As the House and Senate prepare to bring their final bills to their respective floors, Mayo Clinic would like to highlight the areas of agreement and divergence in the bills and our positions on health care reform. We are encouraged by much—including provisions to pay for value in health care, an insurance exchange, individual mandate, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mayo Clinic strongly supports President Obama’s call for health insurance reform and health care delivery reform, and agrees with the President’s position that the status quo is not acceptable. We believe that a bipartisan, collaborative approach is essential to achieving significant, patient-centered health care reform.
Mayo Clinic and the many organizations and individuals working with us [...]
Late yesterday, Mayo Clinic became aware of the concept of development of an Independent Medicare Advisory Council. We applaud the direction of this proposal. We view favorably the concept of an independent body that can move Medicare to a “value- based payment” model. An independent Medicare advisory commission focused on defining value, measuring it, and [...]
