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Nurse practitioners who accept Medicare in Hazard, KY
CMS lists 107 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Hazard. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 104. Offer telehealth: 18.
Nurse practitioners can diagnose, treat and prescribe, and many work as primary care clinicians for Medicare patients.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 41701 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $82, of which you pay about $21; a follow-up visit $94, of which you pay about $23 — 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.
Rebecca A. Francis
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 90/100Graduated 2018FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $224Donna M. Creech
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 85.8/100Graduated 2000FemaleJeffrey D. Fugate
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 85.8/100Graduated 2011MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $16Valerie D. Adams
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.1/100Graduated 2014FemaleOther offices in Hazard: 4Drug and device company payments (2025): $125Lori S. Akers, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.1/100Graduated 2011FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,656Tabitha L. Collins, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.1/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2016FemaleOther offices in Hazard: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $268Allie B. Davidson
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.1/100Graduated 2018FemaleOther offices in Hazard: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $51Christa G. Duff
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.1/100Graduated 2018FemaleOther offices in Hazard: 4Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,193Jessica Ivey
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.1/100Graduated 2022FemaleOther offices in Hazard: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,200Kynea Johnson
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.1/100Graduated 2022FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $238Janessa B. Johnson-Melton, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.1/100Graduated 2003FemaleOther offices in Hazard: 2Jacqueline Messer
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.1/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2016FemaleOther offices in Hazard: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $147Betty D. Miller
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.1/100Graduated 2017FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $61Suzette Miller
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.1/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2009FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $42Kathryn A. Morgan
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.1/100Graduated 2016FemaleOther offices in Hazard: 5Drug and device company payments (2025): $381Trena Preston, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.1/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2006FemaleOther offices in Hazard: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $216Sydney Roark
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.1/100Graduated 2022FemaleOther offices in Hazard: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,013Cindy J. Rowe
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.1/100Graduated 2022FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $144Kevin Scalf
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.1/100Graduated 2011MaleAdriane Spruell, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.1/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2014FemaleOther offices in Hazard: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $15Johnnie Watts
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.1/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2016FemaleOther offices in Hazard: 6Drug and device company payments (2025): $972Kaitlin K. Watts
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.1/100Graduated 2018FemaleOther offices in Hazard: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $290Brooklyn Wilson
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.1/100Graduated 2023FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $377Bianca J. Absher
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2018 · Lincoln Memorial University Medical DepartmentFemaleOther offices in Hazard: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $30Jacqueline D. Allen
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2014FemaleOther offices in Hazard: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $628Robetta M. Baker
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2011FemaleLauren Bates
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2009FemaleOther offices in Hazard: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $201Makenzie B. Bentley
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021 · Lincoln Memorial University Medical DepartmentFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $29Taylor Berner
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2020FemaleWhitni Boggs
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2025FemaleJenna L. Boothe
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2017FemaleJohna M. Browning
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021 · Lincoln Memorial University Medical DepartmentFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $49Jamie Brumfield
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2019FemaleAmber Bryant
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2022FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2Joann Carroll
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $130Brian K. Catron
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2020MaleSarah A. Coleman, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $232Jacqueline M. Combs
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2015FemaleJanie Combs
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2010FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $164Jonathan D. Combs
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2024MaleMara Combs
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2025FemaleShawn Compton
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2022FemaleOther offices in Hazard: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $30Larry T. Conley
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2022MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $373Ashley Cook, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2017FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $139Brianna D. Cornett
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2014FemaleOther offices in Hazard: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $654Christel Cornett
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2024FemaleLyndci M. Cornett
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2022FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $112Elizabeth S. Crank
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2013FemaleLeslie Deaton
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2012FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $81Allison D. Dezarn, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016FemaleOther offices in Hazard: 1Carolyn M. Eddington
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021FemaleOther offices in Hazard: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $647Ashley B. Elswick
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $442Brittany L. Gibson
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021 · Lincoln Memorial University Medical DepartmentFemaleKristy Godsey
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2018FemaleOther offices in Hazard: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $17Jenna I. Green
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2020FemaleSherri L. Griffie
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2022FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $118Diana M. Gullett, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2014 · University of Cincinnati College of MedicineFemaleJames Hall
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2010MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $122Mahala C. Hamblin
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2025FemaleOther offices in Hazard: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $16Jonathan S. Helton, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2011MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $108Christie D. Herald, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2005FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $603Shannon Herald
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2007FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $512Lori A. Howard
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2006FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $50Angela Hubbard
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $260Amy P. Hurley, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $122Kristen M. Hurt
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2024FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $86Whitney Joseph
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2024FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $256Sherry Kelly, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1995FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $378Sandra L. Krasnopolsky
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2006FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $854Megan L. Lewis, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $749Megan P. Lewis
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2024FemaleOther offices in Hazard: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $500Samantha Lewis
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2014FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $174Kelsey Lowe
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2022FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $593Whitney N. Maggard
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2022FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $71Crystal Martinez
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2021FemaleBrandi M. McCoy
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2019FemaleOther offices in Hazard: 1Donald McPherson
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2009MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $265Lacie D. Meadows
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2018 · Lincoln Memorial University Medical DepartmentFemaleTammy R. Melton
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2018FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $69Justin Messer
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2024MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $49Brandon Miller
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2026MaleAshli Mullins
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2018FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $686Evelyn Mullins
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2019FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $112Kristi Nix
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021FemaleOther offices in Hazard: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $130David Pace
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2022MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $232Mary Lez Perry
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $127Paula J. Runyon
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2010FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,435Pamela B. Sebastian
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2024FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $122Hannah G. Shelton
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2019FemaleRobert J. Shepherd
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2023MaleJoella Sizemore, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2011FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $238Carol L. Slone
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $82Leandra Smith
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2008FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $138Melissa Smith
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2023FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $75Deloris A. Sparkman
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2023FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $20Wanda R. Stidham
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2024FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $350Roger Strunk
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2015FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $178Ashley A. Taylor
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2014FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $121Heather A. Thompson
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2018FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $253Chelsea Walker
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2018FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $78
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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 Hazard
- Primary care doctors41
- Cardiologists9
- Orthopedic surgeons4
- Neurologists5
- Optometrists4
- Urologists9
- Pulmonologists5
- Psychiatrists4
- Therapists and counselors34
- Chiropractors5
- General surgeons5
Other care in Hazard
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).