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Primary care doctors who accept Medicare in Passaic, NJ
CMS lists 49 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Passaic. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 49. Offer telehealth: 16.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 07055 (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.
Peter G. Zazzali, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 100/100Graduated 1990 · Rutgers New Jersey Medical SchoolMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $171Stacy Galgocy, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 96.1/100Graduated 2019FemaleKaren R. Stephenson, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.3/100Graduated 1995 · Rutgers, Robert Woood Johnson Medical SchoolFemaleSaraswati Dayal, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75/100Graduated 1998 · Howard University College of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $3,709Karen Thornton, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1989 · Temple University School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,541William F. Grella, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 37.1/100Graduated 1997MaleVasiliky Tsirogiannis, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 23.9/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2001FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $24Yvonne Ablorh-Odjidja, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2001FemaleNael A. Abutabikh, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1988MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $300Aarti Agarwal, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2003 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of MedicineFemaleMichael J. Akerman, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1981 · University of Rochester School of Medicine and DentistryMaleMina E. Alkomos, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2014MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,280Puneet Babbar, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1997FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $135Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2001 · University of Illinois College of Med (chi/peor/rock/chm-Urb)MaleAbdel Azim Bayoumy, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1998MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $39Zahra Beizaeipour, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2018FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $407Saloni Brahmbhatt, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2017FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $142Kinga Budnicka, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $313Paul G. Demuro, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1979 · At Still University of Health Sciences, College of Osteo Med, KirksvilleMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $660Walid M. Elkhalili, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2011MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,392Robert M. Gajdos, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1985MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $189Taulant Gashi, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2011MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $333Moutaz Ghrewati, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2014MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,809Vikram Gupta, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2001MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,520Samir H. Haddad, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1979MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,505Bassam E. Hashem, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1984MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $16Sung H. Hong, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2018MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $977Toufiq Imtiaz, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2013MaleManuel A. Jimenez, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $494Joji Joseph, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2002MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $840Ahmed Kawamj, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2019MaleRadhika Maddali, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1996FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $784Ricardo Matienzo, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1980MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $323Sneha Parikh, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2024FemaleOther offices in Passaic: 1Milan D. Patel, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2010MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $649Ahmad M. Qatanani, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2020 · Rowan University School of Osteopathic MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $215Murad Qirem, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2025MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $141Carlos Sacristan, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1982MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $91Sameh Scander, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2014MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $41Deepak O. Shah, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1975MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $686Husnain Shaukat, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2012MaleRavnit Singh, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2019MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,613Ishak G. Soliman, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1988MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,148Manasa Srinivasa Murthy, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2017FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $54Alexander Swan, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1988MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $8,323Amit Tailor, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2000MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,398Carlos A. Tejeda, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1998MaleOther offices in Passaic: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $847Ghassan L. Wardeh, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1989MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $746Cheryl Ziemba, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1986Female
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).