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General surgeons who accept Medicare in Lakeland, FL
CMS lists 36 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Lakeland. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 34. Offer telehealth: 5.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 33805 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $88, of which you pay about $22; a follow-up visit $70, 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.
Karlene E. Sinclair, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 100/100Graduated 1983 · Loma Linda University School of MedicineFemaleJennifer Bourne, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88/100Graduated 2018 · Creighton University School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,979Daryl V. Nisbett, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.3/100Graduated 2012MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,895Elisabeth L. Dupont, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.2/100Graduated 1993 · University of South Florida College of MedicineFemaleZachary Boucher, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2015MaleOther offices in Lakeland: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $2,017Diana A. Burgueno-Vega, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 2006 · University of New Mexico School of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Lakeland: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $101Donald M. Davis, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 2006 · University of South Florida College of MedicineMaleOther offices in Lakeland: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,934Matthew J. Forestiere, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 2012MaleOther offices in Lakeland: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,585Andrew C. Gaugler, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 2009MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,895John F. Hower, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 1974 · Tulane University School of MedicineMaleRobert McCormick, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 2012MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $169Vanessa Prowler, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 2010FemaleSowsan H. Rasheid, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 2002 · University of South Florida College of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Lakeland: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $937Robert L. Ringersen, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 2017MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $14Stephen A. Rowe, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 1996 · Albany Medical College of Union UniversityMaleDebra L. Seoane, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 1986 · University of Miami, LM Miller School of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Lakeland: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $4,220Janet S. Skarda, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 1993 · Ohio State University College of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Lakeland: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $5,771Olumide O. Sobowale, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 1987 · Howard University College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $4,101Richard D. Sontchi, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 2004 · University of South Florida College of MedicineMaleOther offices in Lakeland: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $14Bree A. Steinke, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 2017 · Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic MedFemaleOther offices in Lakeland: 1Michael R. Taylor, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 2015MaleOther offices in Lakeland: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $29Ward Wall, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 1992 · Wayne State University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Lakeland: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $92Raquel Weston
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 2013FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $14Thanh Hang K. Nguyen, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.4/100Graduated 1999FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,903Andrew M. Georgeson, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75/100Graduated 1985MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $169Jeffrey E. Friedman, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 47.5/100Graduated 1999 · University of Mississippi School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $13,166Martha D. Castillo, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $78Joseph E. Chebli, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1995 · State University of New York at Stony Brook, School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $74Elizabeth A. Dovec, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2007 · JC Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall UniversityFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $61,436Sanjiv F. Gray, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2008MaleOther offices in Lakeland: 4Drug and device company payments (2025): $4,972Justin Hutchinson, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021 · University of South Carolina School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $128Diana M. Lane, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2017FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $419Matthew D. Nier
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2019MaleOther offices in Lakeland: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $611Josephine M. Shinn, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $576Daniel C. Gonzalez, DO
May accept assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2022 · Edward Via Col of Osteo Medicine-Carolinas CampusMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $15Ameer M. Aboud, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2017MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $169
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).