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, $284 per patient in 2015.
They performed about 5 services per patient. Here’s how this provider compares.

Number of
Patients
575
Rank: 365th
out of 2,119 providers in this state & specialty
Services
Performed
2,768
Rank: 431st
out of 2,119 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Services
Per Patient
4.8 This Provider
Avg 5.4
Total Paid
by Medicare
$141K
Rank: 513th
out of 2,119 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Paid
Per Patient
$245 This Provider
Avg $284

Note: About 24% of this provider’s Medicare payments were for drugs administered in his 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 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 30 different services in 2015
(17 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 15 minutes ×

Service Code: 99213
Performed in an office
1,090
times performed,
39% of his services

1st 2nd

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

465
patients got this service, 81% of his patients
2.3
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 2.2)
$158,050.00an average of $145.00 per time performed $55,448.30
an average of $50.87 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 an office
272
times performed,
10% of his services

2nd 1st

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

214
patients got this service, 37% of his patients
1.3
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 2.2)
$57,120.00an average of $210.00 per time performed $21,028.32
an average of $77.31 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Blood glucose (sugar) test performed by hand-held instrument +

Blood glucose (sugar) test performed by hand-held instrument ×

Service Code: 82962
Performed in an office
245
times performed,
9% of his services

3rd 34th

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

149
patients got this service, 26% of his patients
1.6
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 2.4)
$1,715.00an average of $7.00 per time performed $764.40
an average of $3.12 per time performed
medical
PROCEDURES

Administration of influenza virus vaccine

Service Code: G0008
Performed in an office
232
times performed,
8% of his services

4th 6th

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

224
patients got this service, 39% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$10,440.00an average of $45.00 per time performed $6,264.00
an average of $27.00 per time performed
medical
PROCEDURES

Administration of pneumococcal vaccine

Service Code: G0009
Performed in an office
202
times performed,
7% of his services

5th 9th

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

201
patients got this service, 35% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$9,090.00an average of $45.00 per time performed $5,387.34
an average of $26.67 per time performed
drug
MEDICINE

Pneumococcal vaccine for injection into muscle

Service Code: 90670
Performed in an office
154
times performed,
6% of his services

6th 10th

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

153
patients got this service, 27% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$53,900.00an average of $350.00 per time performed $25,172.84
an average of $163.46 per time performed
drug
TEMPORARY CODES

Influenza virus vaccine, split virus, when administered t... +

Influenza virus vaccine, split virus, when administered to individuals 3 years of age and older, for intramuscular use (fluzone) ×

Service Code: Q2038
Performed in an office
148
times performed,
5% of his services

7th 54th

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

144
patients got this service, 25% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$5,174.08an average of $34.96 per time performed $1,746.40
an average of $11.80 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
88
times performed,
3% of his services

8th 8th

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

83
patients got this service, 14% of his patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.1)
$7,304.00an average of $83.00 per time performed $953.04
an average of $10.83 per time performed
drug
MEDICINE

Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle

Service Code: 90662
Performed in an office
84
times performed,
3% of his services

9th 19th

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

84
patients got this service, 15% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$5,880.00an average of $70.00 per time performed $2,989.56
an average of $35.59 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
53
times performed,
2% of his services

10th 13th

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

53
patients got this service, 9% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$15,688.00an average of $296.00 per time performed $6,508.40
an average of $122.80 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
52
times performed,
2% of his services

11th 58th

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

52
patients got this service, 9% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$8,060.00an average of $155.00 per time performed $3,851.12
an average of $74.06 per time performed
medical
PROCEDURES

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

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

Service Code: G0438
Performed in an office
14
times performed,
0.51% of his services

12th 40th

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

14
patients got this service, 2% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$4,984.00an average of $356.00 per time performed $2,533.72
an average of $180.98 per time performed
medical

Transitional care management services, moderately complex... +

Transitional care management services, moderately complexity, requiring face-to-face visits within 14 days of discharge ×

Service Code: 99495
Performed in an office
12
times performed,
0.43% of his services

13th 85th

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

11
patients got this service, 2% of his patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.1)
$4,212.00an average of $351.00 per time performed $1,548.24
an average of $129.02 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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Robert K Roby
Average for Internal Medicine 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.

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