Mayo Clinic in Arizona to Stop Treating Some Medicare Patients - Bloomberg News

Mayo Clinic in Arizona to Stop Treating Some Medicare Patients By David Olmos Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care, will stop accepting Medicare patients as of tomorrow at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying the U.S. government pays too little. More than 3,000 patients eligible for Medicare, the government’s largest health-insurance program, will be forced to pay cash if they want to continue seeing their doctors at a Mayo family clinic in Glendale, northwest of Phoenix, said Michael Yardley, a Mayo spokesman. The decision, which Yardley called a two-year pilot project, won’t affect other Mayo facilities in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota. For more go to: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aHoYSI84VdL0