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Pulmonologists who accept Medicare in Fort Lauderdale, FL
CMS lists 18 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Fort Lauderdale. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 18. Offer telehealth: 8.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 33316 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $136, of which you pay about $34; a follow-up visit $103, 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.
Waddah Allaf, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 99.5/100Graduated 1988MaleOther offices in Fort Lauderdale: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,018Elio Donna, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.9/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1979MaleOther offices in Fort Lauderdale: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $2,643Erick A. Palma, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.9/100Graduated 1992MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $147Shirin Shafazand, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.9/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1995FemaleOther offices in Fort Lauderdale: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $32,715George P. Azar Jr., MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75/100Graduated 1984MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $414Nicholas A. Barreras, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2017MaleAryeh Bernstein, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021MaleOther offices in Fort Lauderdale: 12Jerry Capote Jr., MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2007MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $50Felix Hernandez, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2009MaleSandeep Jain, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1988MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,628Semaan G. Kosseifi, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2002MaleOther offices in Fort Lauderdale: 12Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,438Sunil D. Kumar, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1989MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $839Melaine M. Lanza, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2016FemaleOther offices in Fort Lauderdale: 12Drug and device company payments (2025): $978Kantha Medepalli, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2009 · Kent State University College of Podiatric MedicineFemaleOther offices in Fort Lauderdale: 4David F. Romero Fischmann, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1991MaleOther offices in Fort Lauderdale: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $539Randall S. Schwartz, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2011MaleOther offices in Fort Lauderdale: 12Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,248Ronald J. Scott, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1973 · Boston University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,030Glenn R. Singer, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1978 · University of South Florida College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $3,579
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).