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General surgeons who accept Medicare in Columbus, GA
CMS lists 25 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Columbus. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 24. Offer telehealth: 2.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 31901 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $83, of which you pay about $21; a follow-up visit $67, of which you pay about $17 — 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.
Robert A. Edwards, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94.5/100Graduated 1994 · Nova Southeastern College of Osteo MedicineMaleOther offices in Columbus: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $21,507Ashley H. Stewart, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 93.9/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2001 · University of Alabama School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,871Blake Barnes, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 91.6/100Graduated 2017 · Medical College of Georgia School of MedicineFemaleJeremy Bryner, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 91.6/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2018 · West Virginia School of Osteopathic MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $679Kenneth H. Copperwheat, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 91.6/100Graduated 2016 · Lincoln Memorial University Medical DepartmentMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $4,742Robert A. Jenks, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 91.6/100Graduated 1986 · University of South Carolina School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Columbus: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $132Meagan E. Mahoney, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 91.6/100Graduated 2012 · University of Mississippi School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $10,771Edmund M. Molnar Jr., MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 91.6/100Graduated 1991 · Mercer University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $132Seaborn A. Roddenbery V, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.4/100Graduated 2004 · Medical College of Georgia School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $20William E. Taylor, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 85.3/100Graduated 1996 · University of Michigan Medical SchoolMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $18John B. Adams, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75/100Graduated 2003 · Medical College of Georgia School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Columbus: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $122James D. Majors, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75/100Graduated 1989 · Emory University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Columbus: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,394Shaun A. Price
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75/100Graduated 1994 · Ohio Medical UniversityMaleOther offices in Columbus: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $72Michael J. Borkat, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1994 · Medical College of Georgia School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $134Carmen E. Lee, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2017 · Mercer University School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $100William D. Mitchell, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2020 · Mercer University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,500George W. Mize, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016 · Mercer University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $60Linh Oconnor, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1994FemaleOther offices in Columbus: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $46Rutvi Patel, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2019FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $47Lois Sakorafas
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1995FemaleEdward J. Snyder III, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1981MaleKanenechukwu Ubesie, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2007FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,789Anit S. Vettukattil, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2005 · Medical College of Georgia School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $64Mellissa Ward
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2015 · Dalhousie University, Faculty of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,896Jose Llaque Salazar, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2017MaleOther offices in Columbus: 1
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).