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General surgeons who accept Medicare in Puyallup, WA
CMS lists 16 clinicians in this specialty with a practice address in Puyallup. Accept Medicare assignment (the Medicare-approved amount as full payment): 16. Offer telehealth: 4.
Typical amounts Medicare approves in ZIP 98372 (2024 Medicare rates, the latest CMS has published): a new-patient visit $88, of which you pay about $22; a follow-up visit $71, of which you pay about $18 — 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.
Sarah Brant, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 95.9/100Graduated 2009FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $495Daniel S. Diamond, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentMIPS score (2024): 75/100Graduated 1999 · University of Tennessee, HSC, College of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $9,257Elaine Jayne Buckley, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2013FemaleMiles Dale, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2017 · New York Medical CollegeMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $2,020James Grijalva, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2010MaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $7Cholwoo A. Kim, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1993 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $149Steven D. Macfarlane, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1981 · University of Washington School of MedicineMaleWhitney W. Mattes, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2017 · University of Washington School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $19Yarrow McConnell, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2005FemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $24Brian R. Nelson, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1981 · Saint Louis University School of MedicineMalePoya Pourghaderi, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2018 · Kansas City University of Med & Biosciences, College of Osteo MedMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $1,626Kelly R. Puster, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1992 · University of Iowa, RJ & L Carver College of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $8,334Holly M. Rochefort, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2010 · University of California, Geffen School of MedicineFemaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $502Thomas A. Schleichert, DO
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 2014 · Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, ErieMaleRobert C. Wright, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignmentGraduated 1985 · University of Washington School of MedicineMaleDrug and device company payments (2025): $77Nicole K. Zern, MD
✓ Accepts Medicare assignment✓ TelehealthGraduated 2010 · Emory University School of MedicineFemale
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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).