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Optometrists who accept Medicare in Santa Maria, CA
CMS lists 12 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Santa Maria. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 11. Offer telehealth: 0.
Original Medicare doesn't cover routine eye exams for glasses or contact lenses; it covers eye care for medical conditions such as cataracts, glaucoma and diabetic eye disease.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 93454 (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.
David E. Bowin, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 96.5/100Graduated 2020MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $580Timothy E. Nelson
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 96.5/100Graduated 1990 · Pacific University - College of OptometryMaleTiffany Smart, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 96.5/100Graduated 2004FemaleOther offices in Santa Maria: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $21Syed Ali, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.6/100Graduated 2002 · Pacific University - College of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $379Urvi R. Patel, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 0/100Graduated 2002FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $388David P. Alford, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1999 · University of California - School of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $22Bradley P. Kovach, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021 · Southern California College of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $867Christopher K. Ng, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2013MaleSuzanne K. Romeo, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2015 · Southern California College of OptometryFemaleMahnoor Shahzad, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2023FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $98Yanlei Wu
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2024 · State University of New York - State College OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $480John R. Prewett, OD
May accept assignmentMIPS score (2024): 63.3/100Graduated 1981MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $244
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).