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Psychiatrists who accept Medicare in Lakeland, FL
CMS lists 28 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Lakeland. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 28. Offer telehealth: 14.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 33805 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $172, of which you pay about $43; 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.
Joachim A. Benitez, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.2/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2001MaleYahia Homsi, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.2/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2009MaleShirley Alleyne, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1999FemaleOther offices in Lakeland: 1Simon Chamakalayil, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 2015MaleOther offices in Lakeland: 1Joseph C. Desrosier, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 2012MaleAnkur K. Goyal, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2014MaleOther offices in Lakeland: 2Bishoy Kolta, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 2009MaleOther offices in Lakeland: 2Carlina E. Mejia, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 2001FemaleOther offices in Lakeland: 2Connie E. Poetter, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 2007 · University of South Florida College of MedicineFemaleMadhurya Polavarapu, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 2014FemaleJoseph Pullara, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 2015MaleOther offices in Lakeland: 1Reham A. Sadek, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 1999FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $204Edmund C. Settle Jr., MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100Graduated 1975 · West Virginia University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Lakeland: 2William N. Upshaw, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2004 · Tulane University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $9,145Charles A. Barrios, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1995MaleOther offices in Lakeland: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,438Laverne D'Silva, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2020 · Nova Southeastern College of Osteo MedicineFemaleChristopher V. Davenport, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1987 · University of Tennessee, HSC, College of MedicineMaleBritney A. Galantino, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016FemaleOther offices in Lakeland: 1William D. Holmes, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1987MaleJohn Hopkins, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2020 · William Carey University College of Osteopathic MedicineMaleOther offices in Lakeland: 1Steven L. Kaplan, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1983 · University of Miami, LM Miller School of MedicineMaleBenjamin E. Lippmann, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2015MaleNicole N. Shirvani, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2013FemaleOther offices in Lakeland: 1Alfred Tager, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2014MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $246Alvaro Teixeira, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2017MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $19Anne G. Tyson, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1981 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of MedicineFemaleMark S. Weisman Jr., MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2010 · JC Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall UniversityMaleOther offices in Lakeland: 3Kevin E. Whitlock, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2014 · Philadelphia College of Osteopathic MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $106
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).