I think your health care team in any area can forward/request/questions to ortho or other area since Mayo is a multidisplinary patient centered healthcare system. At least that's been my experience at Rochester Mayo Clinic and using the patient portal. I was just thinking it may be an easy option and worth a try.

@kidddrocks I wanted to chime in and say that the doctor you saw at Mayo is your primary contact there, and they will refer you to other specialists as needed, so it is perfectly acceptable to ask for a referral to another department. I was a spine surgery patient on my first visit to Mayo. 2 years later, I asked the spine surgeon to refer me to a pulmonologist for a return visit which he did. Then a couple years later, I broke my ankle, and asked my spine surgeon for a recommendation, and he sent me to a good ortho trauma surgeon at Mayo for surgery, and I had a phone call from the ortho's assistant and an appointment for consult 2 days later within an hour of my asking for help. I had a surgery date scheduled 2 days after my consult because of the protocol of waiting for Covid test results before surgery. My spine surgeon also said that he would trust his own family's care to this orthopedic surgeon, and that was good enough for me because my care was excellent with my spine surgeon, and I valued his opinion. I had one chance to get it right for my recovery and just didn't know where to find an excellent surgeon, so coming back to Mayo took that worry away.