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Neurosurgeons who accept Medicare in San Diego, CA
CMS lists 42 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in San Diego. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 41. Offer telehealth: 21.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 92103 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $140, of which you pay about $35; a follow-up visit $77, of which you pay about $19 — 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.
Thomas L. Beaumont, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 90.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2010 · Wayne State University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $169Sharona Ben-Haim, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 90.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2008FemaleOther offices in San Diego: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $4,122Joseph D. Ciacci, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 90.8/100Graduated 1989MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $32,043Dustin Hatefi, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 90.8/100Graduated 2011 · Georgetown University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in San Diego: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $44,293Arash A. Khalessi-Hosseini, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 90.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2004 · Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $348,113Arjun R. Khanna, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 90.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2016 · Harvard Medical SchoolMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,197Nikhil Murthy
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 90.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2015 · Georgetown University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $23,252Andrew Nguyen
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 90.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2003 · University of California, San Diego School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,099Joseph A. Osorio, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 90.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2012 · University of California, San Francisco School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $242,906Jeffrey S. Pannell, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 90.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2007 · Medical College of Georgia School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $3,840Martin H. Pham, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 90.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2010 · Northwestern University Feinberg Medical SchoolMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $120,794David R. Santiago-Dieppa, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 90.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2013 · Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $39,472Marc S. Schwartz, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 90.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1991 · Harvard Medical SchoolMaleWilliam R. Taylor, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 90.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1987 · University of California, Geffen School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $549,812Howard Tung, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 90.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1985 · Geisel School of Medicine at DartmouthMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $266Usman A. Khan, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 90.4/100Graduated 2016MaleOther offices in San Diego: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $308Gowriharan Thaiyananthan, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 81.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2001MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $826Scott P. Leary, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2000 · Washington University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $97,094Vikram M. Udani, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2006 · Stanford University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in San Diego: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $178,726Mario Ammirati, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1989MaleVamsidhar Chavakula, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2012 · Harvard Medical SchoolMaleOther offices in San Diego: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $25,505Peter A. Christiansen, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2012 · Southern Illinois University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in San Diego: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $190Bruno C. Claudino Ramos Flores, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2006MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $138Timothy J. Florence, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2019 · Columbia University College of Physicians and SurgeonsMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $347Ryan M. Glynn, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2018MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $991David D. Gonda, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2007 · Ohio State University College of MedicineMaleOther offices in San Diego: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $2,698Tyrone L. Hardy, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1971 · Howard University College of MedicineMaleBrian R. Hirshman, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2015 · University of California, San Diego School of MedicineMaleOther offices in San Diego: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,376Sohaib A. Kureshi, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1994 · University of California, Geffen School of MedicineMaleOther offices in San Diego: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $907Jeffrey A. Lee, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1994 · Harvard Medical SchoolMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $147Michael L. Levy, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1986 · University of California, San Francisco School of MedicineMaleOther offices in San Diego: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $290Victor P. Lo, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2009MaleOther offices in San Diego: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $99Sabareesh Natarajan, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2000MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $31,728Richard C. Ostrup, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1979 · University of California, Davis School of MedicineMaleOther offices in San Diego: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $24Ryan Screven, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2019 · University of South Alabama College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,176Christopher M. Uchiyama, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1993MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $3,281Arvin R. Wali, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2018 · University of California, San Diego School of MedicineMaleOther offices in San Diego: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $142Joshua L. Wang, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2019 · Ohio State University College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $145Daniel White, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1998 · University of California, San Diego School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,238Marcus Zachariah, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2012 · University of California, San Francisco School of MedicineMaleOther offices in San Diego: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $32,750Alois Zauner, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1988MaleOther offices in San Diego: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $137,791Vrijesh S. Tantuwaya, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 1996 · Washington University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in San Diego: 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).