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Does Mayo Clinic take Medicare?

Visiting Mayo Clinic | Last Active: Mar 19 12:45am | Replies (122)

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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..

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