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Neurologists who accept Medicare in Lake Forest, IL
CMS lists 19 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Lake Forest. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 19. Offer telehealth: 16.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 60045 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $137, of which you pay about $34; a follow-up visit $105, of which you pay about $26 — 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.
Richard A. Bernstein
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.2/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1996 · JS Weill Medical College, Cornell UniversityMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $18,000Fan Z. Caprio, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.2/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2009 · University of Pittsburgh School of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Lake Forest: 4Rizamarie E. Empeno, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.2/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2019FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $203Avram Y. Fraint, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.2/100Graduated 2012 · Rush Medical College of Rush UniversityMaleOther offices in Lake Forest: 1Elizabeth E. Gerard, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.2/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2003 · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiFemaleOther offices in Lake Forest: 4Drug and device company payments (2025): $337Zoran M. Grujic, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.2/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1990 · Loyola University of Chicago, Stritch School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $8,935Ian S. Katznelson, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.2/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1998 · Northwestern University Womans Medical SchoolMaleOther offices in Lake Forest: 1Farah Khan, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.2/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2019 · R Franklin University of Med & Sci/chicago Medical SchoolFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $220Paul E. Later, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.2/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1987 · Rush Medical College of Rush UniversityMaleOther offices in Lake Forest: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $21,088Charulatha P. Nagar, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.2/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1989FemaleOther offices in Lake Forest: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $38,050Cody Nathan, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.2/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2017MaleOther offices in Lake Forest: 4Jennifer L. Nichols, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.2/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2013 · University of Illinois College of Med (chi/peor/rock/chm-Urb)FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $215Archie L. Ong, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.2/100Graduated 2006MaleOther offices in Lake Forest: 4Jessica W. Templer, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.2/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2010FemaleOther offices in Lake Forest: 4Kavita P. Thakkar, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.2/100Graduated 2002FemaleStephen A. Vanhaerents, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.2/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2009 · Wayne State University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Lake Forest: 4Drug and device company payments (2025): $148Suemin J. Yoon, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.2/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2018 · R Franklin University of Med & Sci/chicago Medical SchoolFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $106Eli E. Zimmerman, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.2/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2010 · Vanderbilt University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Lake Forest: 4Evan Allen, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1991 · Northwestern University Feinberg Medical SchoolMaleOther offices in Lake Forest: 5Drug and device company payments (2025): $24
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).