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Primary care doctors who accept Medicare in Chalmette, LA
CMS lists 27 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Chalmette. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 27. Offer telehealth: 20.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 70043 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $129, of which you pay about $32; a follow-up visit $98, of which you pay about $25 — 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.
Ronald C. McLendon Jr., MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 96.7/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2008 · Tulane University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $245Llaura Beach, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 93.4/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2011FemaleKeely E. Fischbach, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 93.4/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2011 · University of South Florida College of MedicineFemaleLeocardy Pierre, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 91.5/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2014FemaleRajender Agarwal, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2005MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $125Amir H. Ausef, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2001MaleStephen M. Bertucci, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2017 · Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New OrleansMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $78Aaron P. Best, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2001MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $19Houston G. Bonnyman, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2011 · University of Tennessee, HSC, College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $19Hector M. Cabrera, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1994 · Tulane University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $28Dokun T. Dairo, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1998MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $14Hop Duong, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2011MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $654Ashleigh D. Dupuy, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2020FemaleBrainerd Ewarien, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2015 · University of Maryland School of MedicineMaleMeghan C. Gaddis, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2015 · Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New OrleansFemaleJames Hall, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2003MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $85Ashwin P. Jaikishen, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2011MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $14,941Parijat Joy, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1998MaleNeelam Khan, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2002FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $16Mai T. Lam, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2014 · Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New OrleansFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $62Diana T. McDermott, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2003 · Tulane University School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $249Matthew Morgan, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2017MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $15Van K. Nguyen, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2017FemaleOlayiwola Salmon, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2000MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $25Joshua D. Sifuentes, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2016 · University of New Mexico School of MedicineMaleAbdolreza Vadiee, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1996 · Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New OrleansMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,108Paul R. Verrette, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1983 · Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New OrleansMaleOther offices in Chalmette: 1
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).