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Primary care doctors who accept Medicare in Lincoln, IL
CMS lists 22 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Lincoln. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 22. Offer telehealth: 2.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 62656 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $127, of which you pay about $32; a follow-up visit $97, 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.
Lindsey A. Atwood
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.8/100Graduated 2017 · Southern Illinois University School of MedicineFemaleRebecca A. Brenneisen
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.8/100Graduated 2021 · Southern Illinois University School of MedicineFemaleDennis M. Carroll, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.8/100Graduated 1983 · University of Illinois College of Med (chi/peor/rock/chm-Urb)MaleOther offices in Lincoln: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $30Stephen Y. Chen, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.8/100Graduated 2004 · Kansas City College of Medicine and SurgeryMaleOther offices in Lincoln: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,465Melissa L. Cox, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.8/100Graduated 1997 · University of Illinois College of Med (chi/peor/rock/chm-Urb)MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $38Saurabh Jha, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.8/100Graduated 2003MaleOther offices in Lincoln: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $627Cathy L. McAfee, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1995 · Northwestern University Feinberg Medical SchoolFemaleSandipkumar M. Patel, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.8/100Graduated 2008MaleShuchi Shah
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.8/100Graduated 2012FemaleOther offices in Lincoln: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $112Didar Singh, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.8/100Graduated 2000 · University College of MedicineFemaleJanelle R. Smith, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.8/100Graduated 2013FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $76Joseph Standard
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.8/100Graduated 2017 · Southern Illinois University School of MedicineMaleRichard E. Bivin, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 79.4/100Graduated 1998MaleOther offices in Lincoln: 1James D. Farrell, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 79.4/100Graduated 2020MaleOther offices in Lincoln: 1Kevin S. Londe, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 79.4/100Graduated 2019MaleOther offices in Lincoln: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $16Tracy A. Mizeur, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 79.4/100Graduated 2002 · Southern Illinois University School of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Lincoln: 1Christopher E. Rivera, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 79.4/100Graduated 2008 · Southern Illinois Univ School of Dental MedicineMaleOther offices in Lincoln: 1Amir J. Wahab, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 79.4/100Graduated 1992MaleOther offices in Lincoln: 1Nakeya K. Dewaswala, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 73.9/100Graduated 2016FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $295Krishna Akella
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016 · Des Moines University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health SciencesMaleOther offices in Lincoln: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $2,750Carmen D. Chase, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1998 · University of Kansas School of Med (kc/wich/sal)FemaleOther offices in Lincoln: 1Amit Sapra, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1996MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $107
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).