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, $1,131 per patient in 2015.
They performed about 2 services per patient. Here’s how this provider compares.

Number of
Patients
221
Rank: 98th
out of 144 providers in this state & specialty
Services
Performed
406
Rank: 102nd
out of 144 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Services
Per Patient
1.8 This Provider
Avg 2.3
Total Paid
by Medicare
$732K
Rank: 41st
out of 144 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Paid
Per Patient
$3,314 This Provider is in the top 10%
Avg $1,131

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 Part B patients.

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

This Provider's Services

This provider performed 76 different services in 2015
(69 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
medical
NERVOUS SYSTEM

Injections of anesthetic and/or steroid drug into lower o... +

Injections of anesthetic and/or steroid drug into lower or sacral spine nerve root using imaging guidance ×

Service Code: 64483
Performed in a facility
84
times performed,
21% of services

1st 4th

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

60
patients got this service, 27% of patients
1.4
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.8)
$253,260.00an average of $3,015.00 per time performed $22,156.68
an average of $263.77 per time performed
medical
NERVOUS SYSTEM

Destruction of lower or sacral spinal facet joint nerves ... +

Destruction of lower or sacral spinal facet joint nerves using imaging guidance ×

Service Code: 64635
Performed in a facility
36
times performed,
9% of services

2nd 13th

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

20
patients got this service, 9% of patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.4)
$250,308.00an average of $6,953.00 per time performed $16,683.84
an average of $463.44 per time performed
medical
NERVOUS SYSTEM

Injections of lower or sacral spine facet joint using ima... +

Injections of lower or sacral spine facet joint using imaging guidance ×

Service Code: 64493
Performed in a facility
32
times performed,
8% of services

3rd 7th

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

15
patients got this service, 7% of patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.7)
$96,480.00an average of $3,015.00 per time performed $6,579.84
an average of $205.62 per time performed
medical
NERVOUS SYSTEM

Implantation of spinal neurostimulator electrodes, access... +

Implantation of spinal neurostimulator electrodes, accessed through the skin ×

Service Code: 63650
Performed in a facility
31
times performed,
8% of services

4th 52nd

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

15
patients got this service, 7% of patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.1)
$358,546.00an average of $11,566.00 per time performed $86,760.01
an average of $2,798.71 per time performed
medical
NERVOUS SYSTEM

Insertion of spinal neurostimulator pulse generator or re... +

Insertion of spinal neurostimulator pulse generator or receiver ×

Service Code: 63685
Performed in a facility
17
times performed,
4% of services

5th Alert

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

17
patients got this service, 8% of patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
$732,394.00an average of $43,082.00 per time performed $258,041.47
an average of $15,178.91 per time performed
medical
NERVOUS SYSTEM

Injections of substances into upper or middle spine

Service Code: 62310
Performed in a facility
16
times performed,
4% of services

6th 19th

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

11
patients got this service, 5% of patients
1.5
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.8)
$48,240.00an average of $3,015.00 per time performed $4,296.32
an average of $268.52 per time performed
medical
NERVOUS SYSTEM

Partial removal of bone with release of spinal cord or sp... +

Partial removal of bone with release of spinal cord or spinal nerves of 1 interspace in lower spine ×

Service Code: 63030
Performed in a facility
11
times performed,
3% of services

7th Alert

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

11
patients got this service, 5% of patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
$198,165.00an average of $18,015.00 per time performed $18,080.37
an average of $1,643.67 per time performed

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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