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Orthopedic surgeons who accept Medicare in Bakersfield, CA
CMS lists 37 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Bakersfield. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 37. Offer telehealth: 8.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 93301 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $91, of which you pay about $23; a follow-up visit $74, of which you pay about $18 — 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.
Alfred J. Coppola Jr., MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 99.6/100Graduated 1978 · University of Southern California Keck School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $72Thomas D. Ferro, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 98.5/100Graduated 1984 · University of California, San Diego School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $5,899Firooz B. Amjadi, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.8/100Graduated 1994 · University of California, Geffen School of MedicineMaleJose R. Bosque, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.8/100Graduated 2008 · Loma Linda University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $135Timothy V. Galan, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.8/100Graduated 2012 · University of Minnesota Medical SchoolMaleNickul S. Jain, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2012 · University of California, Irvine, California College of MedicineMaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $44,289Pavel Moldavskiy, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.8/100Graduated 2012 · University of Southern California Keck School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $132Anuj Varshney, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.8/100Graduated 2005 · Northwestern University Feinberg Medical SchoolMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $709Michael J. Eagan, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88/100Graduated 2005MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $77Arturo Gomez, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88/100Graduated 1999 · University of California, San Francisco School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 1Lan B. Hua, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88/100Graduated 2004 · University of Rochester School of Medicine and DentistryFemaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 1Winnie A. Palispis, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88/100Graduated 2013 · Medical College of WisconsinFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $77Najib R. Ussef, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88/100Graduated 2016 · University of California, Geffen School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,032Karl Balch, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 81.4/100Graduated 2010 · University of Chicago, Pritzker School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $404Harpreet S. Bawa, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 81.4/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2012 · Clvlnd Clinic Lerner College of Med of Case Wstn RSV UniversityMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $60,407Deborah A. Castaneda, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 81.4/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2007 · University of Southern California Keck School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $495Christopher D. Hamilton, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 81.4/100Graduated 1988 · University of California, Geffen School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,728Dimitriy G. Kondrashov, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 81.4/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2000 · Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva UniversityMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $3,509Jarrad A. Merriman, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 81.4/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2014 · University of Southern California Keck School of MedicineMaleOluwadamilola O. Oluyede, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 81.4/100Graduated 2015 · State University of NY Upstate Medical UniversityMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $7,556Fadi Saied, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 81.4/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2008MaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $519Mark Schamblin, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 81.4/100Graduated 1998 · Saint Louis University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $57Todd A. Shapiro, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 81.4/100Graduated 1999 · R Franklin University of Med & Sci/chicago Medical SchoolMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $57George M. Wahba, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 81.4/100Graduated 2005 · University of California, San Francisco School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $41Alan P. Moelleken, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 74.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1987 · Perelman School of Med at the University of PennsylvaniaMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $617Mohammad T. Hashemi, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 16.1/100Graduated 1998MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $219Raymond J. Chan, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2008MaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 1Vincent M. Colin, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2010MaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $14Phuc N. Dang, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2010 · Creighton University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $99James Grimes, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1979MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $98Anthony D. Levins, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1993 · University of California, Irvine, California College of MedicineMaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 1Rahul G. Samtani, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2015MaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $6,107Richard D. Scheinberg, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1975 · Duke University School of MedicineMaleLorra M. Sharp, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2005 · University of Southern California Keck School of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $36Torre Soderlund, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2019 · University of Southern California Keck School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Bakersfield: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,177Pramod K. Srivastava, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1978MaleMichael P. Suszter, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2007 · Ohio University, College of Osteopathic MedicineMaleOther 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).