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Rheumatologists who accept Medicare in Saint Paul, MN
CMS lists 11 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Saint Paul. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 11. Offer telehealth: 10.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 55107 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $128, of which you pay about $32; a follow-up visit $99, of which you pay about $25 — 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.
Matthew K. McElwee, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.6/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2015MaleOther offices in Saint Paul: 3Mohanad M. Elfishawi
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.6/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2012MaleNitika Ghattaura, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.6/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2006FemaleOther offices in Saint Paul: 3Christopher Edward Garces, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 85.6/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2015MaleElie Gertner, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1980MaleMichele A. Obert
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2019FemaleOther offices in Saint Paul: 6Drug and device company payments (2025): $125Huzaif Qaisar, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2011MaleOther offices in Saint Paul: 2Kyle C. Sinclair, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2010 · University of Arizona College of MedicineMaleVinay Kumar Thallapally
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2018MaleOther offices in Saint Paul: 4Vincent Tran
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2019 · University of Minnesota Medical SchoolMaleOther offices in Saint Paul: 5Jasmeen K. Uppal, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2018FemaleOther offices in Saint Paul: 4Drug and device company payments (2025): $18
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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).