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Inguinal hernia Surgery in AZ: time between appointment and surgery?
Visiting Mayo Clinic | Last Active: Oct 18, 2016 | Replies (7)Comment receiving replies
Hello @johnpais1 and welcome to Connect.
This patient guide will give you a general overview about becoming a patient at Mayo Clinic's campus in Arizona:
http://mayocl.in/2dNKvd8
Several Connect members have shared their experiences about traveling to Mayo Clinic and the efficiency of planning a visit that involves testing, surgery and consults. @cynaburst @gailfaith @johnbishop @kdubois are a few that can tell you how it worked for them.
If you call the AZ campus http://mayocl.in/1mtmR63 they will help plan your visit to make it as efficient as possible. Did you know that they even have free travel services? @gailfaith can tell you more about that.
@johnpais1 do you know whether the surgery will be an open hernia repair or a laparoscopy?
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gailfaith here! I've been to Minn Mayo twice and the first time (2013) I apparently I used Mayo Travel to help with the airlines. I live two blocks from Lancaster PA airport and a small airline flies to Dulles and then thru Mayo Travel, I connected with a two more flights from Dulles to Minneapolis then to Rochester.. I had to book the local airline tickets.myself.
This time I used frequent flier miles and Mayo Travel can't work with them. Going things were fine as I booked everything myself. However, when I got to Minnesota, Mayo changed my schedule to accommodate surgery and I had to pay $150 to change flights Had I NOT used my frequent flier miles, and had booked thru Mayo Travel, that fee would have been waived..
Returning home was another story as the line flying from Dulles back to Lancaster had changed hands during the week I was gone and my return flight was cancelled. However, there was another woman also booked for that flight. They asked if we wanted to drive and she said if she wanted to drive she wouldn't have flown. . So gracelessly they got a van and driver and drove me to my front door and the other lady to the airport where her car was parked.
Mayo Travel can't work with a small airline or with frequent flier miles but otherwise they are a great go-between you and scheduling,
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Thank You. The information has been very helpful and reassuring.