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.
MICHAEL POURFAR MD
NEW YORK, NY, 10016
How This Provider Compares
This Provider
Avg in State & Specialty
Providers in this state and specialty were reimbursed, on average, $348 per patient in 2015.
They performed about 11 services per patient. Here’s how this provider compares.
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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 Services
This provider performed 16 different services in 2015
(7 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 |
298 times performed, 29% of his services |
1st 3rd most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
163 patients got this service, 52% of his patients |
1.8 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.8) |
$140,906.32an average of $472.84 per time performed |
$26,155.46 an average of $87.77 per time performed |
MEDICINEElectronic analysis of implanted brain spinal cord or per... + Electronic analysis of implanted brain spinal cord or peripheral neurostimulator generator system × Service Code: 95970Performed in an office |
223 times performed, 22% of his services |
2nd 159th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
98 patients got this service, 31% of his patients |
2.3 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.8) |
$96,030.49an average of $430.63 per time performed |
$13,359.93 an average of $59.91 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 |
204 times performed, 20% of his services |
3rd 5th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
139 patients got this service, 44% of his patients |
1.5 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.7) |
$51,950.64an average of $254.66 per time performed |
$12,386.88 an average of $60.72 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTNew patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 6... + New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes × Service Code: 99205Performed in an office |
85 times performed, 8% of his services |
4th 19th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
85 patients got this service, 27% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1) |
$78,200.00an average of $920.00 per time performed |
$15,050.10 an average of $177.06 per time performed |
MEDICINEElectronic analysis and programming of implanted complex ... + Electronic analysis and programming of implanted complex deep brain neurostimulator generator system, first hour × Service Code: 95978Performed in an office |
78 times performed, 8% of his services |
5th 156th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
44 patients got this service, 14% of his patients |
1.8 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 2.2) |
$123,179.94an average of $1,579.23 per time performed |
$17,360.46 an average of $222.57 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 |
60 times performed, 6% of his services |
6th 10th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
40 patients got this service, 13% of his patients |
1.5 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.4) |
$41,850.00an average of $697.50 per time performed |
$7,447.20 an average of $124.12 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTNew patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 4... + New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes × Service Code: 99204Performed in an office |
25 times performed, 2% of his services |
7th 9th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
25 patients got this service, 8% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1) |
$17,890.00an average of $715.60 per time performed |
$3,481.50 an average of $139.26 per time performed |
MEDICINEMapping of electrical brain wave activity (eeg) using ele... + Mapping of electrical brain wave activity (eeg) using electrodes on brain surface to provoke seizure activity or assess brain function, first hour × Service Code: 95961Performed in a facility |
23 times performed, 2% of his services |
8th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in NY perform this service |
15 patients got this service, 5% of his patients |
1.5 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$47,840.00an average of $2,080.00 per time performed |
$3,213.33 an average of $139.71 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTEstablished patient office or other outpatient visit, typ... + Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes × Service Code: 99212Performed in an office |
15 times performed, 1% of his services |
9th 49th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
15 patients got this service, 5% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.5) |
$2,940.00an average of $196.00 per time performed |
$603.75 an average of $40.25 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 about the same percentage of 5’s as his peers
Michael H Pourfar
Average for Neurology Providers in New York
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.