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Orthopedic surgeons who accept Medicare in Chapel Hill, NC
CMS lists 35 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Chapel Hill. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 32. Offer telehealth: 8.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 27514 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $84, of which you pay about $21; a follow-up visit $68, 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.
Michael K. Merz, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 100/100Graduated 2009 · University of Texas Medical School at San AntonioMaleOther offices in Chapel Hill: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $351Evan W. James, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 92.1/100Graduated 2016 · University of Minnesota Medical SchoolMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,395David J. Berkoff, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1997 · Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva UniversityMaleJoshua N. Berkowitz, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2010 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Chapel Hill: 1Andrew T. Chen
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2012 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $589Charles H. Classen Jr., MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1966 · University of Maryland School of MedicineMaleRobert Creighton, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1998 · Virginia Commonwealth University, School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Chapel Hill: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $106,489William De Araujo, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1990 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $18Reid W. Draeger, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2008 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $19Robert J. Esther, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1998 · Vanderbilt University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Chapel Hill: 1Marco S. Gupton, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2019 · Campbell Univ School of Osteopathic MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,010Eddie K. Hasty, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2011 · Virginia Commonwealth University, School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $44Ganesh V. Kamath, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2003MaleOther offices in Chapel Hill: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $5,541Benjamin V. Kelley, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2017MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,023Trapper A. Lalli, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2010 · West Virginia University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $18,112Stuart L. Mitchell, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2014 · Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,914Suhail K. Mithani, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2003 · Vanderbilt University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Chapel Hill: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $8,941Arvind S. Narayanan, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $344Clay G. Nelson, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2014 · Eastern Virginia Medical SchoolMaleChristopher W. Olcott, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1991 · University of Rochester School of Medicine and DentistryMaleOther offices in Chapel Hill: 1Robert A. Ottaviani, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1999 · Wayne State University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $282Jennifer M. Patterson, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2002 · Washington University School of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Chapel Hill: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $373Brian M. Phelps, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2019 · Eastern Virginia Medical SchoolMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $3,121James O. Sanders, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1986 · Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,042Michael K. Seifert, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2013 · University of South Florida College of MedicineMaleJoseph D. Stone, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2007 · Medical College of Georgia School of MedicineMaleGregory B. Summerville, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2013 · Wake Forest University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Chapel Hill: 3Jillian E. Sylvester, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2014 · Pennsylvania State University College of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Chapel Hill: 1Gregory A. Tayrose, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2008 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $246Joshua N. Tennant, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2007 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $129Anna D. Vergun, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2003 · JS Weill Medical College, Cornell UniversityFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,839Douglas S. Weinberg, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2013 · Tulane University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,099David C. McNabb, MD
May accept assignmentMIPS score (2024): 89.3/100Graduated 2009 · Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina UniversityMaleOther offices in Chapel Hill: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $7,760Tyler S. Watters, MD
May accept assignmentMIPS score (2024): 88.5/100Graduated 2010 · Duke University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Chapel Hill: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,269Gregory S. Bauer, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 1995 · Washington University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $21,224
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).