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Optometrists who accept Medicare in Tupelo, MS
CMS lists 21 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Tupelo. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 19. 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 38804 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $120, of which you pay about $30; a follow-up visit $65, of which you pay about $16 — 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.
Lana L. Taylor, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 98.9/100Graduated 2008 · Southern College of OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $446Dax M. Eckard, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75/100Graduated 1999 · Southern College of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $840Chelsea M. McKnight, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75/100Graduated 2015 · Southern College of OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $815Fred Mothershed, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75/100Graduated 1975 · Southern College of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $553Michael B. McCullough, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 0/100Graduated 2018MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $107Samantha Beaty, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1996FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $353Steven C. Beaty, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1996 · University Alabama Birmingham - School of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $364Lloyd P. Britt Jr., OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1983 · Southern College of OptometryMaleOther offices in Tupelo: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $167Maurice A. Clark, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2004 · University of Missouri St Louis - School of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $68Elizabeth M. Darby, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1996 · Southern College of OptometryFemaleElizabeth W. Eckard, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1997 · Southern College of OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $130Leslie R. Jones, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2023FemaleJoe Kea, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1992 · Southern College of OptometryMaleKathryn M. McCullough, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1979 · Southern College of OptometryFemaleOther offices in Tupelo: 1Andrew H. McDonald, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2024 · University Alabama Birmingham - School of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $68Angela Milam
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016 · International American University at Puerto Rico - School of OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $4,488Joseph S. Schlesinger, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1992 · Southern College of OptometryMaleNorman D. Streifel, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1997 · Illinois College of Optometry at ChicagoMaleJoshua H. Wilson, OD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016 · University of Houston - College of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $15Joseph C. Warren, OD
May accept assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.2/100Graduated 2023 · University of Missouri St Louis - School of OptometryMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $156Katie E. Richardson, OD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2016 · Southern College of OptometryFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $194
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).