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Nephrologists who accept Medicare in Columbus, GA
CMS lists 13 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Columbus. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 7. Offer telehealth: 1.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 31906 (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.
Arachelvi Dhandayuthapani, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 93.7/100Graduated 1990FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $238Manoj K. Patel, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75.7/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1988MaleOther offices in Columbus: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $3Sarfraz M. Molvi, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75/100Graduated 1998MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $379Fahd K. Syed, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75/100Graduated 2006MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $522Saeed U. Zafar, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75/100Graduated 1988MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $488Kamlesh N. Patel, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 73/100Graduated 1987MaleOther offices in Columbus: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $3Fnu Aparna, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2011FemaleOther offices in Columbus: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $611Rajendran Alappan, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 1974MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $13,443Ferdinand Q. Alcaide, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 1987MaleOther offices in Columbus: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,450Rajeev Chauhan, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 1993MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,343Sagar Patel, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2022 · Vanderbilt University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Columbus: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $860Vinayak Ramanath, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2003MaleOther offices in Columbus: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $452Tamorie L. Smith, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2004 · University of Alabama School of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Columbus: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $884
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).