Treatment Tracker
The Doctors and Services in Medicare Part B
This database was last updated in December 2017. It should only be used as a historical snapshot. More recent data is available via the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ lookup tool.
YOLANDA HELFRICH MD
ANN ARBOR, MI, 48109
How This Provider Compares
This Provider
Avg in State & Specialty
Providers in this state and specialty were reimbursed, on average, $236 per patient in 2015.
They performed about 5 services per patient. Here’s how this provider compares.
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How This Provider’s Patients Compare
Doctors often say their patients are sicker or more complex than those of their peers. The measure displayed below, used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, takes into account patients’ characteristics to estimate whether they are expected to have above-average Medicare spending. It considers patients’ age, sex, diagnoses from the past year and other factors. This provider’s score below takes into account all of her Part B patients.
This Provider's Services
This provider performed 39 different services in 2015
(23 were redacted as they were performed on less than 11 patients)
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CATEGORYDescription of Service |
Times Performed (or Units) | This Service's Rank | Patients | Unique Visits Per Patient |
Billed to Medicare | Payments from Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SKIN, HAIR AND NAILSDestruction of 2-14 skin growths Service Code: 17003Performed in a facility |
1,381 times performed, 43% of her services |
1st 10th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
235 patients got this service, 33% of her patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.2) |
$52,478.00an average of $38.00 per time performed |
$2,623.90 an average of $1.90 per time performed |
SKIN, HAIR AND NAILSService Code: 17000Performed in a facility |
311 times performed, 10% of her services |
2nd 22nd most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
293 patients got this service, 41% of her patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.2) |
$37,631.00an average of $121.00 per time performed |
$9,600.57 an average of $30.87 per time performed |
SKIN, HAIR AND NAILSBiopsy of single growth of skin and/or tissue Service Code: 11100Performed in a facility |
309 times performed, 10% of her services |
3rd 25th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
295 patients got this service, 41% of her patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.1) |
$36,153.00an average of $117.00 per time performed |
$7,864.05 an average of $25.45 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTEstablished patient office or other outpatient visit, typ... + Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes × Service Code: 99213Performed in a facility |
215 times performed, 7% of her services |
4th 20th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
204 patients got this service, 28% of her patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.2) |
$12,255.00an average of $57.00 per time performed |
$8,131.30 an average of $37.82 per time performed |
SKIN, HAIR AND NAILSBiopsy of each additional growth of skin and/or tissue Service Code: 11101Performed in a facility |
192 times performed, 6% of her services |
5th 41st most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
128 patients got this service, 18% of her patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.1) |
$15,936.00an average of $83.00 per time performed |
$3,709.44 an average of $19.32 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTNew patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 3... + New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes × Service Code: 99203Performed in a facility |
176 times performed, 5% of her services |
6th 36th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
176 patients got this service, 24% of her patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1) |
$19,852.80an average of $112.80 per time performed |
$9,783.84 an average of $55.59 per time performed |
SKIN, HAIR AND NAILSDestruction of up to 14 skin growths Service Code: 17110Performed in a facility |
138 times performed, 4% of her services |
7th 40th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
136 patients got this service, 19% of her patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.1) |
$20,700.00an average of $150.00 per time performed |
$6,012.66 an average of $43.57 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTEstablished patient office or other outpatient, visit typ... + Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes × Service Code: 99214Performed in a facility |
127 times performed, 4% of her services |
8th 26th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
121 patients got this service, 17% of her patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.1) |
$11,234.42an average of $88.46 per time performed |
$7,307.58 an average of $57.54 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTEstablished patient office or other outpatient, visit typ... + Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes × Service Code: 99215Performed in a facility |
114 times performed, 4% of her services |
9th 71st most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
105 patients got this service, 15% of her patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.1) |
$17,244.78an average of $151.27 per time performed |
$9,806.28 an average of $86.02 per time performed |
SKIN, HAIR AND NAILSDestruction of 15 or more skin growths Service Code: 17004Performed in a facility |
57 times performed, 2% of her services |
10th 67th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
52 patients got this service, 7% of her patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.2) |
$29,127.00an average of $511.00 per time performed |
$4,170.69 an average of $73.17 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTNew patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 2... + New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 20 minutes × Service Code: 99202Performed in a facility |
43 times performed, 1% of her services |
11th 43rd most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
43 patients got this service, 6% of her patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1) |
$2,976.03an average of $69.21 per time performed |
$1,487.80 an average of $34.60 per time performed |
SKIN, HAIR AND NAILSDestruction of malignant growth (1.1 to 2.0 centimeters) ... + Destruction of malignant growth (1.1 to 2.0 centimeters) of trunk, arms, or legs × Service Code: 17262Performed in a facility |
30 times performed, 0.93% of her services |
12th 87th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
28 patients got this service, 4% of her patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1) |
$7,650.00an average of $255.00 per time performed |
$2,321.10 an average of $77.37 per time performed |
SKIN, HAIR AND NAILSRemoval of up to and including 15 skin tags Service Code: 11200Performed in a facility |
16 times performed, 0.5% of her services |
13th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in MI perform this service |
15 patients got this service, 2% of her patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$2,528.00an average of $158.00 per time performed |
$793.12 an average of $49.57 per time performed |
SKIN, HAIR AND NAILSInjection of up to 7 skin growths Service Code: 11900Performed in a facility |
16 times performed, 0.5% of her services |
14th 123rd most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
14 patients got this service, 2% of her patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.2) |
$1,328.00an average of $83.00 per time performed |
$229.44 an average of $14.34 per time performed |
AUDITORY SYSTEMService Code: 69100Performed in a facility |
15 times performed, 0.46% of her services |
15th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in MI perform this service |
14 patients got this service, 2% of her patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$2,040.00an average of $136.00 per time performed |
$351.45 an average of $23.43 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTNew patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 3... + New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes × Service Code: 99203Performed in an office |
11 times performed, 0.34% of her services |
16th 12th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
11 patients got this service, 2% of her patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1) |
$2,334.97an average of $212.27 per time performed |
$413.82 an average of $37.62 per time performed |
Office Visits
Medicare reimburses office visits using a five-point scale, with five being the most intensive and costly. The chart below shows what percentage of this provider’s office visits were reimbursed at each level. A higher than average proportion of costly visits is not necessarily an indication of a problem, but it may be worth asking about.
This provider charged Medicare for a higher percentage of 5’s than her peers.
Yolanda R Helfrich
Average for Dermatology Providers in Michigan
Notes: Medicare redacted this data for any services provided to fewer than 11 patients. The contact information listed above is the most current we have for this provider. The services listed on this page may have been delivered at a previous address or as part of a different practice.
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Sources: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, National Plan and Provider Enumeration System, American Medical Association
Services that begin with a letter come from CMS. All other codes and descriptions of the medical procedures are from the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set, copyright 2015 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. Where practical, AMA’s consumer friendly translation of the CPT descriptor was used. ProPublica has received permission from the AMA to use these codes on this site.