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, $359 per patient in 2015.
They performed about 9 services per patient. Here’s how this provider compares.

Number of
Patients
439
Rank: 96th
out of 160 providers in this state & specialty
Services
Performed
2,306
Rank: 103rd
out of 160 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Services
Per Patient
5.3 This Provider
Avg 9.5
Total Paid
by Medicare
$150K
Rank: 97th
out of 160 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Paid
Per Patient
$341 This Provider
Avg $359

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
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This Provider's Services

This provider performed 80 different services in 2015
(61 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
567
times performed,
25% of his services

1st 4th

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

334
patients got this service, 76% of his patients
1.7
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.6)
$113,400.00an average of $200.00 per time performed $43,772.40
an average of $77.20 per time performed
medical
RADIOLOGY

Ultrasound behind abdominal cavity, limited

Service Code: 76775
Performed in an office
185
times performed,
8% of his services

2nd 57th

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

140
patients got this service, 32% of his patients
1.3
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.2)
$40,700.00an average of $220.00 per time performed $7,644.20
an average of $41.32 per time performed
medical
URINARY SYSTEM

Electronic assessment of bladder emptying

Service Code: 51741
Performed in an office
105
times performed,
5% of his services

3rd 13th

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

88
patients got this service, 20% of his patients
1.2
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.2)
$17,220.00an average of $164.00 per time performed $1,031.10
an average of $9.82 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Bacterial colony count, urine

Service Code: 87086
Performed in an office
96
times performed,
4% of his services

4th 20th

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

87
patients got this service, 20% of his patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 2.1)
$2,397.12an average of $24.97 per time performed $1,033.92
an average of $10.77 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Urinalysis, manual test

Service Code: 81002
Performed in an office
94
times performed,
4% of his services

5th 5th

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

86
patients got this service, 20% of his patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.8)
$937.18an average of $9.97 per time performed $320.54
an average of $3.41 per time performed
medical
URINARY SYSTEM

Diagnostic examination of the bladder and bladder canal (... +

Diagnostic examination of the bladder and bladder canal (urethra) using an endoscope ×

Service Code: 52000
Performed in an office
87
times performed,
4% of his services

6th 9th

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

70
patients got this service, 16% of his patients
1.2
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.2)
$36,279.00an average of $417.00 per time performed $13,784.28
an average of $158.44 per time performed
medical
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT

New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 4... +

New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes ×

Service Code: 99204
Performed in an office
74
times performed,
3% of his services

7th 12th

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

74
patients got this service, 17% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$23,162.00an average of $313.00 per time performed $9,100.52
an average of $122.98 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Special stained specimen slides to examine tissue includi... +

Special stained specimen slides to examine tissue including interpretation and report ×

Service Code: 88313
Performed in an office
59
times performed,
3% of his services

8th 50th

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

51
patients got this service, 12% of his patients
1.2
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.3)
$7,095.93an average of $120.27 per time performed $2,185.95
an average of $37.05 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Cell examination of specimen

Service Code: 88112
Performed in an office
57
times performed,
2% of his services

9th 40th

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

50
patients got this service, 11% of his patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.3)
$4,721.88an average of $82.84 per time performed $1,401.63
an average of $24.59 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Bacterial urine culture

Service Code: 87088
Performed in an office
42
times performed,
2% of his services

10th 27th

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

35
patients got this service, 8% of his patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 2.4)
$1,047.90an average of $24.95 per time performed $453.60
an average of $10.80 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
38
times performed,
2% of his services

11th 3rd

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

37
patients got this service, 8% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.5)
$5,307.84an average of $139.68 per time performed $1,996.14
an average of $52.53 per time performed
medical
RADIOLOGY

Imaging of urinary tract

Service Code: 74420
Performed in a facility
20
times performed,
0.87% of his services

12th 56th

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

12
patients got this service, 3% of his patients
1.7
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.2)
$3,000.00an average of $150.00 per time performed $285.40
an average of $14.27 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Bacterial culture for aerobic isolates

Service Code: 87077
Performed in an office
18
times performed,
0.78% of his services

13th 60th

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

17
patients got this service, 4% of his patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.4)
$450.00an average of $25.00 per time performed $194.04
an average of $10.78 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Evaluation of antimicrobial drug (antibiotic, antifungal,... +

Evaluation of antimicrobial drug (antibiotic, antifungal, antiviral) ×

Service Code: 87186
Performed in an office
18
times performed,
0.78% of his services

14th 71st

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

17
patients got this service, 4% of his patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.3)
$450.00an average of $25.00 per time performed $207.54
an average of $11.53 per time performed
medical
RADIOLOGY

Ultrasound of rectum

Service Code: 76872
Performed in an office
15
times performed,
0.65% of his services

15th 24th

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

15
patients got this service, 3% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.1)
$3,900.00an average of $260.00 per time performed $1,110.30
an average of $74.02 per time performed
medical
RADIOLOGY

Ultrasonic guidance imaging supervision and interpretatio... +

Ultrasonic guidance imaging supervision and interpretation for insertion of needle ×

Service Code: 76942
Performed in an office
14
times performed,
0.61% of his services

16th 29th

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

14
patients got this service, 3% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.1)
$5,460.00an average of $390.00 per time performed $665.98
an average of $47.57 per time performed
medical
MALE GENITAL SYSTEM

Biopsy of prostate gland

Service Code: 55700
Performed in an office
14
times performed,
0.61% of his services

17th 35th

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

14
patients got this service, 3% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$6,440.00an average of $460.00 per time performed $2,415.56
an average of $172.54 per time performed
medical
URINARY SYSTEM

Destruction of (less than 0.5 centimeters) growths of the... +

Destruction of (less than 0.5 centimeters) growths of the bladder and bladder canal (urethra) using an endoscope ×

Service Code: 52224
Performed in a facility
13
times performed,
0.56% of his services

18th 116th

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

12
patients got this service, 3% of his patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.1)
$21,255.00an average of $1,635.00 per time performed $1,942.59
an average of $149.43 per time performed
medical
PROCEDURES

Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examinations, f... +

Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examinations, for prostate needle biopsy, any method ×

Service Code: G0416
Performed in an office
12
times performed,
0.52% of his services

19th 91st

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

12
patients got this service, 3% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$9,600.00an average of $800.00 per time performed $4,344.24
an average of $362.02 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 did not bill Medicare for any 5’s.

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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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