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Nurse practitioners who accept Medicare in Saint Joseph, MO
CMS lists 133 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Saint Joseph. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 130. Offer telehealth: 26.
Nurse practitioners can diagnose, treat and prescribe, and many work as primary care clinicians for Medicare patients.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 64506 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $82, of which you pay about $20; a follow-up visit $93, of which you pay about $23 — 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.
Amanda C. Caldwell
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 100/100FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $99,617Corey J. Krenz
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95/100Graduated 2022MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,285Michael R. Balak
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94.5/100Graduated 2019MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $120Dustin R. Helsel
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94.5/100Graduated 2013MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,009Bethany A. Randles
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94.5/100Graduated 2017FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $155Katherine E. Christensen, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 92.9/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2005FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,285Ginger E. McIntosh-James, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 92.9/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1998 · University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of MedicineFemaleAllison Smith, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 92.9/100Graduated 2021FemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 4Drug and device company payments (2025): $2,005Paul J. Wohletz
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 92.9/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2019MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $696Barbara McCullough
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 92.7/100Graduated 2019FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $45Melinda J. Godsey, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 92.7/100Graduated 2014FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $31Dorothy L. Cox
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 91.5/100Graduated 2014FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $14Catherine Long
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.4/100Graduated 2022FemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $290Deborah L. Uplinger, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.8/100Graduated 2003FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $193Brent A. Matthews
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.5/100Graduated 2021MaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 3Crystal L. Ashburn, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2017FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,355Whitney B. Atha
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2013FemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 4Drug and device company payments (2025): $154Kevin D. Baer
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2019MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $134Rebecca Barton
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2020FemaleStacie R. Beck
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2011FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $31Marti J. Burri
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2019FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $839Kristin A. Cecil
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2019FemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 4Nicole E. Cordonnier
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2019FemaleMelissa Cranfield
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2020 · University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $134Kylie Dishman
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2014 · University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 2Melissa M. Farris
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2013 · University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 7Drug and device company payments (2025): $920Aryn Fidler, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2023FemaleKaren M. Fischer, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 1993FemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $979Stacie A. Fisher Biller
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2009FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $275Amanda B. Friesz
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2022FemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 8Drug and device company payments (2025): $281Linda L. Gerhardt, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2010FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $253Paula J. Gimson, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 1992FemaleMandi D. Griffin
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2007 · University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 5Drug and device company payments (2025): $117Laura E. Gross, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2019FemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $122Rachel L. Gunderson
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2011FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $678Nicole L. Halsey
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2019FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $146Stevie J. Hiatt
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2020FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $48Heather M. Hilsabeck, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2016FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $16Christine D. Howard, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2010FemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $525Tracy L. Howery, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2011 · University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 5Drug and device company payments (2025): $27Sheree C. Kruske
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2018FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,261Ashley N. Lance, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2012FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $864Misty D. Langford, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2013FemaleQuentin Mabury
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2021MaleKatie B. McCreath, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2017FemaleDana L. McDaniel, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2005FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $345Laura E. McFadden
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2017FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,445Kasey L. Miles, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2004FemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 4Drug and device company payments (2025): $255Tina D. Miller
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2022FemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 5Drug and device company payments (2025): $163Rachelle D. Motsinger
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2010FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $103Rose M. Mutunga
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2011FemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 2Jamie L. Myers
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2023FemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 4Estella M. Myrick
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2016FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $162Nicole D. Ohare
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2014FemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $393Jean M. Patrick
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2015FemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 4Drug and device company payments (2025): $125Melinda K. Pemberton, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2009FemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $143Sarah Perdue
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2018FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $56Elizabeth Renshaw
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2018FemalePeggy S. Rittscher, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 1996FemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 4Taylor Sadler
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2022FemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 4Drug and device company payments (2025): $305Andrea J. Saverino
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2018FemaleAubrey C. Sedlacek
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2021 · University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $203Lauren A. Short, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2011FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $384Whitney D. Simmons, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2011FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $16Melanie R. Smith
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2021FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $202Malinda M. Stone, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2013 · University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $20Anna M. Strueby
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2021FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,130Brynde J. Thomas
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2019FemaleKera Thompson
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2021FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $117Cassandra D. Veale
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2022 · University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 4Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,472Tiffany J. Vorderstrasse
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2010FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $122Patricia J. Waddell, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1999FemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 4Drug and device company payments (2025): $27Brandi N. Weaver, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 1999FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $260James Weaver, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 2001MaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 2Deborah J. White
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2015FemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $472Rhea J. Williams, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100Graduated 1996FemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $379Abra A. Woolard
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.8/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2012FemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,628Nicole Ragland, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.6/100Graduated 2011FemaleBeth A. Horseman
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 79.1/100Graduated 2019FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $294Brittany J. Adams, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2019FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $43Rachel Amin, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2023FemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 6Drug and device company payments (2025): $555William Beachum Iii, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2022MaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 4Drug and device company payments (2025): $830Suzan I. Bird, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $717Audrey A. Bolden
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2017FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $431Dana R. Calloway, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2019FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $77Hillary Contreras
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021FemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 5Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,658Megan Cordova
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2025 · University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $158Andrea H. Coy
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2024 · University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 8Drug and device company payments (2025): $297Kathy F. Darnell, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1987FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,867Denise D. Dawkins
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2004FemaleRachel R. Dunston
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $503Emily P. Duran
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2024FemaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $243Darci L. Feiden, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2015FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $667Trey K. Forward, NP
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021MaleRyan Gillies
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2024MaleOther offices in Saint Joseph: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $57Corissa G. Giseburt
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2025FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $154Jenna L. Hughes
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2022FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $689Lundan Johnson
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2025 · University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of MedicineFemaleBeulah Joshua
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021 · University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $520Susan L. Kirkle
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2013FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $53
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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.
Other specialists in Saint Joseph
- Primary care doctors68
- Cardiologists42
- Dermatologists8
- Orthopedic surgeons7
- Neurologists10
- Gastroenterologists8
- Ophthalmologists8
- Optometrists12
- Podiatrists6
- Urologists5
- Pulmonologists10
- Nephrologists3
- Rheumatologists3
- ENT doctors3
- Oncologists3
- Psychiatrists13
- Therapists and counselors30
- Physical therapists18
- Chiropractors16
- Gynecologists14
- General surgeons13
- Vascular surgeons6
- Physiatrists3
- Neurosurgeons6
Other care in Saint Joseph
Hospitals · Nursing homes · Dialysis centers · Home health agencies · Hospices
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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).