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Nephrologists who accept Medicare in Albuquerque, NM
CMS lists 36 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Albuquerque. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 36. Offer telehealth: 15.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 87109 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $126, of which you pay about $32; a follow-up visit $96, of which you pay about $24 — 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.
Milagros Samaniego-Picota, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 100/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1984FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $438Christos P. Argyropoulos
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.6/100Graduated 1997MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $57Pablo Garcia, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.6/100Graduated 2012MaleOther offices in Albuquerque: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $91James I. Gibb, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.6/100Graduated 2001 · Eastern Virginia Medical SchoolMaleSiressha Koppula, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.6/100Graduated 1999FemaleJonathan G. Owen, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.6/100Graduated 2005 · Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New OrleansMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $147Darren Schmidt, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.6/100Graduated 1999MaleNamita Singh, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.6/100Graduated 2009FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $91Pooja P. Singh, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.6/100Graduated 2005 · University of Texas Medical Branch at GalvestonFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $42Manoocher Soleimani, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.6/100Graduated 1978MaleBrent T. Wagner, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.6/100Graduated 1999 · University of New Mexico School of MedicineMaleKirby D. Gabrys, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.1/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1989 · Loma Linda University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $559Gustavo A. Espino, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.7/100Graduated 1986MaleOther offices in Albuquerque: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $762Biju Cherian, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.1/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2003 · Texas Tech University Health Science Center School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $734Mohamed Abdali, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2014MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $910Chudi N. Adi, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1989MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $524Ahmed H. Alaini, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2000MaleOther offices in Albuquerque: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $217Eduardo A. Alas, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2003 · University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at DallasMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $896Satyaki Banerjee, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1999MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $19,094Thelmo Fidel Barrantes-Ramirez, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2004MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $546Rajarshi Bhadra, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2008MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $57Eric Y. Brown, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1985 · Emory University School of MedicineMaleKarla G. Carias Martinez, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2013FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $132Christine Chen, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2002FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $351Dale G. Erickson, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1965 · Indiana University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $295Bolajoko O. Fayoda, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2015MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $513Jose L. Henao, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2022 · University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $7,169Jayant Kumar, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1992MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,181Sonam P. Kundeling, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1992MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,184Luis Madera Marin, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2017MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $156Claudio Perez-Ledezma, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2005MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,112Arun Rajasekaran, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2011MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $19,564Leonard A. Romero, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2003 · University of New Mexico School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $482Maybin Simfukwe, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1999 · University of Texas Medical Branch at GalvestonMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,532Ravi K. Thimmisetty, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2005MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $625George A. Vasquez Rios, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2015MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $18,309
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).