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Optometrists who accept Medicare in Worcester, MA
CMS lists 38 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Worcester. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 13. 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 01608 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $134, of which you pay about $34; a follow-up visit $73, of which you pay about $18 — 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.
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✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 100/100Graduated 2017 · New England College of OptometryFemaleKevin Houston, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 100/100Graduated 2003 · Indiana University - School of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $185Firas Kassira, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 100/100Graduated 1990 · New England College of OptometryMaleSara A. Apollonio, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 92.5/100Graduated 2011 · New England College of OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $769Nicole F. Cerio, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2015 · New England College of OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $796Khuong A. Nguyen, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2003 · New England College of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $472Joseph V. Papandrea, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1983 · New England College of OptometryMaleValarie A. Ricciardi, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1988 · New England College of OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $717David C. Snowdon Jr.
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1980 · New England College of OptometryMaleBrian S. Thamel, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1988 · New England College of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $588Lauren A. Thamel, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021 · New England College of OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,208Jungling G. Wang, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1993 · New England College of OptometryFemaleDeborah M. Zopatti, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1996 · New England College of OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $311Lawerence Baitch, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 1982 · Illinois College of Optometry at ChicagoMaleAlyssa K. Batistine, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2018FemaleAllyx L. Beaulier, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2021FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $283Jessica D. Capri, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2019 · Illinois College of Optometry at ChicagoFemaleOther offices in Worcester: 1Jennifer Damico, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 1993 · State University of New York - State College OptometryFemaleOther offices in Worcester: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $377Kathryn W. Deliso, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2008 · New England College of OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $14Nicholas R. Feucht, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2011 · New England College of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $164Vincent D. Giovannucci, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 1981 · New England College of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $538Sanam Hafeez, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2023Mengli Han, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2016FemaleBridget C. Hendricks, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2005 · New England College of OptometryFemaleAngela Imperioli, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 1993 · New England College of OptometryFemaleAlia Khalaf, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2010 · New England College of OptometryFemaleAdrian Kohn, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2018MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $102Kathleen P. O'Leary, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2011 · Pennsylvania College of OptometryFemaleJami Parsons Malloy, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2009 · Illinois College of Optometry at ChicagoFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $164Kristen Peterson, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2018FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $22Ariadne Rowe, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2022FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $200Nikhil Saini
May accept assignmentGraduated 2011 · New England College of OptometryMaleJayasree Seshadri, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2009 · New England College of OptometryFemaleOther offices in Worcester: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $87Joseph M. Stamm, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 1982 · State University of New York - State College OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $4,545Kathryn Surdovel, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2016FemaleSamantha S. Vadakin, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2023FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $41Greg Waldorf, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 1996MaleJessica S. Walter, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2018FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,631
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).