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, $175 per patient in 2015.
They performed about 4 services per patient. Here’s how this provider compares.

Number of
Patients
356
Rank: 96th
out of 461 providers in this state & specialty
Services
Performed
1,846
Rank: 61st
out of 461 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Services
Per Patient
5.2 This Provider
Avg 3.8
Total Paid
by Medicare
$63K
Rank: 120th
out of 461 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Paid
Per Patient
$177 This Provider
Avg $175

Note: About 23% of this provider’s Medicare payments were for drugs administered in her office.
This is intended to reimburse the provider for purchasing the drugs, plus an additional percentage for overhead.

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 Patients
Expected to have lower spending
Expected to have higher spending

This Provider's Services

This provider performed 76 different services in 2015
(54 were redacted as they were performed on less than 11 patients)

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Drug Services
Medical Services
CATEGORY
Description of Service
Times Performed (or Units) This Service's Rank Patients Unique Visits
Per Patient
Billed to Medicare Payments from Medicare
medical
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT

Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typ... +

Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes ×

Service Code: 99214
Performed in an office
277
times performed,
15% of her services

1st 1st

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

191
patients got this service, 54% of her patients
1.5
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 2)
$66,480.00an average of $240.00 per time performed $17,523.02
an average of $63.26 per time performed
medical
CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM

Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample +

Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample ×

Service Code: 36415
Performed in an office
261
times performed,
14% of her services

2nd 5th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

181
patients got this service, 51% of her patients
1.4
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.9)
$1,827.00an average of $7.00 per time performed $764.73
an average of $2.93 per time performed
medical
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT

Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typ... +

Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes ×

Service Code: 99213
Performed in an office
135
times performed,
7% of her services

3rd 3rd

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

103
patients got this service, 29% of her patients
1.3
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.7)
$22,005.00an average of $163.00 per time performed $5,454.00
an average of $40.40 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Blood test, comprehensive group of blood chemicals

Service Code: 80053
Performed in an office
120
times performed,
7% of her services

4th 20th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

114
patients got this service, 32% of her patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.2)
$3,960.00an average of $33.00 per time performed $1,336.80
an average of $11.14 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Hemoglobin a1c level

Service Code: 83036
Performed in an office
111
times performed,
6% of her services

5th 12th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

88
patients got this service, 25% of her patients
1.3
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.8)
$3,441.00an average of $31.00 per time performed $1,427.46
an average of $12.86 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Blood test, lipids (cholesterol and triglycerides)

Service Code: 80061
Performed in an office
96
times performed,
5% of her services

6th 13th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

88
patients got this service, 25% of her patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.4)
$5,376.00an average of $56.00 per time performed $1,499.52
an average of $15.62 per time performed
medical
PROCEDURES

Administration of pneumococcal vaccine

Service Code: G0009
Performed in an office
88
times performed,
5% of her services

7th 8th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

88
patients got this service, 25% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$5,016.00an average of $57.00 per time performed $2,280.08
an average of $25.91 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Blood test, thyroid stimulating hormone (tsh)

Service Code: 84443
Performed in an office
79
times performed,
4% of her services

8th 26th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

66
patients got this service, 19% of her patients
1.2
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.2)
$4,187.00an average of $53.00 per time performed $1,752.22
an average of $22.18 per time performed
drug
MEDICINE

Pneumococcal vaccine for injection into muscle

Service Code: 90670
Performed in an office
77
times performed,
4% of her services

9th 9th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

77
patients got this service, 22% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$21,329.00an average of $277.00 per time performed $12,915.98
an average of $167.74 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Blood test, clotting time

Service Code: 85610
Performed in an office
63
times performed,
3% of her services

10th 6th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

19
patients got this service, 5% of her patients
3.3
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 4.7)
$756.00an average of $12.00 per time performed $330.12
an average of $5.24 per time performed
medical
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT

Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typ... +

Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes ×

Service Code: 99215
Performed in an office
47
times performed,
3% of her services

11th 21st

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

44
patients got this service, 12% of her patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.3)
$15,087.00an average of $321.00 per time performed $4,197.10
an average of $89.30 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Urine microalbumin (protein) analysis

Service Code: 82044
Performed in an office
42
times performed,
2% of her services

12th 36th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

40
patients got this service, 11% of her patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.2)
$588.00an average of $14.00 per time performed $251.16
an average of $5.98 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Blood test, basic group of blood chemicals

Service Code: 80048
Performed in an office
37
times performed,
2% of her services

13th 22nd

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

34
patients got this service, 10% of her patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.3)
$999.00an average of $27.00 per time performed $382.58
an average of $10.34 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Complete blood cell count (red cells, white blood cell, p... +

Complete blood cell count (red cells, white blood cell, platelets), automated test ×

Service Code: 85025
Performed in an office
34
times performed,
2% of her services

14th 24th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

27
patients got this service, 8% of her patients
1.3
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.3)
$850.00an average of $25.00 per time performed $352.58
an average of $10.37 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Complete blood cell count (red cells, white blood cell, p... +

Complete blood cell count (red cells, white blood cell, platelets), automated test ×

Service Code: 85027
Performed in an office
31
times performed,
2% of her services

15th 55th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

30
patients got this service, 8% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.2)
$620.00an average of $20.00 per time performed $267.53
an average of $8.63 per time performed
medical
PROCEDURES

Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention... +

Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit ×

Service Code: G0439
Performed in an office
28
times performed,
2% of her services

16th 10th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

28
patients got this service, 8% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$7,112.00an average of $254.00 per time performed $3,301.20
an average of $117.90 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Automated urinalysis test

Service Code: 81003
Performed in an office
26
times performed,
1% of her services

17th 30th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

23
patients got this service, 6% of her patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.3)
$182.00an average of $7.00 per time performed $61.88
an average of $2.38 per time performed
medical
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT

Subsequent nursing facility visit, typically 15 minutes p... +

Subsequent nursing facility visit, typically 15 minutes per day ×

Service Code: 99308
Performed in an office
25
times performed,
1% of her services

18th 23rd

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

19
patients got this service, 5% of her patients
1.3
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 2.6)
$3,825.00an average of $153.00 per time performed $1,383.00
an average of $55.32 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Thyroxine (thyroid chemical) measurement

Service Code: 84439
Performed in an office
20
times performed,
1% of her services

19th 86th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

17
patients got this service, 5% of her patients
1.2
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.2)
$560.00an average of $28.00 per time performed $240.40
an average of $12.02 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Kidney function blood test panel

Service Code: 80069
Performed in an office
20
times performed,
1% of her services

20th 138th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

15
patients got this service, 4% of her patients
1.3
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.5)
$540.00an average of $27.00 per time performed $227.80
an average of $11.39 per time performed
drug
MEDICINE

Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection ben... +

Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older ×

Service Code: 90732
Performed in an office
15
times performed,
0.81% of her services

21st 78th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

15
patients got this service, 4% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$2,100.00an average of $140.00 per time performed $1,149.00
an average of $76.60 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretat... +

Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report ×

Service Code: 93000
Performed in an office
12
times performed,
0.65% of her services

22nd 16th

most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty

12
patients got this service, 3% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.1)
$624.00an average of $52.00 per time performed $166.32
an average of $13.86 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.

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This provider charged Medicare for a higher percentage of 5’s than her peers.

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Kristin Vaughan
Average for Family Medicine Providers in New Hampshire

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.

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