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, $369 per patient in 2015.
They performed about 5 services per patient. Here’s how this provider compares.

Number of
Patients
120
Rank: 664th
out of 838 providers in this state & specialty
Services
Performed
2,274
Rank: 211th
out of 838 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Services
Per Patient
19 This Provider is in the top 10%
Avg 4.9
Total Paid
by Medicare
$59.2K
Rank: 573rd
out of 838 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Paid
Per Patient
$494 This Provider
Avg $369

Note: About 37% 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 17 different services in 2015
(7 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
drug
DRUGS

Hyaluronan or derivative, synvisc or synvisc-one, for int... +

Hyaluronan or derivative, synvisc or synvisc-one, for intra-articular injection, 1 mg ×

Service Code: J7325
Performed in an office
1,255
times performed,
55% of his services

1st 2nd

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

14
patients got this service, 12% of his patients
3
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.8)
$20,080.00an average of $16.00 per time performed $12,248.80
an average of $9.76 per time performed
medical
MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM

Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule +

Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule ×

Service Code: 20610
Performed in an office
298
times performed,
13% of his services

2nd 3rd

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

71
patients got this service, 59% of his patients
3.5
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.8)
$36,379.84an average of $122.08 per time performed $11,920.00
an average of $40.00 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
196
times performed,
9% of his services

3rd 5th

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

109
patients got this service, 91% of his patients
1.8
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.4)
$25,088.00an average of $128.00 per time performed $15,111.60
an average of $77.10 per time performed
drug
DRUGS

Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg

Service Code: J1030
Performed in an office
178
times performed,
8% of his services

4th 9th

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

64
patients got this service, 53% of his patients
2.3
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.4)
$1,790.68an average of $10.06 per time performed $498.40
an average of $2.80 per time performed
medical
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT

Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typ... +

Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes ×

Service Code: 99213
Performed in an office
114
times performed,
5% of his services

5th 1st

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

42
patients got this service, 35% of his patients
2.7
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.6)
$11,401.14an average of $100.01 per time performed $6,083.04
an average of $53.36 per time performed
drug
DRUGS

Hyaluronan or derivative, euflexxa, for intra-articular i... +

Hyaluronan or derivative, euflexxa, for intra-articular injection, per dose ×

Service Code: J7323
Performed in an office
82
times performed,
4% of his services

6th 21st

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

14
patients got this service, 12% of his patients
3.6
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 2.8)
$16,815.74an average of $205.07 per time performed $9,292.24
an average of $113.32 per time performed
medical
RADIOLOGY

X-ray of knee, 3 views

Service Code: 73562
Performed in an office
62
times performed,
3% of his services

7th 7th

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

57
patients got this service, 48% of his patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.2)
$4,030.00an average of $65.00 per time performed $1,547.52
an average of $24.96 per time performed
medical
RADIOLOGY

X-ray of pelvis, 1 or 2 views

Service Code: 72170
Performed in an office
30
times performed,
1% of his services

8th 17th

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

28
patients got this service, 23% of his patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.2)
$1,260.00an average of $42.00 per time performed $610.20
an average of $20.34 per time performed
medical
RADIOLOGY

X-ray of ribs of one side of body, minimum of 2 views

Service Code: 73510
Performed in an office
25
times performed,
1% of his services

9th 13th

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

24
patients got this service, 20% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.3)
$1,800.00an average of $72.00 per time performed $687.50
an average of $27.50 per time performed
medical
RADIOLOGY

X-ray of both hips minimum 2 views

Service Code: 73520
Performed in an office
12
times performed,
0.53% of his services

10th 43rd

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

12
patients got this service, 10% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.1)
$1,716.00an average of $143.00 per time performed $352.56
an average of $29.38 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.

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This provider did not bill Medicare for any 5’s.

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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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