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 39 different services in 2015
(26 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 15 minutes × Service Code: 99213Performed in an office |
248 times performed, 31% of his services |
1st
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in NY perform this service |
185 patients got this service, 45% of his patients |
1.3 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$26,040.00an average of $105.00 per time performed |
$12,543.84 an average of $50.58 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTInitial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per... + Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day × Service Code: 99222Performed in a facility |
85 times performed, 11% of his services |
2nd
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in NY perform this service |
83 patients got this service, 20% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$15,725.00an average of $185.00 per time performed |
$8,792.40 an average of $103.44 per time performed |
DIGESTIVE SYSTEMBiopsy of the esophagus, stomach, and/or upper small bowe... + Biopsy of the esophagus, stomach, and/or upper small bowel using an endoscope × Service Code: 43239Performed in a facility |
61 times performed, 8% of his services |
3rd
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in NY perform this service |
59 patients got this service, 14% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$38,125.00an average of $625.00 per time performed |
$5,366.78 an average of $87.98 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTNew patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 3... + New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes × Service Code: 99203Performed in an office |
59 times performed, 7% of his services |
4th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in NY perform this service |
59 patients got this service, 14% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$10,915.00an average of $185.00 per time performed |
$4,425.59 an average of $75.01 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTSubsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 15 minutes ... + Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 15 minutes per day × Service Code: 99231Performed in a facility |
59 times performed, 7% of his services |
5th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in NY perform this service |
40 patients got this service, 10% of his patients |
1.3 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$3,245.00an average of $55.00 per time performed |
$1,748.17 an average of $29.63 per time performed |
DIGESTIVE SYSTEMRemoval of polyps or growths of large bowel using an endo... + Removal of polyps or growths of large bowel using an endoscope × Service Code: 45385Performed in a facility |
43 times performed, 5% of his services |
6th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in NY perform this service |
43 patients got this service, 11% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$39,775.00an average of $925.00 per time performed |
$10,019.43 an average of $233.01 per time performed |
DIGESTIVE SYSTEMService Code: 43450Performed in a facility |
37 times performed, 5% of his services |
7th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in NY perform this service |
37 patients got this service, 9% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$9,250.00an average of $250.00 per time performed |
$1,240.98 an average of $33.54 per time performed |
DIGESTIVE SYSTEMDiagnostic examination of esophagus, stomach, and/or uppe... + Diagnostic examination of esophagus, stomach, and/or upper small bowel using an endoscope × Service Code: 43235Performed in a facility |
33 times performed, 4% of his services |
8th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in NY perform this service |
33 patients got this service, 8% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$17,325.00an average of $525.00 per time performed |
$2,894.43 an average of $87.71 per time performed |
DIGESTIVE SYSTEMDiagnostic examination of large bowel using an endoscope + Diagnostic examination of large bowel using an endoscope × Service Code: 45378Performed in a facility |
29 times performed, 4% of his services |
9th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in NY perform this service |
29 patients got this service, 7% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$19,430.00an average of $670.00 per time performed |
$4,446.57 an average of $153.33 per time performed |
DIGESTIVE SYSTEMBiopsy of large bowel using an endoscope Service Code: 45380Performed in a facility |
27 times performed, 3% of his services |
10th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in NY perform this service |
27 patients got this service, 7% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$20,115.00an average of $745.00 per time performed |
$5,110.83 an average of $189.29 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTEstablished patient office or other outpatient, visit typ... + Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes × Service Code: 99214Performed in an office |
15 times performed, 2% of his services |
11th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in NY perform this service |
15 patients got this service, 4% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$2,475.00an average of $165.00 per time performed |
$989.10 an average of $65.94 per time performed |
PROCEDURESColorectal cancer screening; colonoscopy on individual no... + Colorectal cancer screening; colonoscopy on individual not meeting criteria for high risk × Service Code: G0121Performed in a facility |
15 times performed, 2% of his services |
12th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in NY perform this service |
15 patients got this service, 4% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$10,050.00an average of $670.00 per time performed |
$3,004.65 an average of $200.31 per time performed |
PROCEDURESColorectal cancer screening; colonoscopy on individual at... + Colorectal cancer screening; colonoscopy on individual at high risk × Service Code: G0105Performed in a facility |
12 times performed, 1% of his services |
13th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in NY perform this service |
12 patients got this service, 3% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$8,040.00an average of $670.00 per time performed |
$2,381.16 an average of $198.43 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.
Alan S Lerman
Average for Gastroenterology Providers in New York
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.