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, $405 per patient in 2015.
They performed about 7 services per patient. Here’s how this provider compares.

Number of
Patients
299
Rank: 462nd
out of 971 providers in this state & specialty
Services
Performed
2,849
Rank: 271st
out of 971 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Services
Per Patient
9.5 This Provider
Avg 6.5
Total Paid
by Medicare
$89.9K
Rank: 596th
out of 971 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Paid
Per Patient
$301 This Provider
Avg $405

Note: About 21% 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 59 different services in 2015
(50 were redacted as they were performed on less than 11 patients)

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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
1,824
times performed,
64% of his services

1st 1st

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

26
patients got this service, 9% of his patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.5)
$32,248.32an average of $17.68 per time performed $17,856.96
an average of $9.79 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
237
times performed,
8% of his services

2nd 3rd

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

130
patients got this service, 43% of his patients
1.7
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.7)
$53,054.82an average of $223.86 per time performed $10,982.58
an average of $46.34 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
180
times performed,
6% of his services

3rd 2nd

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

133
patients got this service, 44% of his patients
1.4
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.6)
$29,880.00an average of $166.00 per time performed $8,467.20
an average of $47.04 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
145
times performed,
5% of his services

4th 9th

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

90
patients got this service, 30% of his patients
1.6
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.4)
$14,189.70an average of $97.86 per time performed $3,893.25
an average of $26.85 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
94
times performed,
3% of his services

5th 6th

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

94
patients got this service, 31% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$23,218.00an average of $247.00 per time performed $6,128.80
an average of $65.20 per time performed
medical
RADIOLOGY

X-ray of knee, 1 or 2 views

Service Code: 73560
Performed in an office
89
times performed,
3% of his services

6th 14th

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

61
patients got this service, 20% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.3)
$8,909.79an average of $100.11 per time performed $1,715.03
an average of $19.27 per time performed
medical
RADIOLOGY

X-ray of both knees, standing, front to back view

Service Code: 73565
Performed in an office
63
times performed,
2% of his services

7th 23rd

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

60
patients got this service, 20% of his patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.1)
$8,694.00an average of $138.00 per time performed $1,413.09
an average of $22.43 per time performed
medical
RADIOLOGY

X-ray of shoulder, minimum of 2 views

Service Code: 73030
Performed in an office
26
times performed,
0.91% of his services

8th 12th

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

26
patients got this service, 9% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.3)
$2,860.00an average of $110.00 per time performed $529.62
an average of $20.37 per time performed
medical
RADIOLOGY

X-ray of pelvis, 1 or 2 views

Service Code: 72170
Performed in an office
13
times performed,
0.46% of his services

9th 19th

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

13
patients got this service, 4% of his patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.2)
$1,495.00an average of $115.00 per time performed $239.72
an average of $18.44 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.

Hover over each slice to see percentage breakdown.

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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