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Neurologists who accept Medicare in Bakersfield, CA
CMS lists 24 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Bakersfield. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 20. Offer telehealth: 9.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 93301 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $135, of which you pay about $34; a follow-up visit $104, of which you pay about $26 — 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.
Maheep S. Birdi, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 93.2/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1996MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $22,674Luis C. Natali, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 93.2/100Graduated 2001MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $698Hari Prasad Kunhi Veedu, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1991MaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $3,361Katayoun Sabetian, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88/100Graduated 1991 · Virginia Commonwealth University, School of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 1Kaveh Saremi, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.9/100Graduated 1997MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $3,840Jian C. Lin, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75/100Graduated 1983MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,816Venkatesh Janakiraman, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 37.2/100Graduated 2009MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,396Omar Choudhury, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2020MaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $28Venkata S. Dandamudi, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2001MaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $133Emad S. Farag, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1997 · Loma Linda University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $20Sameh S. Labib, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1987MaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $2,404Collins Liu, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2008 · New York Medical CollegeMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $153Sulagshan Mahendrarajah, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2011MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,049Neil J. Patel, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2013MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $131Theodore O. Popa, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2010 · Toledo Medical CollegeMaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 4Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,420Subapriya R, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016FemaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $848Laura Ragna, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2013FemaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,750Vinutha N. Ravi, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1991FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,814Nicholas E. Tarlov, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2005 · University of Southern California Keck School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 1Kiron Thomas, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2000MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $280Richard Alexan-Shirabad, MD
May accept assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.3/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1998MaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $6,963Jeri Y. Williams, MD
May accept assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2006FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $3,648Shubham Biyani, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2019MaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 1Ivanna Joseph, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2017FemaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 1
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).