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Orthopedic surgeons who accept Medicare in Bowling Green, KY
CMS lists 14 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Bowling Green. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 14. Offer telehealth: 0.
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.
Lindsay H. Hockensmith, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.7/100Graduated 2018 · University of Kentucky College of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,272Sameer Badarudeen, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2001MaleOther offices in Bowling Green: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $739Baylor Blickenstaff, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2019 · University of Tennessee, HSC, College of MedicineMaleOther offices in Bowling Green: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $5,011Rasesh R. Desai, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2001MaleOther offices in Bowling Green: 5Drug and device company payments (2025): $44Kirk A. Fee, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1992 · University of Tennessee, HSC, College of MedicineMaleOther offices in Bowling Green: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,915James R. Heltsley Jr., DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2010 · University of Pikeville, Kentucky College of Osteopathic MedMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $444Chaitanya S. Malempati, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2010 · University of Pikeville, Kentucky College of Osteopathic MedMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $52,383Gregg A. Malmquist, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1988 · University of Texas Medical School at San AntonioMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $361Keith D. Morrison, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1989 · University of Kentucky College of MedicineMaleOther offices in Bowling Green: 3Christopher M. Patton, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1995 · Vanderbilt University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Bowling Green: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,314Robert S. Riley, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2010 · Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, ErieMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,138Spencer E. Romine, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2006 · University of Alabama School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Bowling Green: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $2,184John Whitaker, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2017 · University of Kentucky College of MedicineMaleOther offices in Bowling Green: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,565Chad B. Willis, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016 · University of Kentucky College of MedicineMaleOther offices in Bowling Green: 4Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,082
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).