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.
This Provider: At A Glance
We aren’t showing our typical comparisons because this provider had an address in a different state in 2015.
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 his Part B patients.
This Provider's Services
This provider performed 55 different services in 2015
(46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
254 times performed, 35% of his services |
1st
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in SD perform this service |
134 patients got this service, 65% of his patients |
1.9 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$27,035.76an average of $106.44 per time performed |
$13,169.90 an average of $51.85 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 |
191 times performed, 27% of his services |
2nd
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in SD perform this service |
106 patients got this service, 52% of his patients |
1.8 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$13,761.55an average of $72.05 per time performed |
$6,637.25 an average of $34.75 per time performed |
PROCEDURESAdministration of influenza virus vaccine Service Code: G0008Performed in an office |
32 times performed, 4% of his services |
3rd
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in SD perform this service |
30 patients got this service, 15% of his patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$808.64an average of $25.27 per time performed |
$792.32 an average of $24.76 per time performed |
MEDICINEVaccine for influenza for injection into muscle Service Code: 90662Performed in an office |
23 times performed, 3% of his services |
4th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in SD perform this service |
23 patients got this service, 11% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$835.36an average of $36.32 per time performed |
$818.57 an average of $35.59 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 an office |
23 times performed, 3% of his services |
5th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in SD perform this service |
19 patients got this service, 9% of his patients |
1.2 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$2,089.32an average of $90.84 per time performed |
$857.44 an average of $37.28 per time performed |
RADIOLOGYX-ray of chest, 2 views, front and side Service Code: 71020Performed in a facility |
20 times performed, 3% of his services |
6th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in SD perform this service |
18 patients got this service, 9% of his patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$218.00an average of $10.90 per time performed |
$162.60 an average of $8.13 per time performed |
PROCEDURESScreening mammography, producing direct digital image, bi... + Screening mammography, producing direct digital image, bilateral, all views × Service Code: G0202Performed in a facility |
15 times performed, 2% of his services |
7th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in SD perform this service |
15 patients got this service, 7% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$519.90an average of $34.66 per time performed |
$509.40 an average of $33.96 per time performed |
RADIOLOGYComputer analysis of screening mammogram to assist detect... + Computer analysis of screening mammogram to assist detection of cancer × Service Code: 77052Performed in a facility |
15 times performed, 2% of his services |
8th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in SD perform this service |
15 patients got this service, 7% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$45.15an average of $3.01 per time performed |
$44.25 an average of $2.95 per time performed |
MEDICINERoutine electrocardiogram (ekg) using at least 12 leads w... + Routine electrocardiogram (ekg) using at least 12 leads with interpretation and report × Service Code: 93010Performed in a facility |
14 times performed, 2% of his services |
9th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in SD perform this service |
14 patients got this service, 7% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$117.46an average of $8.39 per time performed |
$92.12 an average of $6.58 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 did not bill Medicare for any 5’s.
Scott John Dierks
Average for Family Medicine Providers in South Dakota
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.