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, $258 per patient in 2015.
They performed about 7 services per patient. Here’s how this provider compares.

Number of
Patients
127
Rank: 2144th
out of 2,523 providers in this state & specialty
Services
Performed
1,887
Rank: 879th
out of 2,523 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Services
Per Patient
14.9 This Provider
Avg 7.3
Total Paid
by Medicare
$47K
Rank: 1767th
out of 2,523 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Paid
Per Patient
$370 This Provider
Avg $258

Note: About 22% 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 62 different services in 2015
(46 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
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
285
times performed,
15% of his services

1st 3rd

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

113
patients got this service, 89% of his patients
2.5
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 2.1)
$4,560.00an average of $16.00 per time performed $820.80
an average of $2.88 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
203
times performed,
11% of his services

2nd 1st

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

96
patients got this service, 76% of his patients
2.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 2.3)
$41,615.00an average of $205.00 per time performed $13,866.93
an average of $68.31 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
130
times performed,
7% of his services

3rd 7th

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

87
patients got this service, 69% of his patients
1.5
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.6)
$3,640.00an average of $28.00 per time performed $1,259.70
an average of $9.69 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
122
times performed,
6% of his services

4th 28th

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

69
patients got this service, 54% of his patients
1.8
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.4)
$36,478.00an average of $299.00 per time performed $11,325.26
an average of $92.83 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Hemoglobin a1c level

Service Code: 83036
Performed in an office
108
times performed,
6% of his services

5th 11th

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

54
patients got this service, 43% of his patients
2
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.7)
$3,780.00an average of $35.00 per time performed $1,364.04
an average of $12.63 per time performed
medical
PROCEDURES

Administration of influenza virus vaccine

Service Code: G0008
Performed in an office
54
times performed,
3% of his services

6th 15th

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

53
patients got this service, 42% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$2,214.00an average of $41.00 per time performed $1,275.48
an average of $23.62 per time performed
medical
PROCEDURES

Administration of pneumococcal vaccine

Service Code: G0009
Performed in an office
53
times performed,
3% of his services

7th 19th

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

52
patients got this service, 41% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$2,173.00an average of $41.00 per time performed $1,250.80
an average of $23.60 per time performed
drug
MEDICINE

Pneumococcal vaccine for injection into muscle

Service Code: 90670
Performed in an office
48
times performed,
3% of his services

8th 21st

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

47
patients got this service, 37% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$14,832.00an average of $309.00 per time performed $7,571.04
an average of $157.73 per time performed
drug

Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle

Service Code: 90661
Performed in an office
47
times performed,
2% of his services

9th 150th

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

46
patients got this service, 36% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$2,914.00an average of $62.00 per time performed $965.38
an average of $20.54 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
38
times performed,
2% of his services

10th 41st

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

30
patients got this service, 24% of his patients
1.3
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 2.5)
$342.00an average of $9.00 per time performed $118.94
an average of $3.13 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Automated urinalysis test

Service Code: 81003
Performed in an office
31
times performed,
2% of his services

11th 29th

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

25
patients got this service, 20% of his patients
1.2
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.3)
$248.00an average of $8.00 per time performed $87.11
an average of $2.81 per time performed
medical
RADIOLOGY

Bone density measurement using dedicated x-ray machine

Service Code: 77080
Performed in an office
25
times performed,
1% of his services

12th 82nd

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

25
patients got this service, 20% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$10,925.00an average of $437.00 per time performed $881.25
an average of $35.25 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Urine microalbumin (protein) analysis

Service Code: 82044
Performed in an office
24
times performed,
1% of his services

13th 90th

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

23
patients got this service, 18% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.2)
$264.00an average of $11.00 per time performed $91.68
an average of $3.82 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Creatinine level to test for kidney function or muscle in... +

Creatinine level to test for kidney function or muscle injury ×

Service Code: 82570
Performed in an office
22
times performed,
1% of his services

14th 40th

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

21
patients got this service, 17% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.3)
$418.00an average of $19.00 per time performed $151.80
an average of $6.90 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
19
times performed,
1% of his services

15th 27th

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

17
patients got this service, 13% of his patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.1)
$1,311.00an average of $69.00 per time performed $219.26
an average of $11.54 per time performed
medical
SKIN, HAIR AND NAILS

Destruction of skin growth

Service Code: 17000
Performed in an office
15
times performed,
0.79% of his services

16th 179th

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

12
patients got this service, 9% of his patients
1.3
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.5)
$2,805.00an average of $187.00 per time performed $463.95
an average of $30.93 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.

Hover over each slice to see percentage breakdown.

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

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Dennis S Layton
Average for Internal Medicine Providers in North Carolina

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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