Jim Thompson wrote:
Important Health Care Announcement...

Mayo Clinic (Glendale, AZ) announced today that they will no longer
accept future Medicare patients, etc...

http://industry.bnet.com/healthcare/...care-payments/


Old news. From October:

http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/stor...id=OTC-RSS-FH0

Mayo Clinic performance rating comes under scrutiny

"The White House has praised the Mayo Clinic and other Midwest clinics for
performance ratings, but critics argue that Mayo's low- to no-acceptance of
Medicare/Medicaid skews the results.

Critics say the high scores in the Dartmouth College rankings do not reflect
Mayo's refusal to accept Medicare for patients in its Arizona facility or
that only five percent of patients in its flagship Minnesota facility are on
Medicaid.

The clinics have collectively leveraged their high-performance rankings,
critics say, to insert favorable language in healthcare legislation
provisions to reward themselves with higher Medicare payments. The language
would also punish facilities with low rankings--primarily in the South and
in larger U.S. cities."


Looks like their plan to sucker legislators suckered you.