I am a Medicare patient and Mayo Rochester accepted me for thorough testing five years ago. Phone them.

There is no simple yes or no answer to your question, it depends.

1. Which Mayo location do you plan on going to? Each location has it's own policy for Medicare.

2. What type of Medicare do you have, is it a Medicare Advantage program or original Medicare (A&B) with a supplemental? Again, each location has it's own policy on Advantage and Supplemental insurance and which ones they accept.

3. My understanding, it is hard to get appointments for new patents in Internal Medicine. The demand is high and only so many providers.

The only way you will know is to contact the location you want to go to and request an appointment.

Start here: https://www.mayoclinic.org/appointments

Good luck
Laurie

@migizii….I have attempted to be seen by internal medicine a few times and have always been denied stating they have no available openings. I have Medicare/supplement and applied to Rochester. The insurance was not the problem. .good luck!

It would be nice to have more Mayo Clinics through the country. The nearest one for me is almost 1300 miles away...

I am surprised they do not take your ins. most of those large facilities take all insurances. I know that make sure u take traditional MC when u take others that say they r MC a lot of them have horrible coverage. I know it’s very confusing also try and check the Rx plans closely.

Great I am glad to hear this, so hard to find good coverage😊💚💙

I think your insurance is only part of the issue with Mayo. I heard about their consultative Internal Medicine program thru my primary care provider at Johns Hopkins, who said some of his patients went to this program at Mayo. I am a physician myself and over the last 3 years have been struggling with finding a unifying diagnosis for the multiple symptoms I have been experiencing so naturally I was interested. I contacted Mayo and was told that their program would do the evaluation within 7-10 days and render a opinion. My current workup, and remember that is for a physician who has fairly clear idea of what specialties may be helpful, still was very disjointed and time-consuming. One specialty clinic told me I have to wait 9 months to be seen. Naturally I applied to the Mayo Consultative program to try to expedite this process. Sadly, after long hours on the phone first to sort our my insurance coverage, then taking the time to fill our a cursory survey, despite the fact that clearly I had already had an extensive evaluation by multiple Johns Hopkins specialists that could not come up with a diagnosis, I was turned down for evaluation by Mayo. No explanation given. The lesson learned here is don't think this program is the end-all for your problems. It is unclear to me what criteria they use to select for patients, maybe just the low-hanging fruits? Better to seek a good primary care internist who can coordinate your workup locally if at all possible. I realize this is a tall order in the state of Medicine today unfortunately, especially given a lot of experienced physicians have left the work force due to the pandemic. God help us all..