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Ophthalmologists who accept Medicare in Chattanooga, TN
CMS lists 42 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Chattanooga. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 42. Offer telehealth: 1.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 37421 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $122, of which you pay about $30; a follow-up visit $66, 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.
Brett D. Gerwin, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 98.8/100Graduated 2007 · University of Alabama School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $361Dennis C. Matzkin, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94.3/100Graduated 1994 · Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva UniversityMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $300Courtney W. Ridner, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94/100Graduated 2004 · East Tennessee State University Quillen College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $904Jon C. Hildebrand, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 93.6/100Graduated 2015 · East Tennessee State University Quillen College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $486Thomas M. Reynolds, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 93.6/100Graduated 1984 · University of Tennessee, HSC, College of MedicineMaleOther offices in Chattanooga: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $317John E. Miller, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 93.4/100Graduated 1988 · University of Kentucky College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $161David Friedrich, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 92.8/100Graduated 1979 · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $126Pedro F. Monsalve Diaz, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 92.7/100Graduated 2009MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $160Edwin W. Gannon III, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 92.6/100Graduated 2017 · University of Tennessee, HSC, College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,452Gene K. Lee, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 92.6/100Graduated 2005 · Emory University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,068Michelle L. Robison, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 92.6/100Graduated 1991 · Emory University School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,770John Bonner, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 92.4/100Graduated 1995 · University of South Alabama College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $408Sophie Cai
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 90.6/100Graduated 2015 · Harvard Medical SchoolFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $106Francis C. Decroos, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 90.6/100Graduated 2006 · Duke University School of MedicineMaleDevon H. Ghodasra, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 90.6/100Graduated 2010 · Medical College of Georgia School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $106Asghar Haider, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 90.6/100Graduated 2015 · University of California, Irvine, California College of MedicineMaleRohan J. Shah, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 90.6/100Graduated 2008 · Vanderbilt University School of MedicineMaleWilliam M. Goodman, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 90.6/100Graduated 1982 · University of Tennessee, HSC, College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $841Karen B. Fitzgerald-Shelton, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 87.6/100Graduated 1991 · University of Michigan Medical SchoolFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,308Matthew L. Hartman, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 86.2/100Graduated 2015 · Loma Linda University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,288John Prenshaw, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 85.8/100Graduated 2013 · University of Tennessee, HSC, College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $577Jonathon M. Woolfson, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 85.8/100Graduated 1989 · Vanderbilt University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,139William C. Whitmire, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.3/100Graduated 2011 · Medical College of Georgia School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $246Thomas P. Lindquist, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 81.9/100Graduated 2009 · Rush Medical College of Rush UniversityMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $233Carey C. Dozier, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 78.9/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2007 · Duke University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $331James P. Richmond Jr., MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 78.9/100Graduated 1977 · University of Louisville School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $252John L. Stone, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 77.3/100Graduated 1987 · University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,083John R. Bierly, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 76.4/100Graduated 1986 · JS Weill Medical College, Cornell UniversityMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,006Randall L. Funderburk, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 76.4/100Graduated 1979 · University of Tennessee, HSC, College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $297Paul W. Mallory, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 76.4/100Graduated 2016 · Sanford School of Medicine of University of South DakotaMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $811Daryl L. McDaniel, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 76.4/100Graduated 1989 · Medical College of Georgia School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,041Edward A. Peterson, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 76.4/100Graduated 1998 · University of Utah School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $226Alex Rider, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 76.4/100Graduated 2015 · University of Tennessee, HSC, College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,095Rex A. Yannis, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 76.4/100Graduated 1983 · University of Texas Medical Branch at GalvestonMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $205Patrick J. Bowers Jr., MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 22.2/100Graduated 1996 · Medical College of Georgia School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $714Deborah Di Stefano, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 0/100Graduated 1976 · Medical College of WisconsinFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $631Charles A. Kirby, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 0/100Graduated 1977 · University of Tennessee, HSC, College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $417Robert E. Levy, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 0/100Graduated 2014 · University of South Alabama College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $670Michael F. Lett, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1979 · University of Tennessee, HSC, College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $154Elizabeth D. Mabry, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1992 · University of California, San Francisco School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $224Paula C. Nicola, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2002 · University of South Alabama College of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $53Barrett N. Thompson, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2019 · University of Tennessee, HSC, College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $732
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).