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, $348 per patient in 2015.
They performed about 11 services per patient. Here’s how this provider compares.
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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 21 different services in 2015
(9 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 |
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EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTEstablished patient office or other outpatient, visit typ... + Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes × Service Code: 99215Performed in an office |
480 times performed, 34% of his services |
1st 10th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
245 patients got this service, 73% of his patients |
2 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.4) |
$79,324.80an average of $165.26 per time performed |
$57,470.40 an average of $119.73 per time performed |
MEDICINEUltrasound scanning of blood flow (outside the brain) on ... + Ultrasound scanning of blood flow (outside the brain) on both sides of head and neck × Service Code: 93880Performed in an office |
202 times performed, 14% of his services |
2nd 21st most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
195 patients got this service, 58% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1) |
$53,774.42an average of $266.21 per time performed |
$29,708.14 an average of $147.07 per time performed |
MEDICINEUltrasound scanning of head and neck vessel blood flow (i... + Ultrasound scanning of head and neck vessel blood flow (inside the brain) × Service Code: 93886Performed in an office |
151 times performed, 11% of his services |
3rd 25th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
144 patients got this service, 43% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1) |
$50,894.55an average of $337.05 per time performed |
$32,489.16 an average of $215.16 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 |
132 times performed, 9% of his services |
4th 3rd most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
113 patients got this service, 34% of his patients |
1.2 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.8) |
$16,045.92an average of $121.56 per time performed |
$11,784.96 an average of $89.28 per time performed |
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 |
111 times performed, 8% of his services |
5th 5th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
89 patients got this service, 26% of his patients |
1.2 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.7) |
$9,159.72an average of $82.52 per time performed |
$6,774.33 an average of $61.03 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTNew patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 6... + New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes × Service Code: 99205Performed in an office |
79 times performed, 6% of his services |
6th 19th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
79 patients got this service, 24% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1) |
$18,625.04an average of $235.76 per time performed |
$14,007.49 an average of $177.31 per time performed |
MEDICINENeedle measurement and recording of electrical activity o... + Needle measurement and recording of electrical activity of muscles of arm or leg complete study × Service Code: 95886Performed in an office |
50 times performed, 4% of his services |
7th 8th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
25 patients got this service, 7% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.1) |
$5,216.50an average of $104.33 per time performed |
$3,969.50 an average of $79.39 per time performed |
MEDICINEMeasurement and recording of brain wave (eeg) activity, a... + Measurement and recording of brain wave (eeg) activity, awake and asleep × Service Code: 95819Performed in an office |
44 times performed, 3% of his services |
8th 45th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
43 patients got this service, 13% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1) |
$21,110.32an average of $479.78 per time performed |
$15,983.44 an average of $363.26 per time performed |
MEDICINEDigital analysis of electrical brain wave activity (eeg) + Digital analysis of electrical brain wave activity (eeg) × Service Code: 95957Performed in an office |
44 times performed, 3% of his services |
9th 87th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
43 patients got this service, 13% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.1) |
$16,162.96an average of $367.34 per time performed |
$12,139.60 an average of $275.90 per time performed |
MEDICINENeurobehavioral status examination, interpretation, and r... + Neurobehavioral status examination, interpretation, and report by psychologist or physician per hour × Service Code: 96116Performed in an office |
43 times performed, 3% of his services |
10th 109th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
42 patients got this service, 13% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.1) |
$4,197.66an average of $97.62 per time performed |
$3,291.22 an average of $76.54 per time performed |
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Nerve transmission studies, 9-10 studies Service Code: 95911Performed in an office |
17 times performed, 1% of his services |
11th 33rd most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
17 patients got this service, 5% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.1) |
$4,540.87an average of $267.11 per time performed |
$3,449.30 an average of $202.90 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 |
15 times performed, 1% of his services |
12th 16th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
15 patients got this service, 4% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1) |
$2,332.05an average of $155.47 per time performed |
$1,723.20 an average of $114.88 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 charged Medicare for a higher percentage of 5’s than his peers.
Amir Allen Towfigh
Average for Neurology 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.