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General surgeons who accept Medicare in Covington, LA
CMS lists 24 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Covington. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 24. Offer telehealth: 2.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 70433 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $84, of which you pay about $21; a follow-up visit $67, 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.
William G. Terral, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 100/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2011 · Louisiana State University School of Medicine in ShreveportMaleOther offices in Covington: 1Dorothy A. Lewis, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.9/100Graduated 1991 · Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New OrleansFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $91Marco E. Hidalgo, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 81.1/100Graduated 2007MaleHumberto Bohorquez, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1989MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,245David S. Bruce, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1985 · University of Michigan Medical SchoolMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $129Emily M. Bugeaud, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2004 · University of Michigan Medical SchoolFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $36Angela Buonagura, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1997 · Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New OrleansFemaleIrene S. Caillouet
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2008 · Tulane University School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $97Ian C. Carmody, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1992MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $670Morgan L. Cookmeyer, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2019 · Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New OrleansFemaleOther offices in Covington: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $163Ralph L. Corsetti, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1991 · Boston University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Covington: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $19,807Jacob B. Daigle, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2009 · Louisiana State University School of Medicine in ShreveportMaleOther offices in Covington: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $158Michael W. Dupre, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1994 · Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New OrleansMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $14Kirsten Gambrell, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2007FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,611Mark G. Jones, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2009 · Louisiana State University School of Medicine in ShreveportMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $125Richard T. Leblanc, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1995 · Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New OrleansMaleJonathan B. Moss, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2017 · Louisiana State University School of Medicine in ShreveportMaleOther offices in Covington: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $649Idorenyin Ndem, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2018FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,242Adwoa Opoku-Boateng, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2005 · Loma Linda University School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $442Derek Palmer, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2013MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $155Christopher G. Porter, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2018 · Texas a & M University System, HSC, College of MedicineMaleOther offices in Covington: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $23Surendra K. Purohit, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1968MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $427John B. Seal, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2006MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,085James B. Wooldridge Jr., MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2003 · University of Tennessee, HSC, College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,447
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).