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Ophthalmologists who accept Medicare in West Columbia, SC
CMS lists 16 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in West Columbia. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 16. Offer telehealth: 0.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 29169 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $124, of which you pay about $31; a follow-up visit $67, 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.
Joshua G. Nunn, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 100/100Graduated 2014 · University of Virginia School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $272Monique D. Courtenay
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 99.8/100Graduated 2019 · Medical University of South Carolina College of MedicineFemaleOther offices in West Columbia: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $135Edward G. Crosswell
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 99.4/100Graduated 2009 · Medical University of South Carolina College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $183Daniel Will, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 92.5/100Graduated 1998 · Georgetown University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $273Bethany C. Bray, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.1/100Graduated 2005 · University of South Carolina School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $961Briana K. Brunner, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 83.6/100Graduated 2017FemaleOther offices in West Columbia: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $634Barron C. Fishburne, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1991 · University of Oklahoma College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $66Teresa E. Fowler, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2020 · Mercer University School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $89Jeffrey G. Gross, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1983 · Virginia Commonwealth University, School of MedicineMaleStephen M. Hypes, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2013 · West Virginia School of Osteopathic MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $879David L. Johnson, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2002 · University of South Carolina School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $157Nitin Nigam, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2001MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $284Manuel Paez-Escamilla, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2013MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $79Shail Patel, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2021MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,995John F. Payne, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2006 · Medical University of South Carolina College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $134John A. Wells III, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1982 · Emory University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $722
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).