Limestone Medical Center
Part of South Limestone Hospital Districtsee all 6 affiliated facilities
Emergency & urgent care
How this emergency department performs on the measures that matter most when you need care fast.
From CMS Timely & Effective Care reporting.
Quality measures
Mortality
Same as National AverageMeasures the rate at which patients die within 30 days of hospital admission for specific conditions. A lower mortality rate indicates better outcomes.
Safety of Care
Tracks hospital-acquired infections, surgical complications, and other patient safety indicators. Lower rates indicate better safety practices.
Readmissions
Measures how often patients return to the hospital within 30 days of discharge. Lower readmission rates suggest effective treatment and discharge planning.
Patient Experience
Based on the HCAHPS survey — patient satisfaction with communication, cleanliness, pain management, and discharge information.
Patient survey detail — the questions feeding the Patient Experience domain above expand ↓
CMS computes the Patient Experience domain from the federal HCAHPS survey. Each bar below is one survey question; the percentage is the share of Limestone's recent patients who gave the most positive response. HCAHPS percentages aren't directly comparable across all measures — see the methodology page for how CMS weights them.
- Communication with Nurses 86%
- Communication with Doctors 84%
- Hospital Cleanliness 98%
- Hospital Quietness 82%
- Staff Responsiveness N/A
- Discharge Information 87%
- Overall Hospital Rating (9 or 10) 77%
- Would Recommend Hospital 70%
Percentages represent patients who gave the most positive response. Survey conducted by CMS through the HCAHPS program.
Timely & Effective Care
Better than National AverageMeasures how quickly the hospital provides important treatments such as antibiotics for pneumonia or interventions for heart attacks.
Clinical Staff
Limestone Medical Center has 117 CMS-affiliated clinicians on its roster — physicians, advanced practice providers, and other Medicare-enrolled professionals who list this hospital as an affiliated facility.
Top specialties
- Family Practice 19
- Nurse Practitioner 18
- Diagnostic Radiology 13
- Internal Medicine 10
- Physician Assistant 6
- Emergency Medicine 5
- Nephrology 5
- Interventional Cardiology 5
Self-reported primary specialty in the CMS Doctors & Clinicians dataset. Many clinicians serve multiple facilities.
Practice characteristics
- Accept Medicare assignment
- 116 (99%)
- Offer telehealth
- 18 (15%)
Bill Medicare directly at the approved rate — patients only owe co-insurance/deductible.
Indicated by the clinician in their CMS profile as routinely providing virtual visits.
Medicare quality scoring (MIPS)
44 of these clinicians have a published Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) final score. Of those, 17 (39%) score above the national median of 85.5.
MIPS scoring is heavily compressed at the top of the 0–100 range, so individual scores are not a reliable consumer signal. We surface roster-level coverage and the share above the national median instead.
Source: CMS Doctors and Clinicians (Care Compare) national downloadable file and MIPS Performance Year final scores, as of 2026-07-18. Affiliations from the CMS Facility Affiliations dataset. About 16% of small facilities (critical access, rural emergency, freestanding psych, IRF/LTCH) do not appear in the affiliations file and therefore have no panel.
Find a Doctor
Search the 117 clinicians affiliated with Limestone Medical Center. Each name links to that clinician's official Medicare Care Compare profile, where you can see their credentials, secondary specialties, group affiliations, and (when applicable) MIPS quality scores.
