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, $444 per patient in 2015.
They performed about 4 services per patient. Here’s how this provider compares.

Number of
Patients
929
Rank: 95th
out of 244 providers in this state & specialty
Services
Performed
2,973
Rank: 109th
out of 244 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Services
Per Patient
3.2 This Provider
Avg 4.1
Total Paid
by Medicare
$273K
Rank: 114th
out of 244 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Paid
Per Patient
$294 This Provider
Avg $444

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
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This Provider's Services

This provider performed 30 different services in 2015
(17 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 15 minutes ×

Service Code: 99213
Performed in an office
1,912
times performed,
64% of his services

1st 1st

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

801
patients got this service, 86% of his patients
2.4
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.5)
$117,492.40an average of $61.45 per time performed $81,757.12
an average of $42.76 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Measurement of field of vision during daylight conditions +

Measurement of field of vision during daylight conditions ×

Service Code: 92083
Performed in an office
405
times performed,
14% of his services

2nd 10th

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

393
patients got this service, 42% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.1)
$33,120.90an average of $81.78 per time performed $16,843.95
an average of $41.59 per time performed
medical
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT

New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 4... +

New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes ×

Service Code: 99204
Performed in an office
164
times performed,
6% of his services

3rd 13th

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

164
patients got this service, 18% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$25,072.32an average of $152.88 per time performed $18,518.88
an average of $112.92 per time performed
medical
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT

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

Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes ×

Service Code: 99212
Performed in an office
131
times performed,
4% of his services

4th 17th

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

106
patients got this service, 11% of his patients
1.2
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.4)
$5,989.32an average of $45.72 per time performed $4,011.22
an average of $30.62 per time performed
medical
EYE

Creation of eye fluid drainage tract

Service Code: 66170
Performed in a facility
96
times performed,
3% of his services

5th Alert

most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in IN perform this service

80
patients got this service, 9% of his patients
1.2
average number of visits a patient made for this service
$157,260.48an average of $1,638.13 per time performed $86,641.92
an average of $902.52 per time performed
medical
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT

New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 3... +

New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes ×

Service Code: 99203
Performed in an office
68
times performed,
2% of his services

6th 25th

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

68
patients got this service, 7% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$6,895.20an average of $101.40 per time performed $5,142.84
an average of $75.63 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Diagnostic imaging of optic nerve of eye

Service Code: 92133
Performed in an office
43
times performed,
1% of his services

7th 11th

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

42
patients got this service, 5% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.1)
$3,808.08an average of $88.56 per time performed $1,225.93
an average of $28.51 per time performed
medical
EYE

Creation of shunt to improve eye fluid flow with graft

Service Code: 66180
Performed in a facility
24
times performed,
0.81% of his services

8th Alert

most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in IN perform this service

20
patients got this service, 2% of his patients
1.2
average number of visits a patient made for this service
$47,970.00an average of $1,998.75 per time performed $20,304.48
an average of $846.02 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
20
times performed,
0.67% of his services

9th 7th

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

20
patients got this service, 2% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.1)
$1,751.00an average of $87.55 per time performed $1,306.20
an average of $65.31 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Measurement of corneal curvature and depth of eye

Service Code: 92136
Performed in an office
15
times performed,
0.5% of his services

10th 6th

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

13
patients got this service, 1% of his patients
1.2
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.6)
$2,295.00an average of $153.00 per time performed $916.35
an average of $61.09 per time performed
medical
EYE

Creation of eye fluid drainage tract

Service Code: 66172
Performed in a facility
13
times performed,
0.44% of his services

11th Alert

most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in IN perform this service

13
patients got this service, 1% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
$23,940.02an average of $1,841.54 per time performed $14,802.45
an average of $1,138.65 per time performed
medical
EYE

Removal of cataract with insertion of lens

Service Code: 66984
Performed in a facility
13
times performed,
0.44% of his services

12th 5th

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

11
patients got this service, 1% of his patients
1.2
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.6)
$24,327.55an average of $1,871.35 per time performed $5,787.21
an average of $445.17 per time performed
medical
RADIOLOGY

Ultrasound of corneal structure and measurement

Service Code: 76514
Performed in an office
12
times performed,
0.4% of his services

13th 29th

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

12
patients got this service, 1% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$303.72an average of $25.31 per time performed $130.80
an average of $10.90 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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Hemang C. Patel
Average for Ophthalmology Providers in Indiana

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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