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General surgeons who accept Medicare in Gainesville, GA
CMS lists 29 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Gainesville. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 29. Offer telehealth: 8.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 30501 (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.
Nechol Allen, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94.3/100Graduated 2000 · University of New Mexico School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $78Maurice A. Asouzu, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.1/100Graduated 2019 · University of Alabama School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Gainesville: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $2,511Geary D. Bush, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.1/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2007 · Medical College of Georgia School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Gainesville: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $112Chad Copper, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.1/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2000 · Indiana University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Gainesville: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $203,647Daniel A. Mullis, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.1/100Graduated 1999 · Medical College of Georgia School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Gainesville: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,112Derek P. Pendarvis, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.1/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1996 · Medical University of South Carolina College of MedicineMaleOther offices in Gainesville: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $112Mary H. Read, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.1/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2019 · Mercer University School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $113Robert L. Richard, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.1/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1993 · Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva UniversityMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $109Eric J. Velazquez, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.1/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2002MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $996Emily A. Black, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.8/100Graduated 2008 · Medical College of Georgia School of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Gainesville: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $62Pierpont F. Brown III, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.8/100Graduated 1984 · Emory University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Gainesville: 3James G. Chambers, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.8/100Graduated 2007 · University of Alabama School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $65Michael T. Cormican, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.8/100Graduated 2011 · Medical College of Georgia School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $34,061Nathan J. Creel, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.8/100Graduated 2008 · University of Tennessee, HSC, College of MedicineMaleOther offices in Gainesville: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $45Edward N. Foxhall, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.8/100Graduated 1983MaleBrian Gibson, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.8/100Graduated 2011MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $23Casey J. Graybeal, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.8/100Graduated 1984 · Emory University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $173John C. Hastings III, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.8/100Graduated 1984 · Medical College of Georgia School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Gainesville: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,071Bradley Kuhn, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.8/100Graduated 2013 · Wright State University Boonshoft School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Gainesville: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $5,265Ronald C. Lewis, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.8/100Graduated 1986MaleOther offices in Gainesville: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $14,031Nikita Machado, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2012FemaleOther offices in Gainesville: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $15Cuong D. Nguyen
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.8/100Graduated 2002 · Medical College of Georgia School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $160Timothy J. Stevens, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.8/100Graduated 2013 · University of Cincinnati College of MedicineMaleOther offices in Gainesville: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $181William M. Vassy, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.8/100Graduated 2000 · Medical University of South Carolina College of MedicineMaleOther offices in Gainesville: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $38,999Ainsley Freshour, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2006FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $305Terence Jackson, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2012MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $128Kevin Powell, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2000 · University of Cincinnati College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $148Alexis Smith, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2008 · Wake Forest University School of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Gainesville: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $25Marco Yung, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2009MaleOther offices in Gainesville: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,136
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).