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, $256 per patient in 2015.
They performed about 6 services per patient. Here’s how this provider compares.

Number of
Patients
649
Rank: 96th
out of 3,272 providers in this state & specialty
Services
Performed
3,795
Rank: 280th
out of 3,272 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Services
Per Patient
5.8 This Provider
Avg 5.8
Total Paid
by Medicare
$218K
Rank: 125th
out of 3,272 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Paid
Per Patient
$335 This Provider
Avg $256

Note: About 17% of this provider’s Medicare payments were for drugs administered in her 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 her Part B patients.

This Provider's Patients
Expected to have lower spending
Expected to have higher spending

This Provider's Services

This provider performed 48 different services in 2015
(28 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 25 minutes ×

Service Code: 99214
Performed in an office
1,009
times performed,
27% of her services

1st 2nd

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

543
patients got this service, 84% of her patients
1.9
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 2.1)
$307,745.00an average of $305.00 per time performed $91,889.63
an average of $91.07 per time performed
medical
CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM

Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample +

Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample ×

Service Code: 36415
Performed in an office
699
times performed,
18% of her services

2nd 3rd

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

427
patients got this service, 66% of her patients
1.6
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 2)
$13,980.00an average of $20.00 per time performed $2,055.06
an average of $2.94 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
396
times performed,
10% of her services

3rd 1st

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

279
patients got this service, 43% of her patients
1.4
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 2.3)
$82,764.00an average of $209.00 per time performed $24,544.08
an average of $61.98 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Urinalysis, manual test

Service Code: 81002
Performed in an office
246
times performed,
6% of her services

4th 22nd

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

229
patients got this service, 35% of her patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.4)
$2,214.00an average of $9.00 per time performed $838.86
an average of $3.41 per time performed
medical
PROCEDURES

Administration of pneumococcal vaccine

Service Code: G0009
Performed in an office
195
times performed,
5% of her services

5th 16th

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

195
patients got this service, 30% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$14,820.00an average of $76.00 per time performed $5,770.05
an average of $29.59 per time performed
medical
PROCEDURES

Administration of influenza virus vaccine

Service Code: G0008
Performed in an office
194
times performed,
5% of her services

6th 5th

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

193
patients got this service, 30% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$14,744.00an average of $76.00 per time performed $5,744.34
an average of $29.61 per time performed
drug
MEDICINE

Pneumococcal vaccine for injection into muscle

Service Code: 90670
Performed in an office
174
times performed,
5% of her services

7th 19th

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

174
patients got this service, 27% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$53,940.00an average of $310.00 per time performed $29,506.92
an average of $169.58 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretat... +

Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report ×

Service Code: 93000
Performed in an office
159
times performed,
4% of her services

8th 8th

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

157
patients got this service, 24% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.2)
$9,858.00an average of $62.00 per time performed $2,351.61
an average of $14.79 per time performed
medical
PROCEDURES

Annual wellness visit; includes a personalized prevention... +

Annual wellness visit; includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), initial visit ×

Service Code: G0438
Performed in an office
109
times performed,
3% of her services

9th 46th

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

109
patients got this service, 17% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$51,012.00an average of $468.00 per time performed $21,553.66
an average of $197.74 per time performed
medical
PROCEDURES

Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention... +

Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit ×

Service Code: G0439
Performed in an office
105
times performed,
3% of her services

10th 15th

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

105
patients got this service, 16% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$32,970.00an average of $314.00 per time performed $14,109.90
an average of $134.38 per time performed
drug

Vaccine for influenza administered into muscle to individ... +

Vaccine for influenza administered into muscle to individuals 3 years of age and older ×

Service Code: 90686
Performed in an office
101
times performed,
3% of her services

11th 54th

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

101
patients got this service, 16% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$5,555.00an average of $55.00 per time performed $1,797.80
an average of $17.80 per time performed
drug
MEDICINE

Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle

Service Code: 90662
Performed in an office
84
times performed,
2% of her services

12th 27th

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

84
patients got this service, 13% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$5,544.00an average of $66.00 per time performed $2,989.56
an average of $35.59 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Respiratory inhaled pressure or nonpressure treatment to ... +

Respiratory inhaled pressure or nonpressure treatment to relieve airway obstruction or for sputum specimen ×

Service Code: 94640
Performed in an office
33
times performed,
0.87% of her services

13th 109th

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

25
patients got this service, 4% of her patients
1.3
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.2)
$1,485.00an average of $45.00 per time performed $575.85
an average of $17.45 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Injection beneath the skin or into muscle for therapy, di... +

Injection beneath the skin or into muscle for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention ×

Service Code: 96372
Performed in an office
33
times performed,
0.87% of her services

14th 29th

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

19
patients got this service, 3% of her patients
1.6
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 2.6)
$2,178.00an average of $66.00 per time performed $741.84
an average of $22.48 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
31
times performed,
0.82% of her services

15th 33rd

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

31
patients got this service, 5% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$9,641.00an average of $311.00 per time performed $2,612.99
an average of $84.29 per time performed
medical
PROCEDURES

Physician certification for medicare-covered home health ... +

Physician certification for medicare-covered home health services under a home health plan of care (patient not present), including contacts with home health agency and review of reports of patient status required by physicians to affirm the initial imple ×

Service Code: G0180
Performed in an office
25
times performed,
0.66% of her services

16th 75th

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

21
patients got this service, 3% of her patients
1.2
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.2)
$3,925.00an average of $157.00 per time performed $1,239.75
an average of $49.59 per time performed
medical
PROCEDURES

Initial preventive physical examination; face-to-face vis... +

Initial preventive physical examination; face-to-face visit, services limited to new beneficiary during the first 12 months of medicare enrollment ×

Service Code: G0402
Performed in an office
24
times performed,
0.63% of her services

17th 175th

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

24
patients got this service, 4% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$10,224.00an average of $426.00 per time performed $4,410.24
an average of $183.76 per time performed
drug
MEDICINE

Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection ben... +

Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older ×

Service Code: 90732
Performed in an office
19
times performed,
0.5% of her services

18th 92nd

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

19
patients got this service, 3% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$2,356.00an average of $124.00 per time performed $1,481.43
an average of $77.97 per time performed
medical
TEMPORARY CODES

Screening papanicolaou smear; obtaining, preparing and co... +

Screening papanicolaou smear; obtaining, preparing and conveyance of cervical or vaginal smear to laboratory ×

Service Code: Q0091
Performed in an office
14
times performed,
0.37% of her services

19th 295th

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

14
patients got this service, 2% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$1,764.00an average of $126.00 per time performed $744.66
an average of $53.19 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Stool analysis for blood

Service Code: 82272
Performed in an office
14
times performed,
0.37% of her services

20th 215th

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

14
patients got this service, 2% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.1)
$168.00an average of $12.00 per time performed $60.76
an average of $4.34 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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