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Neurosurgeons who accept Medicare in El Paso, TX
CMS lists 18 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in El Paso. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 15. Offer telehealth: 1.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 79912 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $126, of which you pay about $32; a follow-up visit $69, 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.
Kristopher G. Hooten, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 100/100Graduated 2009MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,884Jaime Gasco-Tamarit, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 92/100Graduated 2001MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $42Harold Smith, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 92/100Graduated 1988 · University of Arkansas College of MedicineMaleOther offices in El Paso: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $2,418Luis F. Vasquez, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 92/100Graduated 1970MaleOther offices in El Paso: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $17Udaya K. Kakarla, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 81.6/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2003 · Indiana University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in El Paso: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $18George J. Martin Jr., MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 13.7/100Graduated 1991 · University of Florida College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $274Patrick Cotton, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2016 · University of Texas Medical School at HoustonMaleOther offices in El Paso: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $3,422John D. Day, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1989 · University of Washington School of MedicineMaleOther offices in El Paso: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $537Shane A. Hawksworth, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2011 · Boston University School of MedicineMaleOther offices in El Paso: 5Drug and device company payments (2025): $1,176James E. Lee, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2017 · University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at DallasMaleOther offices in El Paso: 3Drug and device company payments (2025): $4,135Akram Mahmoud, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1998MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $5,677Gustavo Rodriguez, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1996MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $3,393Abraham Sabersky, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2009 · University of Southern California Keck School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,075Bratislav Velimirovic, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1989MaleOther offices in El Paso: 5Drug and device company payments (2025): $332Chin Sing D. Wang, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2007 · University of Miami, LM Miller School of MedicineMaleOther offices in El Paso: 2Drug and device company payments (2025): $145Fadar O. Otite, MD
May accept assignmentMIPS score (2024): 94.1/100Graduated 2006MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $4,371Carlos De La Garza, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2013MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,622Jose E. Marin Sanchez, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2019MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $893
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).