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Pain management doctors who accept Medicare in Corpus Christi, TX
CMS lists 9 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Corpus Christi. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 8. Offer telehealth: 4.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 78411 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $126, of which you pay about $32; a follow-up visit $97, 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.
Ricardo J. Taboada, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.2/100Graduated 2006 · University Central del Caribe Escuela de MedicinaMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,421Michael E. Tschickardt, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 82.2/100Graduated 1998 · University of South Florida College of MedicineMaleOther offices in Corpus Christi: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $2,501Li-Herng Liu, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2007 · Wake Forest University School of MedicineFemaleOther offices in Corpus Christi: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $3,291Gabriel Lopez, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75/100Graduated 2000 · University of Texas Medical School at HoustonMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $4,038Raheel Bengali, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2010 · University of Miami, LM Miller School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,773Lance M. Hoover, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1992 · University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at DallasMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $43Janki Patel, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2019 · University of Texas Medical Branch at GalvestonFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $144Jose D. Trevino, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1976 · Michigan State University College of Human MedicineMaleOther offices in Corpus Christi: 2Wilson L. Velazquez, MD
May accept assignmentMIPS score (2024): 100/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 1988MaleOther offices in Corpus Christi: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,222
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).