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Optometrists who accept Medicare in Gainesville, GA
CMS lists 18 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Gainesville. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 13. Offer telehealth: 0.
Original Medicare doesn't cover routine eye exams for glasses or contact lenses; it covers eye care for medical conditions such as cataracts, glaucoma and diabetic eye disease.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 30501 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $124, of which you pay about $31; 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.
Ealeen H. Kim, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84/100Graduated 2016 · University of California - School of OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $367Leroy W. Robinson III, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84/100Graduated 2011 · Southern College of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $324Stephen Ellison, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75/100Graduated 2016 · Southern College of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $984Keyle Brown, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2015 · International American University at Puerto Rico - School of OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $38,206Sara Cha, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2024 · University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteo MedicineFemaleOther offices in Gainesville: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,839Elizabeth Ellison, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2015 · Southern College of OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $844Jason K. Gabrels, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2000MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $243William L. Morrison, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1975 · Southern College of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $112Mark M. Novotny, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2001MaleOther offices in Gainesville: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $347Xiaowen Pan
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2022 · Southern College of OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $637Edward H. Shannon Jr., OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1977 · Southern College of OptometryMaleOther offices in Gainesville: 1Steffie Shine
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2025 · Southern College of OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,631Jia Zhou
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2022FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $330Charles Nunez, OD
May accept assignmentMIPS score (2024): 100/100Graduated 2011MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $115Kimberly A. Linert, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 1991 · Illinois College of Optometry at ChicagoFemaleDuy H. Nguyen, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2020 · Southern College of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $375Julius N. Skeete, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 1989 · State University of New York - State College OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $206John Womack, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2002 · Southern College of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $133,842
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).