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, $268 per patient in 2015.
They performed about 4 services per patient. Here’s how this provider compares.

Number of
Patients
237
Rank: 67th
out of 131 providers in this state & specialty
Services
Performed
1,201
Rank: 51st
out of 131 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Services
Per Patient
5.1 This Provider
Avg 4.3
Total Paid
by Medicare
$75.1K
Rank: 57th
out of 131 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Paid
Per Patient
$317 This Provider
Avg $268

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 Patients
Expected to have lower spending
Expected to have higher spending

This Provider's Services

This provider performed 16 different services in 2015
(7 were redacted as they were performed on less than 11 patients)

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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

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

Subsequent nursing facility visit, typically 15 minutes per day ×

Service Code: 99308
Performed in an office
608
times performed,
51% of his services

1st 7th

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

115
patients got this service, 49% of his patients
5.3
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 3)
$63,840.00an average of $105.00 per time performed $30,418.24
an average of $50.03 per time performed
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 a facility
186
times performed,
15% of his services

2nd 14th

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

80
patients got this service, 34% of his patients
2.3
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.9)
$26,040.00an average of $140.00 per time performed $10,650.36
an average of $57.26 per time performed
medical
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT

Subsequent nursing facility visit, typically 25 minutes p... +

Subsequent nursing facility visit, typically 25 minutes per day ×

Service Code: 99309
Performed in an office
176
times performed,
15% of his services

3rd 8th

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

75
patients got this service, 32% of his patients
2.3
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 2.9)
$32,384.00an average of $184.00 per time performed $12,781.12
an average of $72.62 per time performed
medical
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT

Initial nursing facility visit, typically 45 minutes per day +

Initial nursing facility visit, typically 45 minutes per day ×

Service Code: 99306
Performed in an office
104
times performed,
9% of his services

4th 42nd

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

71
patients got this service, 30% of his patients
1.5
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.1)
$49,608.00an average of $477.00 per time performed $14,127.36
an average of $135.84 per time performed
medical
PROCEDURES

Physician certification for medicare-covered home health ... +

Physician certification for medicare-covered home health services under a home health plan of care (patient not present), including contacts with home health agency and review of reports of patient status required by physicians to affirm the initial imple ×

Service Code: G0180
Performed in an office
32
times performed,
3% of his services

5th 27th

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

32
patients got this service, 14% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.2)
$5,376.00an average of $168.00 per time performed $1,400.00
an average of $43.75 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 a facility
31
times performed,
3% of his services

6th 41st

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

20
patients got this service, 8% of his patients
1.6
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 2.1)
$6,820.00an average of $220.00 per time performed $2,692.35
an average of $86.85 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 a facility
15
times performed,
1% of his services

7th 32nd

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

12
patients got this service, 5% of his patients
1.3
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.6)
$1,395.00an average of $93.00 per time performed $383.10
an average of $25.54 per time performed
medical
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT

New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 6... +

New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes ×

Service Code: 99205
Performed in a facility
13
times performed,
1% of his services

8th 83rd

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

13
patients got this service, 5% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$4,615.00an average of $355.00 per time performed $1,687.53
an average of $129.81 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Routine electrocardiogram (ekg) using at least 12 leads w... +

Routine electrocardiogram (ekg) using at least 12 leads with interpretation and report ×

Service Code: 93010
Performed in a facility
11
times performed,
0.92% of his services

9th Alert

most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in PA perform this service

11
patients got this service, 5% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
$330.00an average of $30.00 per time performed $77.77
an average of $7.07 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 about the same percentage of 5’s as his peers

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Charles L Spencer
Average for Geriatric Medicine Providers in Pennsylvania

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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