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Nephrologists who accept Medicare in Durham, NC
CMS lists 46 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Durham. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 46. Offer telehealth: 25.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 27705 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $125, of which you pay about $31; 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.
Nawal Habib, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 20.6/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2012FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $289Arash Ataei, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021 · Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New OrleansMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $132Romin Bonakdar, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2014 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $742David W. Butterly, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1987 · Duke University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Durham: 2Christian B. Cameron, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2010 · Loma Linda University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Durham: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $4Benjamin P. Catanese, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2019 · New York Medical CollegeMaleAnnabelle N. Chua, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1999 · Wake Forest University School of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Durham: 2Charles I. Cooperberg, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1982MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $489Steven D. Crowley, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1996 · Duke University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Durham: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $145Daniel L. Edmonston, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2013MaleOther offices in Durham: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $5,665Matthew J. Ellis, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2002 · Duke University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Durham: 2Miguel R. Escobar, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1999MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $571Rebecca S. Frazier, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2013FemaleOther offices in Durham: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $177Tomasz Gawecki
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1993MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $200Rasheed A. Gbadegesin, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1987MaleOther offices in Durham: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $15,450Gentzon Hall, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2007 · University of Maryland School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $29,871Irma Husain, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2015FemaleAmarnath A. Kathresal, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1994MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $779Goni Katz Greenberg, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2012FemaleOther offices in Durham: 2Eugene C. Kovalik, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1987MaleOther offices in Durham: 2Ruediger W. Lehrich, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1995MaleOther offices in Durham: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $31Xunrong Luo, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1998 · Duke University School of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Durham: 2John P. Middleton
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1983MaleOther offices in Durham: 3Susan L. Murray, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2010FemaleOther offices in Durham: 2John L. Musgrove, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2014 · University of Alabama School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Durham: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $2,664Sarah Nystrom, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2013FemaleOpeyemi A. Olabisi, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2009 · Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva UniversityMaleOther offices in Durham: 2David I. Ortiz Melo, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2004MaleOther offices in Durham: 2Aruna P. Phekoo, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2019FemaleOther offices in Durham: 3Shweta Punj, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2008FemaleOther offices in Durham: 3Vinaya Rao, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1985FemaleOther offices in Durham: 3Rasha Raslan, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2017FemaleOther offices in Durham: 5Drug and device company payments (2025): $132John Roberts, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2009MaleOther offices in Durham: 2Scott L. Sanoff, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2002 · Clvlnd Clinic Lerner College of Med of Case Wstn RSV UniversityMaleOther offices in Durham: 2Micah K. Schub, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2018 · University of Pittsburgh School of MedicineMaleSamuel T. Shaikewitz, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1988 · Washington University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $722Matthew R. Sinclair, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2014 · Howard University College of MedicineMaleOther offices in Durham: 3Harpreet K. Singh, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2011FemaleOther offices in Durham: 4Stephen R. Smith, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1985 · Duke University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Durham: 3Matthew A. Sparks, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2003 · University of Arkansas College of MedicineMaleOther offices in Durham: 3Anna K. Strasma, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2017 · Medical College of Georgia School of MedicineFemaleAlessandra G. Tomasi, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2020 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Durham: 3Crystal C. Tyson, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2005 · Wayne State University School of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Durham: 3Pamela C. Vasquez Buitron, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2012FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $43Gayle M. Vranic, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2006 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of MedicineFemaleChristina Wyatt, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1999 · Duke University School of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Durham: 4Drug and device company payments (2025): $2,229
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).