

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January 13, 2010

Physicians on Sermo Admire Mayo Clinic of Arizona for Dropping Medicare; Fear Government Intervention

By Kelley Luckstein

Sermo (http://www.sermo.com), the world’s largest online community for physicians, today announced its weekly hot topic. 850 physicians participated in a Sermo post — including a discussion and online poll — about the Mayo Clinic of Arizona’s plan to drop Medicare as a third-party payer for primary care in 2010. Mayo reported losses of $840 million […]

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January 11, 2010

Pelosi speaks about latest health care obstacles

By Kelley Luckstein

Nancy Pelosi was back in San Francisco talking about the president’s model for health care reform and it’s in trouble. The mayo Clinic says it will no longer accept Medicare patients at its clinic in Arizona because they’re losing too much money.  This announcement by the Mayo Clinic is very significant because the president and […]

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January 11, 2010

Medicare and the Mayo Clinic

By Kelley Luckstein

The famous hospital will no longer take some senior patients. President Obama last year praised the Mayo Clinic as a “classic example” of how a health-care provider can offer “better outcomes” at lower cost. Then what should Americans think about the famous Minnesota medical center’s decision to take fewer Medicare patients? Specifically, Mayo said last […]

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January 7, 2010

Coverage of Mayo Clinic AZ Medicare Mentions

By Kelley Luckstein

Reality Check:Clarification regarding Mayo Clinic and Medicare The Mayo Clinic wrote to us stating it’s the clinic in Glendale, Arizona that will no longer accept Medicare patients as we reported. The other clinics will continue to do so. We’re happy to get that message out.   FOX News – The O’Reilly Factor, 1/6/10     […]

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Tags: Arizona, Medicare


January 6, 2010

Mayo Clinic AZ Medicare News Coverage

By Kelley Luckstein

Health bills would shift Medicare money to Mayo and other ‘high-value’ hospitals As House and Senate lawmakers start to reconcile their health-care bills with an eye to final passage, a little-noticed provision is already prompting celebration from a small group of influential hospitals that stand to gain millions in Medicare dollars…   A revised Medicare […]

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January 4, 2010

A Mayo Clinic Outpost Won’t Take Medicare

By Kelley Luckstein

About 3,000 Medicare patients who’ve been getting care at a Mayo Clinic facility in Arizona will have to pay out of their own pocket or find another doctor.   Starting in 2010 (i.e., next week), the five primary care docs at a Mayo outpost in Glendale, Ariz. will stop accepting Medicare. Patients in the program […]

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December 31, 2009

Mayo Clinic in Arizona to Stop Treating Some Medicare Patients

By barb-caldeira

The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care, will stop accepting Medicare patients as of tomorrow at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying the U.S. government pays too little.   More than 3,000 patients eligible for Medicare, the government’s largest health-insurance program, will be forced […]

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