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Does Mayo Clinic take Medicare?
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You should be aware of this
info : my husband has NSCLC
I requested info about getting a 2nd opinion from the Mayo Clinic. I have an HMO advantage plan. The representative of the Mayo Clinic that I had the luck of the draw to speak to said, we are not contracted with your HMO. I understand that. I then asked what about if I self pay, her answer was , because we are not contracted with your insurance the federal government does not allow us to offer that.
Hmmm? I cannot find a federal law that says that anywhere! What if I didn't have insurance , is there a federal law that doesn’t allow them to offer self pay to me then either!?
To top all this off, when I requested the procedure of my insurance to request the second opinion with Mayo, my carriers insurance representative told me, I will check for you, but the Mayo Clinic is not accepting any patients from our insurance plan. I asked why would that be? He said, and I am not kidding, I’m not sure, I think they don’t like working with our insurance??!! Oh my goodness! Really!?! Presbyterian senior plan needs to be aware of his response!!!
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I called the Mayo clinic today and still was denied scheduling an appointment, however , the woman said because they are contracted with Medicare we cannot offer self pay to you with an advantage plan. I guess that's the federal law the first woman was trying to tell me. I said what if I was uninsured, or insured and didn't want to use my insurance and wanted to self pay? Her answer to that was, we would know by your age that you would have some kind of coverage and they only accepted Medicare. If they couldn't pull up our information under Medicare they would know we had an advantage plan , and they only have a contract with Medicare. The woman kept talking to me like I was kindergartner! I kept telling her that I understood what she was saying. What I could not understand is why they would turn away a patient, a patient that was willing to pay out of pocket. Why are they turning away money??
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