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Primary care doctors who accept Medicare in Wheaton, MD
CMS lists 31 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Wheaton. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 30. Offer telehealth: 9.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 20902 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $148, of which you pay about $37; a follow-up visit $114, of which you pay about $28 — 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.
Daniel J. Merenstein, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1997 · Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson UniversityMaleAfshin Javan, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.6/100Graduated 1998MaleMustafa Abdulmahdi, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.5/100Graduated 2018MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $101Alaine Ainsley, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.3/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2017FemaleUchenna Emeche, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.3/100Graduated 2010FemaleChrystal L. Pristell, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.3/100Graduated 2020 · Ohio University, College of Osteopathic MedicineFemaleSeyedeh Alaie, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 72.9/100Graduated 2019 · Howard University College of MedicineFemaleCatherine G. Njiru Sewer, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 69.2/100Graduated 2018 · Edward Via Col of Osteo Medicine-Virginia CampusFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $150Anthony Smith, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 55.4/100Graduated 2018MaleEnoh E. Akpandak, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2001 · Howard University College of MedicineFemaleEjiroghene E. Akpofure-Harris, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2005 · Ohio State University College of MedicineFemaleNofisat Almaroof, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2015FemaleEric Bernon, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2003MaleStephanie Brown, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1996FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $47Shawn S. Clausen, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1987 · Georgetown University School of MedicineFemaleAashish Dewan, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2020 · University of Toledo College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $60Aaron Gerstenmaier, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2010 · Ohio State University College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $24,395Teresa Gomez-Bramble, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2015 · Northwestern University Feinberg Medical SchoolFemaleErlyne Hyppolite-Pedroso, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2014FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $41Wajeed Khan, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1984 · George Washington University School of MedicineMaleGarrett S. Kneese, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2022 · University of Texas Medical School at San AntonioMaleMargaret Kosnar, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2007 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of MedicineFemaleBrian J. Lin, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2022 · University of Maryland School of MedicineMaleMary A. Mitchell, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2015 · Kansas City University of Med & Biosciences, College of Osteo MedFemaleEleni O'Donovan, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2005 · University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolFemaleAerial Petty, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2021 · Alabama College of Osteopathic MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $19Namarig Soumit, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016 · West Virginia School of Osteopathic MedicineFemaleGandhrav Telhan, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2013 · Edward Via Col of Osteo Medicine-Virginia CampusMaleJenel S. Wyatt, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2002 · University of Michigan Medical SchoolFemaleArifuz Zaman, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2013MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $24Howard Bassel, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 1984 · University of Cincinnati College of MedicineMale
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).