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General surgeons who accept Medicare in Bowling Green, KY
CMS lists 15 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Bowling Green. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 15. Offer telehealth: 2.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 42101 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $82, of which you pay about $21; a follow-up visit $66, 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.
Rachel M. Bryant, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 91.9/100Graduated 2017FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,518Mark D. Jessen, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.8/100Graduated 1988 · Albany Medical College of Union UniversityMaleWilliam H. Polk, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 85.7/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1985 · Vanderbilt University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,630Mark Sanders, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 83.6/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2000MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $18Amber R. Chambers, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2005 · University of Louisville School of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Bowling Green: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $571Tracy G. Cross, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1996 · University of Louisville School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Bowling Green: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $361Brian D. Crosser, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2019MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $463Daniel L. Davis, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1998MaleOther offices in Bowling Green: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $4,481Tage F. Haase, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1994 · University of Cincinnati College of MedicineMaleOther offices in Bowling Green: 4Drug and device company payments (2025): $178Rachel Lovely-West, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2019FemaleOther offices in Bowling Green: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $3,682Onyeoziri R. Nwanguma, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2001 · Temple University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Bowling Green: 2Sarath Palakodeti, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2008 · Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, ErieMaleOther offices in Bowling Green: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $913Darin L. Passer, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2004 · University of South Carolina School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Bowling Green: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $4,765Michael R. West Jr., MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2009 · University of Louisville School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $216Timothy Wierson, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1987 · University of Iowa, RJ & L Carver College of MedicineMaleOther offices in Bowling Green: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $14,551
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).