Monthly Archives: October 2009

Difficult Business Decisions on Medicare, Medicaid at Mayo

At Mayo Clinic, we take pride in delivering efficient, high quality care to each individual patient.  As an organization that has focused on the patient’s needs for over 100 years, the decisions that Mayo made last week to op-out of Medicare participation in a small Arizona family practice clinic and to discontinue Medicaid participation in [...]

Mayo’s Dr. Cortese featured in NYTimes “Prescriptions” Blog

Denis Cortese, M.D.,  president and CEO of Mayo Clinic, took time during a trip to New York yesterday to visit with reporter Reed Abelson at the New York Times. Abelson authors the “Prescriptions” blog at the Times.
During the conversation, Dr. Cortese had the opportunity to share the Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center view on how [...]