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Nurse practitioners who accept Medicare in Ocean City, MD
CMS lists 13 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Ocean City. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 13. Offer telehealth: 6.
Nurse practitioners can diagnose, treat and prescribe, and many work as primary care clinicians for Medicare patients.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 21842 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $90, of which you pay about $22; a follow-up visit $102, of which you pay about $26 — 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.
Melissa L. Braniff, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.2/100Graduated 2019FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $276Cheryl Layfield, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.2/100Graduated 1995FemaleOther offices in Ocean City: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $3,146Allison Pusey, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.2/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2022FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $956Amy Sood Barshinger, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.2/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2007FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $552Kristen Abbott, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2020FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,034Iris H. Gehring, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2018FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $152Regina Gelinas, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2017FemaleOther offices in Ocean City: 1Faith M. Lauer, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2023FemaleOther offices in Ocean City: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $485Mary D. Mason, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2024FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $908Jennifer Mays, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2003FemaleOther offices in Ocean City: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $733Dawn Ploucher, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2022FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $239Leanna Pusey, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2022FemaleOther offices in Ocean City: 1Danielle Sweitzer, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2020FemaleOther offices in Ocean City: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $27
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).