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, $471 per patient in 2015.
They performed about 4 services per patient. Here’s how this provider compares.

Number of
Patients
979
Rank: 142nd
out of 444 providers in this state & specialty
Services
Performed
3,527
Rank: 147th
out of 444 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Services
Per Patient
3.6 This Provider
Avg 4.4
Total Paid
by Medicare
$310K
Rank: 153rd
out of 444 providers in this state & specialty
Avg Paid
Per Patient
$316 This Provider
Avg $471

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 31 different services in 2015
(15 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
MEDICINE

Eye and medical examination for diagnosis and treatment, ... +

Eye and medical examination for diagnosis and treatment, established patient, 1 or more visits ×

Service Code: 92014
Performed in an office
544
times performed,
15% of her services

1st 1st

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

516
patients got this service, 53% of her patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.2)
$74,528.00an average of $137.00 per time performed $46,805.76
an average of $86.04 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Eye and medical examination for diagnosis and treatment, ... +

Eye and medical examination for diagnosis and treatment, established patient ×

Service Code: 92012
Performed in an office
393
times performed,
11% of her services

2nd 3rd

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

318
patients got this service, 32% of her patients
1.2
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.5)
$36,549.00an average of $93.00 per time performed $23,359.92
an average of $59.44 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Measurement of field of vision during daylight conditions +

Measurement of field of vision during daylight conditions ×

Service Code: 92083
Performed in an office
381
times performed,
11% of her services

3rd 12th

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

352
patients got this service, 36% of her patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.1)
$45,720.00an average of $120.00 per time performed $15,057.12
an average of $39.52 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Examination of cornea and iris using lens device and slit... +

Examination of cornea and iris using lens device and slit lamp ×

Service Code: 92020
Performed in an office
350
times performed,
10% of her services

4th 23rd

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

323
patients got this service, 33% of her patients
1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.1)
$22,050.00an average of $63.00 per time performed $6,450.50
an average of $18.43 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Measurement of corneal curvature and depth of eye

Service Code: 92136
Performed in an office
310
times performed,
9% of her services

5th 9th

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

200
patients got this service, 20% of her patients
1.5
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.5)
$57,449.20an average of $185.32 per time performed $14,225.90
an average of $45.89 per time performed
medical
EYE

Removal of cataract with insertion of lens

Service Code: 66984
Performed in a facility
277
times performed,
8% of her services

6th 8th

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

180
patients got this service, 18% of her patients
1.5
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.5)
$831,000.00an average of $3,000.00 per time performed $121,392.48
an average of $438.24 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Diagnostic imaging of optic nerve of eye

Service Code: 92133
Performed in an office
271
times performed,
8% of her services

7th 13th

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

267
patients got this service, 27% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.1)
$27,100.00an average of $100.00 per time performed $7,745.18
an average of $28.58 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Photography of the retina

Service Code: 92250
Performed in an office
218
times performed,
6% of her services

8th 16th

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

216
patients got this service, 22% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.2)
$23,108.00an average of $106.00 per time performed $11,074.40
an average of $50.80 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Diagnostic imaging of retina

Service Code: 92134
Performed in an office
208
times performed,
6% of her services

9th 2nd

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

205
patients got this service, 21% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 2.3)
$20,800.00an average of $100.00 per time performed $6,215.04
an average of $29.88 per time performed
medical
MEDICINE

Eye and medical examination for diagnosis and treatment, ... +

Eye and medical examination for diagnosis and treatment, new patient, 1 or more visits ×

Service Code: 92004
Performed in an office
146
times performed,
4% of her services

10th 17th

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

146
patients got this service, 15% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$27,010.00an average of $185.00 per time performed $15,002.96
an average of $102.76 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
139
times performed,
4% of her services

11th 11th

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

133
patients got this service, 14% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.3)
$16,680.00an average of $120.00 per time performed $6,074.30
an average of $43.70 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
85
times performed,
2% of her services

12th 7th

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

81
patients got this service, 8% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.5)
$7,650.00an average of $90.00 per time performed $2,224.45
an average of $26.17 per time performed
medical
EYE

Laser repair to improve eye fluid flow, 1 or more sessions +

Laser repair to improve eye fluid flow, 1 or more sessions ×

Service Code: 65855
Performed in an office
72
times performed,
2% of her services

13th 43rd

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

47
patients got this service, 5% of her patients
1.5
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.3)
$88,200.00an average of $1,225.00 per time performed $17,427.60
an average of $242.05 per time performed
medical
EYE

Removal of recurring cataract in lens capsule using laser +

Removal of recurring cataract in lens capsule using laser ×

Service Code: 66821
Performed in an office
44
times performed,
1% of her services

14th 24th

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

36
patients got this service, 4% of her patients
1.2
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.2)
$57,200.00an average of $1,300.00 per time performed $10,871.96
an average of $247.09 per time performed
medical
RADIOLOGY

Ultrasound of corneal structure and measurement

Service Code: 76514
Performed in an office
34
times performed,
0.96% of her services

15th 29th

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

34
patients got this service, 3% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$1,700.00an average of $50.00 per time performed $345.10
an average of $10.15 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
21
times performed,
0.6% of her services

16th 33rd

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

21
patients got this service, 2% of her patients
1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1)
$2,940.00an average of $140.00 per time performed $1,105.02
an average of $52.62 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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Average for Ophthalmology 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.

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