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Chapter 12
Your Primary-Care Teams
Dr. Nicholas LaRusso, the Mayo Clinic’s director of the Center for
Innovation, has made it very clear that Mayo is profoundly committed to
driving value in the delivery of its services. And he’s been equally clear
in his assertion that this value will be led by Mayo’s primary-care teams.
The intent is not to downgrade specialization, but to acknowledge that
extracting greater outcome-based value from specialist procedural practice
requires integration.
After taking a balanced look at the competition of specialization and
the demand for outcomes in the marketplace, we know this is no less true
for us. Devis ...