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Mayo Clinic in Arizona to Stop Treating Some Medicare Patients
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| Contributor | Penn Con |
| Last Edited | Penn Con Dec 31, 2009 10:45am |
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| Category | News |
| Author | David Olmos |
| News Date | Thursday, December 31, 2009 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | 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 to pay cash if they want to continue seeing their doctors at a Mayo family clinic in Glendale, northwest of Phoenix, said Michael Yardley, a Mayo spokesman. The decision, which Yardley called a two-year pilot project, won’t affect other Mayo facilities in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota.
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