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 [...]
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 [...]
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, along with 18 other health care organizations around the country, sent an open letter to Congress on July 22.
In addition, on July 19, 2009 the Chicago Tribune published “Bending the Curve on Health Spending” authored by Denis Cortese, M.D. and Jeff Korsmo.
In case you missed the June 24 broadcast, President Obama was on ABC News Primetime discussing health care reform. In a question-and-answer format, the president spent an hour and a half describing his vision for health care in the US. Yet again, he mentioned Mayo Clinic (about twelve minutes in to the program) as a [...]
In an exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC’s Good Morning America President Obama continued to point to Mayo Clinic as an example of health care that delivers better outcomes at lower cost. The interview precedes a town hall meeting on health care reform being held at the White House on June 24, 2009. Responding [...]
