Mayo Clinic has reached a settlement with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison's office that makes certain patients presumptively eligible for charity care and limits how the health system collects on medical debt. The Rochester-based nonprofit healthcare provider, which denied wrongdoing and disputed the attorney general's findings, will no longer collect debts through lawsuits other than in "extraordinary circumstances," according to Ellison's office. The agreement between the health care provider and the state's chief enforcer of consumer protection laws ended a two-year investigation into allegations that Mayo Clinic was suing to collect on debts from patients who were eligible for charity care.
