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.
This Provider: At A Glance
We aren’t showing our typical comparisons because this provider had an address in a different state in 2015.
Note: About 21% 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 30 different services in 2015
(21 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 25 minutes × Service Code: 99214Performed in an office |
272 times performed, 21% of her services |
1st
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in CA perform this service |
128 patients got this service, 52% of her patients |
2.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$85,680.00an average of $315.00 per time performed |
$25,766.56 an average of $94.73 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 |
199 times performed, 15% of her services |
2nd
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in CA perform this service |
153 patients got this service, 62% of her patients |
1.3 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$42,785.00an average of $215.00 per time performed |
$12,188.75 an average of $61.25 per time performed |
PROCEDURESAdministration of pneumococcal vaccine Service Code: G0009Performed in an office |
116 times performed, 9% of her services |
3rd
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in CA perform this service |
115 patients got this service, 46% of her patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$3,596.00an average of $31.00 per time performed |
$3,524.08 an average of $30.38 per time performed |
MEDICINEPneumococcal vaccine for injection into muscle Service Code: 90670Performed in an office |
109 times performed, 8% of her services |
4th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in CA perform this service |
109 patients got this service, 44% of her patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$17,641.65an average of $161.85 per time performed |
$16,442.65 an average of $150.85 per time performed |
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 |
108 times performed, 8% of her services |
5th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in CA perform this service |
57 patients got this service, 23% of her patients |
1.9 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$45,360.00an average of $420.00 per time performed |
$14,362.92 an average of $132.99 per time performed |
PROCEDURESAdministration of influenza virus vaccine Service Code: G0008Performed in an office |
53 times performed, 4% of her services |
6th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in CA perform this service |
50 patients got this service, 20% of her patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$1,710.84an average of $32.28 per time performed |
$1,672.15 an average of $31.55 per time performed |
PROCEDURESAnnual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention... + Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit × Service Code: G0439Performed in an office |
47 times performed, 4% of her services |
7th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in CA perform this service |
47 patients got this service, 19% of her patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$6,016.00an average of $128.00 per time performed |
$6,183.79 an average of $131.57 per time performed |
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Vaccine for influenza administered into muscle to individ... + Vaccine for influenza administered into muscle to individuals 3 years of age and older × Service Code: 90686Performed in an office |
44 times performed, 3% of her services |
8th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in CA perform this service |
43 patients got this service, 17% of her patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$836.00an average of $19.00 per time performed |
$782.32 an average of $17.78 per time performed |
PROCEDURESAnnual wellness visit; includes a personalized prevention... + Annual wellness visit; includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), initial visit × Service Code: G0438Performed in an office |
12 times performed, 0.92% of her services |
9th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in CA perform this service |
12 patients got this service, 5% of her patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$2,256.00an average of $188.00 per time performed |
$2,319.00 an average of $193.25 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 her peers.
Patricia Santana
Average for Internal Medicine Providers in California
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.