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, $258 per patient in 2015.
They performed about 7 services per patient. Here’s how this provider compares.
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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 Services
This provider performed 39 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 |
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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 |
1,078 times performed, 59% of his services |
1st 1st most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
375 patients got this service, 53% of his patients |
2.9 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 2.3) |
$244,706.00an average of $227.00 per time performed |
$82,369.98 an average of $76.41 per time performed |
MEDICINEUltrasound examination of heart including color-depicted ... + Ultrasound examination of heart including color-depicted blood flow rate, direction, and valve function × Service Code: 93306Performed in a facility |
145 times performed, 8% of his services |
2nd 112th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
143 patients got this service, 20% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1) |
$40,310.00an average of $278.00 per time performed |
$6,993.35 an average of $48.23 per time performed |
MEDICINEUltrasound examination of heart including color-depicted ... + Ultrasound examination of heart including color-depicted blood flow rate, direction, and valve function × Service Code: 93306Performed in an office |
88 times performed, 5% of his services |
3rd 105th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
88 patients got this service, 12% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1) |
$87,032.00an average of $989.00 per time performed |
$13,810.72 an average of $156.94 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTSubsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes ... + Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day × Service Code: 99232Performed in a facility |
76 times performed, 4% of his services |
4th 5th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
46 patients got this service, 7% of his patients |
1.7 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 2.5) |
$12,219.28an average of $160.78 per time performed |
$4,230.92 an average of $55.67 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTInitial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per... + Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day × Service Code: 99222Performed in a facility |
66 times performed, 4% of his services |
5th 59th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
60 patients got this service, 8% of his patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1) |
$19,965.00an average of $302.50 per time performed |
$6,951.78 an average of $105.33 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTInitial hospital inpatient care, typically 30 minutes per... + Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 30 minutes per day × Service Code: 99221Performed in a facility |
50 times performed, 3% of his services |
6th 136th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
49 patients got this service, 7% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1) |
$10,780.00an average of $215.60 per time performed |
$3,863.50 an average of $77.27 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTEstablished patient office or other outpatient visit, typ... + Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 5 minutes × Service Code: 99211Performed in an office |
38 times performed, 2% of his services |
7th 26th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
31 patients got this service, 4% of his patients |
1.2 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 3.1) |
$1,862.00an average of $49.00 per time performed |
$508.06 an average of $13.37 per time performed |
MEDICINERoutine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretat... + Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report × Service Code: 93000Performed in an office |
36 times performed, 2% of his services |
8th 27th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
35 patients got this service, 5% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.1) |
$5,220.00an average of $145.00 per time performed |
$443.16 an average of $12.31 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTSubsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes ... + Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes per day × Service Code: 99233Performed in a facility |
33 times performed, 2% of his services |
9th 6th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
18 patients got this service, 3% of his patients |
1.8 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 2) |
$7,433.91an average of $225.27 per time performed |
$2,644.29 an average of $80.13 per time performed |
MEDICINERoutine electrocardiogram (ekg) using at least 12 leads w... + Routine electrocardiogram (ekg) using at least 12 leads with interpretation and report × Service Code: 93010Performed in a facility |
28 times performed, 2% of his services |
10th 31st most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
28 patients got this service, 4% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.2) |
$1,372.00an average of $49.00 per time performed |
$177.24 an average of $6.33 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTNew patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 4... + New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes × Service Code: 99204Performed in an office |
23 times performed, 1% of his services |
11th 69th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
23 patients got this service, 3% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1) |
$8,067.02an average of $350.74 per time performed |
$2,760.92 an average of $120.04 per time performed |
MEDICINEExercise or drug-induced heart and blood vessel stress te... + Exercise or drug-induced heart and blood vessel stress test with ekg monitoring, physician interpretation and report × Service Code: 93018Performed in a facility |
21 times performed, 1% of his services |
12th 192nd most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
21 patients got this service, 3% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1) |
$4,557.00an average of $217.00 per time performed |
$232.89 an average of $11.09 per time performed |
MEDICINEExercise or drug-induced heart and blood vessel stress te... + Exercise or drug-induced heart and blood vessel stress test with ekg monitoring and physician supervision × Service Code: 93016Performed in a facility |
18 times performed, 0.98% of his services |
13th 214th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
18 patients got this service, 3% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1) |
$2,178.00an average of $121.00 per time performed |
$310.68 an average of $17.26 per time performed |
MEDICINEHeart rhythm symptom-related interpretation of 24-hour ek... + Heart rhythm symptom-related interpretation of 24-hour ekg monitoring up to 30 days × Service Code: 93272Performed in an office |
16 times performed, 0.87% of his services |
14th
most performed service for this provider 5 or fewer providers in this specialty in NC perform this service |
16 patients got this service, 2% of his patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service |
$2,912.00an average of $182.00 per time performed |
$296.64 an average of $18.54 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTHospital observation care typically 50 minutes Service Code: 99219Performed in a facility |
16 times performed, 0.87% of his services |
15th 127th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
15 patients got this service, 2% of his patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1) |
$6,096.00an average of $381.00 per time performed |
$1,670.72 an average of $104.42 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.
Melvin Ray Echols
Average for Internal Medicine 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.