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The Mayo Clinic in Arizona, as of tomorrow, will no longer accept patients who are on Medicare.
Medicare patients are no longer going to be accepted due to the fact that the compensation paid out by Medicare is apparently not adequate to make up for the cost of care taken on by the clinic.
For people who are 65 and older, Medicare acts as the most common health insurance program.
What this means is that many patients on Medicare are either going to have to begin to pay in cash, or be turned away to go elsewhere outside of the Mayo Clinic.
The Mayo Clinic has roughly 3,000 patients on Medicare who see their doctors in Arizona.
As of tomorrow though, they will either have to pay in cash for their doctor visits, or go somewhere else.
This is only for the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, as this does not impact their other locations in Florida and Minnesota.
A lot of this has to do with the fact that doctors make far less treating Medicare patients than they do treating patients on private health insurance plans.
Medicare patients are no longer going to be accepted due to the fact that the compensation paid out by Medicare is apparently not adequate to make up for the cost of care taken on by the clinic.
For people who are 65 and older, Medicare acts as the most common health insurance program.
What this means is that many patients on Medicare are either going to have to begin to pay in cash, or be turned away to go elsewhere outside of the Mayo Clinic.
The Mayo Clinic has roughly 3,000 patients on Medicare who see their doctors in Arizona.
As of tomorrow though, they will either have to pay in cash for their doctor visits, or go somewhere else.
This is only for the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, as this does not impact their other locations in Florida and Minnesota.
A lot of this has to do with the fact that doctors make far less treating Medicare patients than they do treating patients on private health insurance plans.
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