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Nephrologists who accept Medicare in Missoula, MT
CMS lists 11 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Missoula. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 11. Offer telehealth: 4.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 59808 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $131, of which you pay about $33; a follow-up visit $100, 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.
Lindsay C. Crawford, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94.7/100Graduated 2002MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $233Cindy K. Sharp, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87/100Graduated 1992 · University of Mississippi School of MedicineFemaleShahid S. Chaudhary, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1997MaleOther offices in Missoula: 5Gil A. Cu, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1983MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $248Benjamin Fritz, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1997 · Stanford University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Missoula: 1Christine M. Ives, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1996 · Medical College of WisconsinFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $53John D. Lakatua, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1993 · University of Minnesota Medical SchoolMaleOther offices in Missoula: 3Benjamin O. Lawson, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2015MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $66David Owshalimpur, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2003MaleKevin A. Rossiter, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1983 · Rutgers, Robert Woood Johnson Medical SchoolMaleNeil S. Umles, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2015MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $49
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).