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Nephrologists who accept Medicare in Montgomery, AL
CMS lists 18 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Montgomery. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 14. Offer telehealth: 1.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 36106 (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.
Sumeet Munjal, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 21.8/100Graduated 2010MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $60,762John K. Amerson, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021MaleOther offices in Montgomery: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $349Elizabeth Chua, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1993FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $792Apoorv Deotare, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $539Ibrahim El Halabi
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $465Hari Naga Garapati, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2003MaleOther offices in Montgomery: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $628Melanie S. Halvorson, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1988 · University of Alabama School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $545Robert B. Hoit, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1979 · Medical College of Georgia School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $74Christine K. Ilunga, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1987FemaleRakesh Kanipakam, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2013MaleOther offices in Montgomery: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $628Rafael Lopez, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1980MaleOther offices in Montgomery: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,386Kim R. McGlothan, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2007 · University of Tennessee, HSC, College of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $704Rodney T. Smith, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1995 · University of South Alabama College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $650Jogy Varghese, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1982MaleOther offices in Montgomery: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $21Ferdinand Q. Alcaide, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 1987MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,450Rajeev Chauhan, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 1993MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,343Vinayak Ramanath, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2003MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $452Tamorie L. Smith, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2004 · University of Alabama School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $884
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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).