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Pulmonologists who accept Medicare in Athens, GA
CMS lists 14 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Athens. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 13. Offer telehealth: 5.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 30607 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $124, of which you pay about $31; a follow-up visit $95, of which you pay about $24 — 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.
Nehal K. Bhatt, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.7/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2001MaleOther offices in Athens: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $3,766Jakemia M. Coleman, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.7/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2002 · Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva UniversityFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $729Narayana Gowda, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.7/100Graduated 2015MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,781Francis H. Jenkins, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.7/100Graduated 1982 · University of Louisville School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $88Thomas J. Martin, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.7/100Graduated 2006 · Medical College of Georgia School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Athens: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $4,585Eduardo Martinez, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.7/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2007MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $516Tenzing Phanthok, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.7/100Graduated 2015FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,106Shraddha Tongia, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.7/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1997FemaleOther offices in Athens: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,481Milos Tucakovic, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.7/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1983MaleOther offices in Athens: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $427Samuel Kennedy, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2020 · Ohio State University College of MedicineMaleAfoma J. King, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2012FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $422Andrew C. McKown, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2011 · Harvard Medical SchoolMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $398William A. West, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2018MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $46Benjamin R. Butler, MD
May accept assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.7/100Graduated 2015 · Medical College of Georgia School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $942
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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).