Clinician Utilization Data (NPI:1124026554)

HEALTHCARE PROVIDER: DR. HOWARD L SOFEN

This is the first set utilization data for clinicians publicly reported.
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NPI:1124026554 DR. HOWARD L SOFEN

Physician Information
NPI	1124026554
	Unique healthcare provider (clinician) ID assigned by NPPES
PECOS UID	2365430600
	Unique individual clinician ID assigned by PECOS
State of Practice	CA
	Individual clinician's state of practice
Primary medical specialty	DERMATOLOGY
	Primary medical specialty reported by the individual clinician in the selected PECOS enrollment

Clinician Utilization Data
HCPCS Procedural Code	HCPCS Code Description	Beneficiary Count	Service Count
11102	Tangential biopsy of single skin lesion	19	19
17000	Destruction of skin growth	45	61
17003	Destruction of 2-14 skin growths	38	295
17110	Destruction of up to 14 skin growths	20	30
17311	Removal and microscopic examination of growth of the head, neck, hands, feet, or genitals (first stage, up to 5 tissue blocks)	32	38
88305	Pathology examination of tissue using a microscope, intermediate complexity	43	66

Clinician Utilization Metadata
HCPCS Procedural Code	Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) procedural code billed by the individual clinician
HCPCS Code Description	Description of the HCPCS code for the specific medical service furnished by the individual clinician. HCPCS descriptions associated with CPT codes are consumer friendly descriptions provided by the AMA. CPT Consumer Friendly Descriptors are lay synonyms for CPT descriptors that are intended to help healthcare consumers who are not medical professionals understand clinical procedures on bills and patient portals. CPT Consumer Friendly Descriptors should not be used for clinical coding or documentation. All other descriptions are CMS Level II descriptions provided in long form. Due to variable length restrictions, the CMS Level II descriptions have been truncated to 256 bytes. As a result, the same HCPCS description can be associated with more than one HCPCS code. For complete CMS Level II descriptions, visit https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/HCPCSReleaseCodeSets/ Alpha-Numeric-HCPCS.html.
Beneficiary Count	The number of eligible beneficiaries that received the service or procedure identified by the individual clinician's HCPCS code
Service Count	Frequency of individual clinician's performance of the associated HCPCS code within the specified calendar year