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Ophthalmologists who accept Medicare in Santee, CA
CMS lists 6 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Santee. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 6. Offer telehealth: 3.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 92071 (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.
Alexander I. Zabaneh, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 100/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2013 · University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,102Veena V. Arun, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.7/100Graduated 1995 · University of Chicago, Pritzker School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $233Dawn Marie K. De Castro-Marceau, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.7/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2007 · University of California, San Francisco School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $300Jennifer Lee, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.7/100Graduated 2015 · Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva UniversityFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $209Seema V. Sundaram, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.7/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1995FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $60Neil T. Choplin, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 80.1/100Graduated 1976 · New York Medical CollegeMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $61
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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- Primary care doctors42
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- Dermatologists4
- Optometrists5
- Psychiatrists6
- Therapists and counselors9
- Physical therapists48
- Occupational therapists15
- Chiropractors7
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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).