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Rheumatologists who accept Medicare in Tampa, FL
CMS lists 21 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Tampa. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 21. Offer telehealth: 14.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 33607 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $130, of which you pay about $33; a follow-up visit $99, of which you pay about $25 — 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.
Rita Raturi, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 92.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2014FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $3,571Vipul M. Joshi, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 90.5/100Graduated 1991MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $4,573Leen Al Saleh, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.2/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2015FemaleOther offices in Tampa: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $188Carolyn S. Connelly, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1984 · University of Florida College of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Tampa: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $99Kimberly M. Smith, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75/100Graduated 2000 · University of South Florida College of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $231Anastasiya Bagrova, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2018 · University of Florida College of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Tampa: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $806Michael C. Burnette, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1981MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,225John D. Carter, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1996 · Saint Louis University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $25,118Alicia M. Fierro, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2010 · At Still University, Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral HlthFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $3,333Julio A. Gonzalez-Paoli, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2007MaleOther offices in Tampa: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $297,359Edgard Janer
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1991 · University of Puerto Rico School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $870Yih Chang C. Lin, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2004MaleOther offices in Tampa: 5Drug and device company payments (2025): $82,945Jeffrey Miller, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1970 · Temple University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,721Natasa Pejcic, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2007FemaleOther offices in Tampa: 2David Rivera, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2011 · University Central del Caribe Escuela de MedicinaMaleOther offices in Tampa: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $15,665Ernesto Rodriguez, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2006MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $131,705William J. Shim, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1993MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $16Joel C. Silverfield, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1976 · Emory University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $208Loutfi Succari, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2010MaleOther offices in Tampa: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $134Kavita A. Thomas, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2000 · University of Miami, LM Miller School of MedicineFemaleAtefeh Vafa, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2012FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,154
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).