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, $304 per patient in 2015.
They performed about 7 services per patient. Here’s how this provider compares.

Number of
Patients
403
Rank: 1623rd
out of 7,642 providers in this state & specialty
Services
Performed
1,460
Rank: 2513th
out of 7,642 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Services
Per Patient
3.6 This Provider
Avg 7
Total Paid
by Medicare
$58.2K
Rank: 3633rd
out of 7,642 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Paid
Per Patient
$144 This Provider
Avg $304

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
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This Provider's Services

This provider performed 37 different services in 2015
(24 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
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
551
times performed,
38% of her services

1st 1st

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

295
patients got this service, 73% of her patients
1.9
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 2.6)
$83,900.77an average of $152.27 per time performed $23,858.30
an average of $43.30 per time performed
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
168
times performed,
12% of her services

2nd 2nd

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

137
patients got this service, 34% of her patients
1.2
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 2.4)
$36,803.76an average of $219.07 per time performed $8,937.60
an average of $53.20 per time performed
medical

Chronic care management services at least 20 minutes per ... +

Chronic care management services at least 20 minutes per calendar month ×

Service Code: 99490
Performed in an office
102
times performed,
7% of her services

3rd 53rd

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

38
patients got this service, 9% of her patients
2.7
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 3.7)
$4,345.20an average of $42.60 per time performed $2,924.34
an average of $28.67 per time performed
medical
PROCEDURES

Electrical stimulation (unattended), to one or more areas... +

Electrical stimulation (unattended), to one or more areas for indication(s) other than wound care, as part of a therapy plan of care ×

Service Code: G0283
Performed in an office
93
times performed,
6% of her services

4th 168th

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

19
patients got this service, 5% of her patients
4.9
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 6.7)
$4,082.70an average of $43.90 per time performed $740.28
an average of $7.96 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Therapeutic massage to 1 or more areas, each 15 minutes

Service Code: 97124
Performed in an office
88
times performed,
6% of her services

5th 151st

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

18
patients got this service, 4% of her patients
4.9
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 5.2)
$4,820.64an average of $54.78 per time performed $1,831.28
an average of $20.81 per time performed
medical
PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY

Blood test, clotting time

Service Code: 85610
Performed in an office
57
times performed,
4% of her services

6th 32nd

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

12
patients got this service, 3% of her patients
4.8
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 5.4)
$2,223.57an average of $39.01 per time performed $298.68
an average of $5.24 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
55
times performed,
4% of her services

7th 13th

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

55
patients got this service, 14% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$30,448.00an average of $553.60 per time performed $6,389.90
an average of $116.18 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
47
times performed,
3% of her services

8th 22nd

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

34
patients got this service, 8% of her patients
1.4
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.8)
$7,117.68an average of $151.44 per time performed $1,305.19
an average of $27.77 per time performed
drug
TEMPORARY CODES

Influenza virus vaccine, split virus, when administered t... +

Influenza virus vaccine, split virus, when administered to individuals 3 years of age and older, for intramuscular use (fluvirin) ×

Service Code: Q2037
Performed in an office
36
times performed,
2% of her services

9th 30th

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

35
patients got this service, 9% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$1,403.64an average of $38.99 per time performed $557.28
an average of $15.48 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
35
times performed,
2% of her services

10th 71st

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

35
patients got this service, 9% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$14,427.70an average of $412.22 per time performed $5,989.20
an average of $171.12 per time performed
medical
PROCEDURES

Administration of influenza virus vaccine

Service Code: G0008
Performed in an office
30
times performed,
2% of her services

11th 8th

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

29
patients got this service, 7% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$1,516.20an average of $50.54 per time performed $797.70
an average of $26.59 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
26
times performed,
2% of her services

12th 11th

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

26
patients got this service, 6% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.2)
$2,527.72an average of $97.22 per time performed $313.30
an average of $12.05 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Physical therapy evaluation

Service Code: 97001
Performed in an office
15
times performed,
1% of her services

13th 321st

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

15
patients got this service, 4% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.4)
$2,893.20an average of $192.88 per time performed $859.05
an average of $57.27 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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