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Pain management doctors who accept Medicare in Chattanooga, TN
CMS lists 11 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Chattanooga. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 11. Offer telehealth: 3.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 37404 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $122, of which you pay about $30; a follow-up visit $94, of which you pay about $23 — 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.
Nitin Chhabra, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 100/100Graduated 2004 · University of South Alabama College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $673Kendrick Thomas, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 100/100Graduated 2010MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $447Arion A. Smalley
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 96/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2011 · Louisville Medical CollegeMaleOther offices in Chattanooga: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $2,115Larry S. Richardson, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94.3/100Graduated 2003 · Medical College of WisconsinMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $29Sandra D. Kaplan, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 92.6/100Graduated 2004 · University of Tennessee, HSC, College of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Chattanooga: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,762Stephen V. Dreskin, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 84.4/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1990MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $328John E. Blake III, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75/100Graduated 2004MaleOther offices in Chattanooga: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $3,867Wyndham A. Bonett, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2019 · Florida State University College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,580Ankush K. Jain, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2010 · Philadelphia College of Osteopathic MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $3,864Sameh A. Ward, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1990MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $705Michael M. Wilkinson, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2008 · Yale University School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $3,482
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).