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Ophthalmologists who accept Medicare in Buffalo, NY
CMS lists 20 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Buffalo. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 20. Offer telehealth: 0.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 14209 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $126, of which you pay about $32; a follow-up visit $69, of which you pay about $17 — 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.
Steven Awner, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 99.1/100Graduated 1989 · Baylor College of MedicineMaleOther offices in Buffalo: 1Sandra L. Everett, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94.4/100Graduated 1992 · State University of New York at Buffalo School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $255Natasha Gautam, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94.4/100Graduated 2012FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $725Vaitheeswaran Ganesan Lalgudi, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94.4/100Graduated 2013MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $255John Lillvis, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94.4/100Graduated 2012 · Wayne State University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Buffalo: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $131Brian Madow, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94.4/100Graduated 1984MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $125Ruth M. Mattern, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94.4/100Graduated 1989 · Harvard Medical SchoolFemaleSangita Patel, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94.4/100Graduated 2004 · State University of New York at Buffalo School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $135Andrew Reynolds, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94.4/100Graduated 2011 · State University of New York at Buffalo School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Buffalo: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $16,041James Reynolds, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94.4/100Graduated 1978 · State University of New York at Buffalo School of MedicineMaleSandra M. Sieminski, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94.4/100Graduated 2005 · University of Pittsburgh School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,536John Sullivan, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94.4/100Graduated 1987 · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $81Asher Weiner, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94.4/100Graduated 1985MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $27David P. Montesanti, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 91.4/100Graduated 1998 · State University of New York at Buffalo School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $823John W. Crofts, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1979 · State University of New York at Buffalo School of MedicineMaleNorah S. Lincoff, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1988 · State University of New York at Buffalo School of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Buffalo: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $437Melissa A. Neal, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1999 · Pennsylvania State University College of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,290Dilipkumar J. Patel, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1965MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $449David J. Rodman, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1981 · State University of New York at Buffalo School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $465Jamie Schaefer, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2012FemaleOther offices in Buffalo: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $339
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).