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Nephrologists who accept Medicare in Rockford, IL
CMS lists 17 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Rockford. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 17. Offer telehealth: 9.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 61107 (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.
Krishna Sankaran, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 97.1/100Graduated 1987MaleBindu Pavithran, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 96.5/100Graduated 1989FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $22Charlene D. Murdakes, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.4/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2008 · Rush Medical College of Rush UniversityFemaleMashood Ahmad, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95/100Graduated 1989MaleSyed M. Ahmed, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2003MaleJohn C. Maynard, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95/100Graduated 1978 · University of Illinois College of Med (chi/peor/rock/chm-Urb)MaleJoanna M. Niemiec, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95/100Graduated 1997FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $18Michael Robertson, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2000 · University of Illinois College of Med (chi/peor/rock/chm-Urb)MaleCharles I. Sweeney, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1984MaleSajid Q. Ansari, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 93.3/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2008MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $16Zahraa F. Hajjiri, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 93.3/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2007FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $149Fahad Aziz, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 83.3/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2005MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $8,618Adam P. Bregman, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2013 · University of Miami, LM Miller School of MedicineMaleArooj Fatima, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021 · University of California, Irvine, California College of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $18Krishna R. Manda, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2002MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $110Muhammad Daniel Siddiqui, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2016MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $497James A. Stim, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1987 · University of Illinois College of Med (chi/peor/rock/chm-Urb)Male
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).