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Nurse practitioners who accept Medicare in Merriam, KS
CMS lists 84 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Merriam. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 79. Offer telehealth: 11.
Nurse practitioners can diagnose, treat and prescribe, and many work as primary care clinicians for Medicare patients.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 66204 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $82, of which you pay about $20; a follow-up visit $94, 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.
Kara Field, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 92.9/100Graduated 2016FemaleOther offices in Merriam: 1Melanie A. Knight
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 92.9/100Graduated 2009FemaleOther offices in Merriam: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $404Stephen R. Payne
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 92.9/100Graduated 2018MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $92Erin U. Feitz, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2007 · University of Kansas School of Med (kc/wich/sal)FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $25,710Megan Schumacher
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 83.2/100Graduated 2020 · University of Kansas School of Med (kc/wich/sal)FemaleJosel Balino
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.6/100Graduated 2019MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $60Kayla R. Kjelshus
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.6/100Graduated 2015FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $6,917Lauren E. Meyer, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 80.3/100Graduated 2020FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $669Olivia Hopkins
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 80.2/100Graduated 2017FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $921Krystal M. Katzer
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 57.3/100Graduated 2019 · University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of MedicineFemaleRebecca S. Andrews, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $135Katherine Arner
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2022FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $18Madison N. Bartlett
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2025FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $206Anna S. Bhatnagar
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2019FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $440Richard Bottoms, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2023MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,366Tamela R. Brown, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1999FemaleOther offices in Merriam: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $628Carson R. Burns, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2015FemaleOther offices in Merriam: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,472Alexa N. Byrd
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $657Janae M. Carlson
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2002FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $353Danielle L. Carmitchel
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2021FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $503Kenzie L. Chew
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2018FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $363Tam Chieu
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2019FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,422Obidi Chigbo
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2025MaleJacqueline S. Cochran
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2023FemaleTracy A. Coltharp
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2014FemaleJordyn Cooper
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2019FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $687Jill K. Cross
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2009FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $26Lisa D. Crough, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2004FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $252Jordan A. Cunningham
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2022FemaleOther offices in Merriam: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $424Marie De Hoop
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $17Selena M. De Leon
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2020FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $178Alison N. Delich
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2015FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $906Emily A. Dietz, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2013 · University of Kansas School of Med (kc/wich/sal)FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $448William S. Dolan
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2020MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $464Victor M. Downing Jr.
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $28Michael V. Dye
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2018FemaleOther offices in Merriam: 1Summer B. Flandermeyer, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2020FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $6,738Janet M. Gianino, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1988FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $837Ann M. Gottfried
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2012FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $262Halie Hall, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2022FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,715Jordan J. Handley
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2024FemaleMaeve Hodes
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2014FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $205Lesley A. Hofer
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2017FemaleOther offices in Merriam: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $389Stephanie R. Hulse
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2020FemaleOther offices in Merriam: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $259Kathleen R. Johnson
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2013 · University of Illinois College of Med (chi/peor/rock/chm-Urb)FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $47Tanairi Kennedy, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2023 · University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $788Kaitlin Klein
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2024FemaleMarcy C. Kot
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2008FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $448Stephanie R. Lininger, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2000FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $3,234Lisa G. Lowe, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1998FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $184Ashley Lutjemeier
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $446Jacklyne S. Manuel
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2024FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $293Abigail N. Martin
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2025FemaleOther offices in Merriam: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $21Melissa A. Matzek
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2020FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $854Evanne G. McArthur
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2024FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $142Ian McCombs
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2024MaleOther offices in Merriam: 1Michael C. McNellis
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2022FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $350Allison Minyakov
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2024FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $125Marcia L. Norwich
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2010FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,124William I. Numair
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2023MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,200Allison L. Oconnor
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2023FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,153Laura A. Porter, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2023FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $3,657Danijela Prodanovic, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2018FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $326Estelle R. Schmidt, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2011FemaleOther offices in Merriam: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $890Kellie Seefeldt
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2023FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $40Teresa Self
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2022 · University of Kansas School of Med (kc/wich/sal)FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $168Kate Sugden, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2023FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,338Danielle M. Sutton
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2019FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $26Jacqueline N. Switzer
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2010FemaleOther offices in Merriam: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $301Monica A. Thielen
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2013FemaleOther offices in Merriam: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,034Neathery B. Thomas, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2006FemaleOther offices in Merriam: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $245Laura T. Thompson
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2023FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,289Roya K. Waggoner, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016FemaleOther offices in Merriam: 1Patricia L. Walsh
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1993FemaleOther offices in Merriam: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $15Carrie L. Werst, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1998FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $339Melissa S. Woods, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2014FemaleOther offices in Merriam: 1Brecklyn B. Yocum
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2023 · University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $40Sarah C. Young
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2020 · University of Kansas School of Med (kc/wich/sal)FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $543Melanie L. Yunger, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2005 · University of Kansas School of Med (kc/wich/sal)FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $431Jamie D. Parks
May accept assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.6/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2020FemaleOther offices in Merriam: 1Sarah Chionuma
May accept assignmentGraduated 2025FemaleStacy L. Corum
May accept assignmentGraduated 2014 · University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $901Jill E. Davidson
May accept assignmentGraduated 2024FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $150Ashley A. Evans
May accept assignmentGraduated 2025 · University of Kansas School of Med (kc/wich/sal)FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $74
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.
Other specialists in Merriam
- Primary care doctors68
- Cardiologists18
- Dermatologists3
- Orthopedic surgeons3
- Neurologists12
- Gastroenterologists7
- Urologists3
- Pulmonologists8
- Endocrinologists3
- ENT doctors3
- Oncologists6
- Psychiatrists5
- Therapists and counselors5
- Audiologists3
- Chiropractors6
- Gynecologists15
- General surgeons8
- Vascular surgeons4
- Neurosurgeons6
Other care in Merriam
Hospitals · Nursing homes · Dialysis centers
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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).