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Rheumatologists who accept Medicare in Hackensack, NJ
CMS lists 10 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Hackensack. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 10. Offer telehealth: 2.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 07601 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $145, of which you pay about $36; a follow-up visit $112, of which you pay about $28 — 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.
Gilbert Kepecs, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 97.2/100Graduated 1986 · Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva UniversityMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,272Rishi Patel, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 96.9/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2015 · Drexel University College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $143Anna Broder, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 96.1/100Graduated 2002FemaleMichael Guma, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 85.2/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1989 · At Still University of Health Sciences, College of Osteo Med, KirksvilleMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,057Deborah R. Alpert, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 81.3/100Graduated 2001 · New York University School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $5,522Sarah Bayefsky, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 81.3/100Graduated 2016FemaleOther offices in Hackensack: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $177Halyna Kuzyshyn, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 81.3/100Graduated 2001FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,144Xiaoyin Tang, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 81.3/100Graduated 1984FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,682James Topilow, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 81.3/100Graduated 2018MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $591James L. Cappadona, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1989 · Rutgers New Jersey Medical SchoolMale
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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- Neurologists79
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- Ophthalmologists4
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- Nephrologists31
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- Therapists and counselors43
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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).