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Primary care doctors who accept Medicare in Big Stone Gap, VA
CMS lists 16 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Big Stone Gap. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 13. Offer telehealth: 4.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 24219 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $129, of which you pay about $32; a follow-up visit $99, of which you pay about $25 — 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.
John Brannum, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75.1/100Graduated 2015MaleNaguib Farah, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75.1/100Graduated 1987MaleChristopher M. George, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75.1/100Graduated 2020 · Alabama College of Osteopathic MedicineMaleStarla J. Kiser
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 36/100✓ TelehealthGraduated 2011 · Harvard Medical SchoolFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $93Vincent K. Cheek, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1983 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of MedicineMaleLaura Cox, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2003FemaleJoshua H. Dalton, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2004 · University of Pikeville, Kentucky College of Osteopathic MedMaleSamuel Deel
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2007MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $460Donald E. Dingus II, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1989 · University of Virginia School of MedicineMaleCharles M. Helton, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2014 · Lincoln Memorial University Medical DepartmentMaleShaine Powers, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2019MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $283Clinton H. Sutherland, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 1990 · JC Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall UniversityMaleOther offices in Big Stone Gap: 1Drug and device company payments (2025): $2,804Marissa G. Vito Cruz, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1994FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $39Hussain Alhamza, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2019MaleMatthew Byrnes, MD
May accept assignmentGraduated 2001MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $30Jill K. Couch, DO
May accept assignmentGraduated 2003FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,337
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).