Over 20 leaders in health care from across the country today wrote to Senator Max Baucus and members of the Senate Finance Committee to voice their support of key provisions in proposed legislation, and to offer additional thoughts on moving Medicare to pay for value.
These leaders agree that only way to improve health care delivery [...]
Mayo Clinic’s perspective about how to get high-value health care is the focus of a Perspectives article in the New England Journal of Medicine, published online on Sept. 23, 2009, and in the print issue on Oct. 1, 2009.
“We must hold physicians and other providers accountable for providing high-value health care, defined in terms of [...]
We applaud the House and the Senate for their ongoing efforts to obtain universal coverage for all Americans and to reform the current insurance system through measures such as eliminating pre-existing condition exclusions.
Mayo Encouraged by Co-op Public Option
Mayo Clinic believes that the provision in Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus’ bill to foster the creation [...]
Mayo Clinic supports Senator Maria Cantwell’s (D-WA) amendment to incentivize value in the Medicare physician payment formula in the Senate Finance Committee health care reform bill.
Mayo Clinic and the Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center strongly support the need for Medicare to pay for value. Indeed, paying for value in healthcare is one of the four [...]
Mayo Clinic believes that the provision in the Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus’ bill to foster the creation of consumer operated and oriented plans (CO-OP) is an encouraging step toward securing access to insurance to all Americans.
This option will give patients more opportunities for health care choice than a Medicare-like, price controlled plan. In [...]
Mayo Clinic applauds Senators Amy Klobuchar (MN), Maria Cantwell (WA) and 26 other Senators for urging President Obama to realign Medicare spending in order to provide greater value to patients and lower costs.
In a letter to the President, the bipartisan group focuses on the many benefits of instituting payment models in Medicare that would reward [...]
An article in today’s Washington Post, entitled “Is the Mayo Clinic a Model or a Mirage? Jury is Still Out” highlights Mayo Clinic and similar institutions as part of the national health reform debate.
ROCHESTER, Minn. — The Mayo Clinic looms out of the prairie here like the mecca it has become, a world-renowned medical complex [...]
Dr. Denis Cortese, President & CEO of the Mayo Clinic, discussed health care reform at the National Press Club (NPC) on Sep. 18, 2009. He emphasized the importance of both health insurance and health care delivery reform and the critical need to appropriately reward providers that deliver high quality, affordable health care. Watch the entire speech on C-SPAN.
Dr. Cortese appeared on the Washington Journal Sep. 18, 2009 and discussed the clinic’s systems and practices. Watch the entire interview on C-SPAN.
Mayo Clinic appreciates the hard work and dedication of Senator Baucus in moving the health care reform debate forward.
Mayo is optimistic about the direction that Senator Baucus’s proposal lays out to ensure access to health insurance for all Americans. The proposed health insurance exchanges and a consumer owned and oriented plan will allow doctors and [...]
