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
81
Rank: 1817th
out of 2,119 providers in this state & specialty
Services
Performed
233
Rank: 1788th
out of 2,119 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Services
Per Patient
2.9 This Provider
Avg 5.4
Total Paid
by Medicare
$13.5K
Rank: 1836th
out of 2,119 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Paid
Per Patient
$167 This Provider
Avg $284

Note: About 16% of this provider’s Medicare payments were for drugs administered in her 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 her Part B patients.

This Provider's Patients
Expected to have lower spending
Expected to have higher spending

This Provider's Services

This provider performed 20 different services in 2015
(14 were redacted as they were performed on less than 11 patients)

All Services

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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
102
times performed,
44% of her services

1st 1st

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

61
patients got this service, 75% of her patients
1.7
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 2.2)
$13,030.50an average of $127.75 per time performed $8,276.28
an average of $81.14 per time performed
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
27
times performed,
12% of her services

2nd 4th

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

22
patients got this service, 27% of her patients
1.2
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.9)
$81.00an average of $3.00 per time performed $79.38
an average of $2.94 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 (fluvirin) ×

Service Code: Q2037
Performed in an office
15
times performed,
6% of her services

3rd 29th

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

15
patients got this service, 19% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$224.40an average of $14.96 per time performed $219.90
an average of $14.66 per time performed
medical
PROCEDURES

Administration of influenza virus vaccine

Service Code: G0008
Performed in an office
15
times performed,
6% of her services

4th 6th

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

15
patients got this service, 19% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$406.65an average of $27.11 per time performed $398.55
an average of $26.57 per time performed
medical
PROCEDURES

Administration of pneumococcal vaccine

Service Code: G0009
Performed in an office
14
times performed,
6% of her services

5th 9th

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

14
patients got this service, 17% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$379.54an average of $27.11 per time performed $371.98
an average of $26.57 per time performed
drug
MEDICINE

Pneumococcal vaccine for injection into muscle

Service Code: 90670
Performed in an office
13
times performed,
6% of her services

6th 10th

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

13
patients got this service, 16% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$1,923.48an average of $147.96 per time performed $1,885.00
an average of $145.00 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 did not bill Medicare for any 5’s.

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Veronica Ann Difresco
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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