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Pain management doctors who accept Medicare in Birmingham, AL
CMS lists 15 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Birmingham. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 14. Offer telehealth: 2.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 35205 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $122, of which you pay about $31; a follow-up visit $94, of which you pay about $23 — the 20% coinsurance after the yearly Part B deductible. Clinicians who don't accept assignment can charge up to 15% more; with a Medicare Advantage plan, your plan's copay applies instead.
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Order: clinicians who accept assignment first, then by MIPS score (highest first), then by last name.
Michael S. Kendrick, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 92.4/100Graduated 1994 · University of Alabama School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Birmingham: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $11,486Michael Pottash, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.3/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2012MaleJacob Hascalovici, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 81.3/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2012MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $51Jeremy C. Barlow, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 47.4/100Graduated 1994 · University of Oklahoma College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,173Robert W. Nesbitt, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 43.2/100Graduated 1985 · University of Alabama School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $953Ron B. Pitkanen, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 23.6/100Graduated 2010 · University of Tennessee, HSC, College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $772Mark J. Downey, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 21.3/100Graduated 2002 · University of South Alabama College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $513Sterling F. Anderson, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $226Mary J. Conzelman
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2024FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $182Robert Lansden, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1986 · University of South Alabama College of MedicineMaleOther offices in Birmingham: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $80Victor E. Mendoza, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1999 · University of Texas Medical School at HoustonMaleShayan Shiehzadegan, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2022MaleMarion Sovic, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1987 · Texas Tech University Health Science Center School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $64Kenneth G. Varley
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1977MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $72Joshua Meyer, MD
May accept assignmentMIPS score (2024): 23/100Graduated 2009MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $586
Before you book
This list comes from Medicare's enrollment records, not from reviews. Call the office to confirm the clinician is taking new Medicare patients. With Original Medicare, a clinician who accepts assignment can only charge you the Medicare deductible and coinsurance; one who doesn't may charge up to 15% more than the Medicare-approved amount. If you have a Medicare Advantage plan, check that the clinician is in the plan's network.
The MIPS final score (0–100) comes from Medicare's Merit-based Incentive Payment System for 2024. It combines quality measures, cost, improvement activities and use of certified health records, and it sets a payment adjustment. Clinicians who report as a group share the group's score. It is not a patient rating, and many clinicians have no published score.
Payments from drug and medical device companies come from CMS Open Payments (2025 general payments: meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and similar), summed for each clinician. Receiving payments is legal and common and does not mean a clinician did anything wrong.
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Enrollment, addresses and scores are as reported to CMS and can change. This is not a list of in-network providers for any Medicare Advantage plan, and it is not medical advice. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog — Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File, Clinician MIPS Performance 2024 and Facility Affiliation Data (released Oct 2, 2026).