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.
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 32 different services in 2015
(24 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 15 minutes × Service Code: 99213Performed in an office |
251 times performed, 36% of her services |
1st
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in NC perform this service |
203 patients got this service, 71% of her patients |
1.2 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$29,869.00an average of $119.00 per time performed |
$8,162.52 an average of $32.52 per time performed |
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 |
111 times performed, 16% of her services |
2nd
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in NC perform this service |
106 patients got this service, 37% of her patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$20,202.00an average of $182.00 per time performed |
$6,654.45 an average of $59.95 per time performed |
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORYDetection test for influenza virus Service Code: 87804Performed in an office |
57 times performed, 8% of her services |
3rd
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in NC perform this service |
27 patients got this service, 9% of her patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$2,052.00an average of $36.00 per time performed |
$829.35 an average of $14.55 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 |
54 times performed, 8% of her services |
4th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in NC perform this service |
44 patients got this service, 15% of her patients |
1.2 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$432.00an average of $8.00 per time performed |
$158.76 an average of $2.94 per time performed |
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORYStrep test (streptococcus, group a) Service Code: 87880Performed in an office |
45 times performed, 7% of her services |
5th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in NC perform this service |
42 patients got this service, 15% of her patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$1,575.00an average of $35.00 per time performed |
$648.90 an average of $14.42 per time performed |
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORYManual urinalysis test with examination using microscope + Manual urinalysis test with examination using microscope × Service Code: 81001Performed in an office |
40 times performed, 6% of her services |
6th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in NC perform this service |
36 patients got this service, 13% of her patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$600.00an average of $15.00 per time performed |
$164.40 an average of $4.11 per time performed |
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORYComplete blood cell count (red cells, white blood cell, p... + Complete blood cell count (red cells, white blood cell, platelets), automated test × Service Code: 85025Performed in an office |
36 times performed, 5% of her services |
7th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in NC perform this service |
32 patients got this service, 11% of her patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$1,224.00an average of $34.00 per time performed |
$373.32 an average of $10.37 per time performed |
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORYService Code: 81003Performed in an office |
11 times performed, 2% of her services |
8th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in NC perform this service |
11 patients got this service, 4% of her patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$88.00an average of $8.00 per time performed |
$33.00 an average of $3.00 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.
Ruth B Raffield
Average for Nurse Practitioner, Family Providers in North Carolina
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.