Does Mayo Clinic take Medicare?

I don’t understand your answer. I have been a patient of Mayo in Jacksonville, FL since they opened. At a certain point Mayo and my Insurance Company coils not come to an agreement about fees for 2 years. When they accepted my insurance company again, I had turned 65.
They don’t take new Medicare patients.
I still see a neuro surgeon and pain doctor, but can’t get any other physician.
I am even willing to take a resident as my family physician. What can I do?

I'm sorry I was responding to mpeters, I was basically saying that the social workers are a great asset to help figure out problems with anything really not just Insurance, so I apologize I was not responding directly to your situation.
I'm in Arizona and the Mayo here dosnt have primary care doctors so I'm not familiar with how Insurance works with Mayo primary care. I personally use a non Mayo doctor for my primary. So maybe you may have to seek a non Mayo doctor for primary care.

Henny, I might suggest calling an Insurance coordinator at the Mayo Clinic FL campus. Here is the contact information
- Insurance & Billing: Contact https://www.mayoclinic.org/patient-visitor-guide/billing-insurance/contact-us

I have a no Mayo doctor as my primary. The problem is that when he refers me to Mayo, the answer is that they have too many patients. Demand is too great.

Have you tried to talk with the social worker dept?

@naturegirl5 This is a great conversation. Helen, I did just as you suggested and called the Mayo billing office to find out which Supplemental insurance plans (Medigap) were accepted at Mayo Clinic with Traditional Medicare. They are designated by the letters either "F" or "G", and are named after the issuing company such as Mutual of Omaha, etc. At lot of Medigap plans have local limits and don't allow a patient to travel out of their own state for medical care, but there are a few that may have nationwide coverage, such as Mutual of Omaha or a United Health Care that is purchased through membership in AARP. (that information subject to change by insurance companies)

You are correct in staying with traditional Medicare in order to have care available nationwide. If you take a Medicare Advantage Plan (not the same as Medicare), you are stuck with their local networks and it is very difficult to be able to get off them and on to Traditional Medicare after that. Unfortunately, the commercials for these advantage plans bombard us with aging celebrities and sports figures promoting them promising all kinds of things like cash back, gym memberships and dental plans that you can get if you call the number to check your zip code. If you accept these promotions, you will be giving up your right to chose care out of your state of residence and will be limited to doctors in their network only.

I want to be able to come back to Mayo if I need further care in the future, and I don't live in any of the 3 states where there are Mayo campuses. I just signed up for Medicare, and will be choosing the supplement insurance soon which is denoted as a "G" plan. Traditional Medicare is part "A & B." Part "C" is an advantage plan that I am avoiding. Part "D" is for prescription drugs. There is a part "F", and if you have "F" or "G" depends on some criteria. You can have one or the other. If you choose the Advantage plan, you only have "C". If you choose Traditional Medicare you will have "A" + "B" + "D" (if you select a prescription drug plan) + either "F or G".

Great explanation! I would only add that people with Advantage plans do pay less BUT LOSE CHOICE. One must go to the doctors in their network. I have traditional Medicare with Medigap plan that lets me go where I want. I self-referred to Mayo for lung cancer and got an immediate appointment and surgery set up promptly. I did not have the anguish of waiting to get approval for anything, nor did I need a referral from my primary care doctor. The commercials on TV are outrageous and should not be allowed.

Thanks for bringing that up. I have some friends who wanted to save money so they went with Advantage plans. One of them needed dermatological surgery, so instead of being seen locally, she had to drive 200 miles to get the procedure done.

I had traditional Medicare combined with a Plan F. This gave me close to absolute freedom in selecting doctors and have zero to very minimal copay. For this year, I fell victim to the advertising and took out a Medicare Advantage Plan, and I am nickel-ing and dime-ing my self to death with co-pays for almost everything.
I will go back to a Plan F for next year. Mayo Clinic Jacksonville informed me recently that they will not accept advantage plans anymore.
The advantage plans are OK if you see a doc for the common cold only, as soon as you need specialists they are way to expensive.