The office of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has announced his office has obtained a settlement with Mayo Clinic over charity care and debt-collection practices.

Attorney General Keith Ellison announced Friday his office reached a settlement with the Mayo Clinic after investigating financial assistance policies.

Mayo Clinic is settling with the Minnesota Attorney General's office over charity care and medical debt limits. The nonprofit provider will change its debt collection practices at the close of a two-year investigation.

Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison announced Friday that he settled with Mayo Clinic over charity care and debt-collection procedures that allegedly violated its responsibilities as a nonprofit hospital.

The Minnesota Attorney General's office announced an investigation into Mayo Clinic's charity care practices in 2022.

The nonprofit is now prohibited from suing to collect medical debts except in ‘extraordinary circumstances,’ the attorney general says.

Attorney General Keith Ellison says the settlement requires Mayo Clinic to provide charity care to certain presumptively eligible patients and streamline their charity care application process.

The health system is now prohibited from suing patients to collect debt outside of "exceptional circumstances."

The Minnesota Attorney General's Office investigation into Mayo Clinic found that it deterred some patients from applying for and using financial assistance. Mayo's practices have since changed.