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.
How This Provider Compares
This Provider
Avg in State & Specialty
Providers in this state and specialty were reimbursed, on average, $747 per patient in 2015.
They performed about 4 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 his Part B patients.
This Provider's Services
This provider performed 128 different services in 2015
(119 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 |
326 times performed, 26% of his services |
1st 22nd most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
118 patients got this service, 32% of his patients |
2.8 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 2.2) |
$79,218.00an average of $243.00 per time performed |
$20,639.06 an average of $63.31 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 |
267 times performed, 22% of his services |
2nd
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in MD perform this service |
196 patients got this service, 53% of his patients |
1.4 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$91,314.00an average of $342.00 per time performed |
$23,359.83 an average of $87.49 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTInitial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per... + Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day × Service Code: 99223Performed in a facility |
86 times performed, 7% of his services |
3rd 52nd most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
84 patients got this service, 23% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1) |
$54,008.00an average of $628.00 per time performed |
$14,446.28 an average of $167.98 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTNew patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 6... + New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes × Service Code: 99205Performed in a facility |
68 times performed, 6% of his services |
4th 81st most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
68 patients got this service, 19% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1) |
$35,564.00an average of $523.00 per time performed |
$9,250.72 an average of $136.04 per time performed |
RADIOLOGYRadiological supervision and interpretation of imaging of... + Radiological supervision and interpretation of imaging of artery of one arm or leg × Service Code: 75710Performed in a facility |
49 times performed, 4% of his services |
5th 31st most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
39 patients got this service, 11% of his patients |
1.3 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.2) |
$9,288.93an average of $189.57 per time performed |
$2,216.27 an average of $45.23 per time performed |
RADIOLOGYRadiological supervision and interpretation x-ray of abdo... + Radiological supervision and interpretation x-ray of abdominal aorta × Service Code: 75625Performed in a facility |
43 times performed, 3% of his services |
6th 30th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
38 patients got this service, 10% of his patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.1) |
$7,675.50an average of $178.50 per time performed |
$2,060.13 an average of $47.91 per time performed |
CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMInsertion of catheter into abdominal pelvic or leg artery + Insertion of catheter into abdominal pelvic or leg artery × Service Code: 36247Performed in a facility |
18 times performed, 1% of his services |
7th 91st most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
17 patients got this service, 5% of his patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.1) |
$18,666.00an average of $1,037.00 per time performed |
$4,736.88 an average of $263.16 per time performed |
CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMBalloon dilation of arteries in one leg, endovascular, ac... + Balloon dilation of arteries in one leg, endovascular, accessed through the skin or open procedure × Service Code: 37224Performed in a facility |
15 times performed, 1% of his services |
8th 67th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
14 patients got this service, 4% of his patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.1) |
$22,455.00an average of $1,497.00 per time performed |
$4,606.95 an average of $307.13 per time performed |
CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMBalloon dilation of artery of one leg, endovascular, acce... + Balloon dilation of artery of one leg, endovascular, accessed through the skin or open procedure × Service Code: 37228Performed in a facility |
13 times performed, 1% of his services |
9th 79th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
11 patients got this service, 3% of his patients |
1.2 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.2) |
$23,764.00an average of $1,828.00 per time performed |
$6,136.65 an average of $472.05 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 his peers.
Christopher Joseph Abularrage
Average for Vascular Surgery Providers in Maryland
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.