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Primary care doctors who accept Medicare in Locust, NC
CMS lists 18 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Locust. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 11. Offer telehealth: 9.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 28097 (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.
John Paul Velasco, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2012MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $82Linda Agyapong, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $494Amy L. Alexanian, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1999 · Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina UniversityFemaleRobert A. Barnabei, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1994MaleMarianthe M. Burns, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2003 · Medical College of OhioFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $84Valencia P. Covington, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1983 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $46Anjalee K. Dave, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2012FemaleMichael S. Hoben, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1998 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of MedicineMaleTravis W. Howell, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2003MaleLisa N. Miller, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1998FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $28Ashley M. Perrott, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2004FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $25Theodore M. Kelley, MD
May accept assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2007 · University of Tennessee, HSC, College of MedicineMaleSteven E. Lucas, MD
May accept assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2002 · Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina UniversityMaleMargaret I. Trzebiatowski, DO
May accept assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2005 · Kansas City College of Medicine and SurgeryFemaleJanna K. Featherstone, DO
May accept assignmentGraduated 2020FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $974Robert P. Neubauer, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2020MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $979Raymond R. Perez, MD
May accept assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2007MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,659Ricardo Vargas, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 1996MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,345
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).