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.
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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 Services
This provider performed 20 different services in 2015
(14 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 25 minutes × Service Code: 99214Performed 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 |
CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMInsertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample + Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample × Service Code: 36415Performed 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 |
TEMPORARY CODESInfluenza 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: Q2037Performed 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 |
PROCEDURESAdministration of influenza virus vaccine Service Code: G0008Performed 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 |
PROCEDURESAdministration of pneumococcal vaccine Service Code: G0009Performed 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 |
MEDICINEPneumococcal vaccine for injection into muscle Service Code: 90670Performed 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.
This provider did not bill Medicare for any 5’s.
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.