← Return to Seniors with Medicare, is Mayo worth the hassle?

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@peck1944

Hi. I just spoke with Mayo in Jacksonville yesterday and I still cannot get an appointment in the GI department. I asked if there might be a possibility at Mayo in Phoenix and they didn’t know. I live in Jax and I don’t have confidence in the other facilities here to treat my gastroparesis. The Nissan Fundaplication from 5 years ago is failing and I have another hiatal hernia. Medicare is my primary insurance and I also have BlueCross BlueShield. Mayo doesn’t want Medicare patients. I am just trying to manage on my own. No medical care is better than poor medical care. I hope you are successful in getting Mayo to take you.

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Wow Peck, sorry to hear that 3 years on you are still in this bind. You are right, POOR medical care is to be avoided. We would love to stay with Mayo if we reasonably can. We were told that Medicare "does not take new patients that are on Medicare". But, since my wife and I were only on BCBS, not yet 65, we were welcomed and then "grandfathered in" when Medicare started.