Originally Posted by
Sangye
drz, Mayo doesn't accept Medicare? I wonder if that's regional, because the Arizona Mayo Clinic was full of elderly folks. If you have Medicare a non-Medicare provider cannot treat you-- it's illegal.
It isn't that Mayo doesn't accept Medicare, it's that one should have a good supplemental to pay the 'excess' rates Mayo sometimes charges...Medicare won't pay that. At Mayo, my charges, on the bill, always indicate (and Mayo's payment tables show it) that Mayo adds some kind of charge above other hospitals' similar rates. It's not a regional thing, they declared this over a year ago to my best knowledge.
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