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Primary care doctors who accept Medicare in Helena, AR
CMS lists 15 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Helena. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 14. Offer telehealth: 2.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 72342 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $119, of which you pay about $30; a follow-up visit $92, 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.
Carol H. Whitehorn, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.2/100Graduated 2020FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $24Khaled Hassan, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.4/100Graduated 2019 · Meharry Medical College School of MedicineMaleAhmad Al-Hindi, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1991MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $319Thomas O. Bailey, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1996 · University of Arkansas College of MedicineMaleHolli Banks-Giles, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2000FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $699Louis Patrick J. Bell II, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1986 · Kansas City University of Med & Biosciences, College of Osteo MedMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $71Michael D. Cassat, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2002 · University of Arkansas College of MedicineMaleScott A. Hall, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1992 · University of Arkansas College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $73Adrienne D. Hatchett, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016 · University of Arkansas College of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $335Yasthil V. Jaganath, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2012MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $241Charles Jones Jr., MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2005 · University of Arkansas College of MedicineMaleAmber Norris, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2017 · University of Arkansas College of MedicineFemaleEdward L. Pillow, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2002 · University of Arkansas College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $20James H. Pillow, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1999 · University of Arkansas College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $20Shakeb Hashmi, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 1992MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $186
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).