- Taurus R. Allen, MD Open PaymentsFamily Practice✓ Medicare
- Timothy D. Allen, DO Open PaymentsInternal Medicine✓ Medicare
- Gastroenterology✓ Medicare
- Interventional Cardiology✓ Medicare
- Physician Assistant✓ Medicare
- Cardiac Electrophysiology✓ Medicare
- Interventional Cardiology✓ Medicare
- Dileep C. Bhateley, MD Open PaymentsFamily Practice✓ Medicare
- Luke Biarnesen, NP Open PaymentsNurse Practitioner✓ Medicare
- John C. Biboa, DO Open PaymentsEmergency Medicine✓ Medicare
- Orthopedic Surgery✓ Medicare
- Diagnostic Radiology✓ Medicare
- Alyson J. Brzezinski, NP Open PaymentsNurse Practitioner✓ Medicare
- Internal Medicine✓ Medicare
- Carl G. Chakmakjian, MD Open PaymentsMedical Oncology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Family Practice✓ Medicare
- Cardiac Electrophysiology✓ Medicare
- Sara Chiglo, NP Open PaymentsNurse Practitioner✓ Medicare
- Emergency Medicine✓ Medicare
- Nurse Practitioner✓ Medicare
- General Practice✓ Medicare
- Jordan F. Cooke, PA Open PaymentsPhysician Assistant✓ Medicare
- Cardiovascular Disease (cardiology)✓ Medicare
- Sabrina L. Cruz, NP Open PaymentsNurse Practitioner✓ Medicare
- William Dobie, MD Open PaymentsDiagnostic Radiology✓ Medicare
- Emergency Medicine✓ Medicare
- Carlos A. Encarnacion, MD Open PaymentsMedical Oncology📡 Telehealth ✓ Medicare
- Family Practice✓ Medicare
- Emergency Medicine✓ Medicare
- Michelle R. Felan Palmer, NP Open PaymentsNurse Practitioner✓ Medicare
No clinicians match that search. Try a broader term like "internal medicine" or just a last name.
Roster from CMS Doctors and Clinicians (Care Compare), updated 2026-07-18. A clinician may also practice at other facilities; "affiliated" means this hospital is on their CMS profile, not that they exclusively work here. Procedure volumes are Medicare fee-for-service counts from the CMS clinician utilization file (all practice locations, not just this hospital). Industry payment totals are from CMS Open Payments, program year 2024, and include meals, travel, consulting, and speaking fees; payments are legal and common — we show them for transparency, not as a quality judgment.
Pricing & Costs
Facility Information
- Licensed beds
- 20
- Facility type
- Critical Access Hospitals
- Ownership
- Government - Hospital District or Authority
- Emergency services
- Yes — 24/7
Ownership & Finances
- Ownership
- Government (Hospital district)
- Charity care spend (FY2023)
- $1.5M
- List prices vs. actual cost
- ≈ 2.6× actual cost
From the hospital's FY2023 Medicare cost report (HCRIS).
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How Limestone Medical Center compares nearby
Compared with the 5 other acute-care hospitals within 50 miles — 6 facilities in all, CMS data only.
Among the 6 acute-care hospitals within 50 miles, CMS rates Limestone Medical Center's mortality about the same as the national average; the median among the 5 peers reporting it is about the same as the national average.
| Measure | This facility | Nearby median |
|---|---|---|
| Overall star rating reported by 3 of 5 nearby peers | Not available | 2★ |
| Patient experience (HCAHPS) star reported by 3 of 5 nearby peers | Not available | 3★ |
| Mortality reported by 5 of 5 nearby peers | Same as National Average | Same as National Average |
| Safety of Care reported by 5 of 5 nearby peers | Not available | Same as National Average |
| Readmissions reported by 5 of 5 nearby peers | Not available | Same as National Average |
The comparison group
- Parkview Regional Hospital
- Freestone Medical Center
- Navarro Regional Hospital
- Ascension Providence Hospital
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Hillcrest
Cohort: within 50 miles · CMS data period 2026-06 · method cohort-v1 · comparisons are never affected by claiming or payment. How nearby comparisons work
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About this data
Quality and ratings data are sourced from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare program. Star ratings are CMS's own calculation; CareRanks does not modify or re-weight them. Facility-level details (address, beds, ownership, teaching status) come from CMS provider files and the CMS Provider of Services file.
Pricing data, where shown, is drawn from the hospital's own Machine-Readable File (MRF) published under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. See our methodology for the full update cadence and limitations.