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Medicare and Mayo Clinic: What does Medicare cover?
Visiting Mayo Clinic | Last Active: Mar 15 5:55pm | Replies (31)Comment receiving replies
@lindes The business between Medicare and Mayo and some of the other labs and clinics is about the weakest part of USA medicine. If you really want to yell and scream, try to find a genetic clinic that will do a whole genome sequencing after Medicare says it will be covered. It's no wonder suicide is so common among genetics patients. @oldkarl
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Mayo has it's own genetic clinic, and I was there, and had to pay for the consultation out of my own pocket, because Medicare refused to pay even for that one.
If I (or the docs) can't show a good reason for my health needs to have this testing done, they just don't pay for it.
I know that I have quite a few genetic mutations, but none is rely negative for my health. As long as I was still working, i could do some of these tests in my own lab, but i am retired now, and have no facilities available to me (and not enough specific knowledge either)..
Medicare does not really care that you learn that you have genetic problems, and to find out that you are different.
Linde