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Does Mayo Clinic take Medicare?
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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.
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Exactly. And Mayo Clinic stopped taking Advantage Plans ....only recently did they renegotiate with one provider here in MN. Advantage Plans cost the government more and provide less choice and freedom. It is heart breaking to read about someone with something serious and they are WAITING for approval to see a specialist or to get a PET scan. Then they advertise you get dental and vision, but I am very fussy about dentists! Whatever I overpaid for my Medigap policy these last ten years, I have now made up because I had serious stuff and I went to Mayo for lung surgery and a cardiac stent.