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.
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A "Practicing" Physician's Washington, DC Experience by Scott Barbour, MD
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My alarm clock went off at 3:45 a.m. I dragged myself out of bed, wiping the sleep from my eyes, exhausted since I operated for about 10 hours that day getting home after ten p.m. I got dressed and I was off to the races. Although dead on my feet, I believed that this trip was imperative for my children’s future. As the plane circled over the capital, I thought about the day ahead and what was in store for our country if we did not succeed.
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