Jeff Korsmo, Executive Director of the Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center, will join representatives from AARP, Pfizer, the Minnesota Visiting Nurse Agency, the University of Minnesota, Crutchfield Dermatology, Virginia Piper Cancer Institute and Ucare to discuss the current environment for health care reform — why we need it and what could [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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.
