About Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center

Through the Health Policy Center, Mayo Clinic hopes to play a leadership role in trying to bring about crucial reforms in the American health care system.

The Health Policy Center will act as the glue and the spur to help major stakeholders in health policy find common ground on proposals to implement fundamental reform.

One of Mayo's strengths as a medical institution is bringing together different medical experts to find an integrated solution to a patient's problem. Mayo is taking the same approach to find solutions for our national health care concerns.

Mayo Clinic has the advantage of long-standing, vital relationships within the intersecting circles of the health care industry, business, academia, and government.

Mayo's position offers some advantages:

• The center will not be focused around a particular interest group or political stance. It will provide an impartial and objective voice that is based only on the premise that the "good of the whole" is more important than "the interests of a few."
• Mayo Clinic's focus on the needs of patients is a voice that is not always heard in national reform discussions. The center's location in Rochester, Minn., will help keep it grounded in the real world needs of patients and providers.
• The center will develop a matrix of collaborators from many disciplines and sectors, to help ensure that issues are analyzed from all sides. Credibility and expertise will come not just from Mayo, but from all the members of the network that the center will build.

Executive Director

Jeff Korsmo

Jeff Korsmo has been the director of the Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center since 2008. Korsmo is the former chief administrative office for Mayo Clinic in Rochester. He has also served in many leadership roles within Mayo Clinic for more than 25 years and has been active in health care finance and other policy issues for Mayo Clinic and its patients on a national level.