Well, I can tell you that Mayo Jax is no better as far as denying patients. Neurology wouldn’t see my husband because it had been over 3 years since he had seen a neurologist there. Just this last week, he was actually given an appt with a gastro dr and they called back and cancelled it. He had an endoscopy and colonoscopy by a dr in that Dept. just in May. But he is having issues with his hemoglobin count and his local hematologist referred him back to that gastro. He was told that wasn’t this drs specialty and he would have to be referred by a Mayo dr. Hopefully we can get that done tomorrow when he sees his cardiologist there. As a triple negative breast cancer patient, I have seen drs. in several depts. and have no trouble getting referred to another by my oncologist there. We are also on Medicare if that seems to make a difference. I know we can’t get into Mayo primary care being on Medicare....tried that when we got fed up with local drs. So it doesn’t seem to make a difference that you are an established Mayo patient. You have to be established in a particular Dept. to get an appt. We drive for 1 1/4 hrs. for these appts so it made sense to have local primary care drs. Big Mistake....huge mistake. They are just getting too busy to handle the volume of patients is my guess but it is very frustrating to say the least.

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