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Optometrists who accept Medicare in Lake Charles, LA
CMS lists 12 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Lake Charles. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 12. Offer telehealth: 0.
Original Medicare doesn't cover routine eye exams for glasses or contact lenses; it covers eye care for medical conditions such as cataracts, glaucoma and diabetic eye disease.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 70605 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $125, of which you pay about $31; 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.
Morgan J. Gillis, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 98.6/100Graduated 2017 · Pennsylvania College of OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $440Steven C. East, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.9/100Graduated 2006 · Southern College of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $199Katherine J. Fontenot, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.9/100Graduated 2018FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $15Melvin M. Gehrig, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.9/100Graduated 1971 · Illinois College of Optometry at ChicagoMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $530Jeffrey S. Hankin, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.9/100Graduated 1978 · Southern College of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $382Rebecca A. Kindler, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.9/100Graduated 2014 · University of Houston - College of OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $120Lindsey N. Primeaux, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.9/100Graduated 2018FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $40Keith M. Menard, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 0/100Graduated 2003 · Southern College of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $464Lauren M. McCain, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2017 · Southern College of OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $90Mason D. McCain, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2017 · Southern College of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $384Wayne A. McClure, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1980 · Southern College of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $90Jennifer S. Smith, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2019 · Southern College of OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $456
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).