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Primary care doctors who accept Medicare in Kinston, NC
CMS lists 39 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Kinston. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 37. Offer telehealth: 16.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 28501 (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.
Haritha Ackula, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 97/100Graduated 2012FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,339Kris B. Cummings, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 97/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2004FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,175Neha N. Doctor, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 97/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1996MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $956Carl L. Haynes Jr., MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 97/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1980 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of MedicineMaleMohammad O. Iqbal, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 97/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1997MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,277Rupert W. Jilcott III, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 97/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1974 · University of Missouri, Columbia School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,256Kenneth L. Johnson II, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 97/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1997 · Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina UniversityMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $745Neelakanta D. Sukka
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 97/100Graduated 2008MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $315Khalil T. Abulatifa, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2001MaleOther offices in Kinston: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $38Shradha Acharya
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2020FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $20Wafa R. Badwan, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2005 · Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina UniversityFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $61David W. Baker III, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2011 · Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina UniversityMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,530Luz J. Barahona, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2010FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $258Varun K. Chukka
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2009MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $79Laddie M. Crisp, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1987 · Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina UniversityMaleJessica L. Deluca, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021FemaleFernando A. Escabi Mendez, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2006 · Ponce School of MedicineMaleOther offices in Kinston: 1Aaron L. Goldstein, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2014MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,403John K. John, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1995MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,326Tom Jose
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2007MaleSijan Khatiwada
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $24Kenton G. Kozel
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2022MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $20Brittany C. Lloyd, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2015 · Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina UniversityFemaleChristopher G. Nelson, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1998 · Saint Louis University School of MedicineMaleFranklin C. Niblock IV, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2018 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,421Ambrose S. Okonkwo, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1994 · Virginia Commonwealth University, School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $663Claire D. Paris, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1998FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $38Maria Ramos Mendez, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2008FemaleTeigha J. Randolph, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1989 · Texas Tech University Health Science Center School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,683Alleen D. Richards
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2020FemaleOther offices in Kinston: 1Faisal A. Sakeen, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2006MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $25Sandhya Sharma
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2013FemaleOther offices in Kinston: 1Ajai Shreevatsa, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1998MaleRicardo L. Valdivia, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1992MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $168Swathi Veliginti
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2015FemaleJohn Luis Viechweg, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2018MaleOther offices in Kinston: 1Candace Williams
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2024FemaleOther offices in Kinston: 1Uzma Ali, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2004FemaleSembua Danieli, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 1993MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $20
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.
Other specialists in Kinston
- Nurse practitioners56
- Cardiologists6
- Orthopedic surgeons5
- Gastroenterologists5
- Optometrists9
- Urologists9
- Pulmonologists3
- Nephrologists8
- Oncologists4
- Psychiatrists4
- Therapists and counselors20
- Occupational therapists3
- Speech therapists3
- Audiologists4
- Chiropractors3
- Gynecologists7
- General surgeons9
Other care in Kinston
Hospitals · Nursing homes · Dialysis centers · Home health agencies · Hospices
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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).