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Optometrists who accept Medicare in Traverse City, MI
CMS lists 29 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Traverse City. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 27. 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 49684 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $126, of which you pay about $32; a follow-up visit $68, 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.
Kathleen M. Leahy, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 80.5/100Graduated 2019 · Ferris State College - College of OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $237Jerry C. Appold, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1987 · University of Missouri St Louis - School of OptometryMaleOther offices in Traverse City: 1Marc L. Austhof, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1996 · Southern College of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $13Nathan G. Baas, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2002 · Ferris State College - College of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $211David Cannon
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1982 · Ferris State College - College of OptometryMaleOther offices in Traverse City: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $25Roseanna M. David, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2002FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $285Patrick J. Ebert, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1989 · Illinois College of Optometry at ChicagoMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $44Grace M. Farrell, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2017FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $31Christopher A. Gilmartin, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2009 · Southern California College of OptometryMaleJohn C. Hanford, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1989 · Ferris State College - College of OptometryMaleOther offices in Traverse City: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $292Jennifer L. Henbest, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2003FemaleOther offices in Traverse City: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $101Jodi M. Hummel, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2001FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $679Christopher J. Kowalski, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016 · Southern College of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $57Anna Lammers, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2014 · Southern College of OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $357Kevin W. Leahy, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2019MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $607Jennifer A. Lintz, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1999 · Ferris State College - College of OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $171Johanna M. Mauk, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016 · Ferris State College - College of OptometryFemaleOther offices in Traverse City: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $197Shawn R. Miller, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2014MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $47Mark D. Noss, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1980 · Ferris State College - College of OptometryMaleOther offices in Traverse City: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $19Christopher M. Reed, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2018 · Indiana University - School of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $61Julie P. Ritter, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1993 · Ferris State College - College of OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $33Karisa Ritter
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2003 · Ferris State College - College of OptometryFemaleOther offices in Traverse City: 1Edward L. Scarbrough, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1989 · Indiana University - School of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $137Lauren E. Skarnulis, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2004 · Ferris State College - College of OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $154Michael J. Skipski, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2024 · Indiana University - School of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $81Scott J. Soave, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2009 · Pennsylvania College of OptometryMaleOther offices in Traverse City: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $34Robin A. Talaga, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2006FemaleOther offices in Traverse City: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $184Landon B. Fetzer
May accept assignmentGraduated 2026Julie Slough Runstrom, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 1987 · Ferris State College - College of OptometryFemale
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).