Clinician Utilization Data (NPI:1174595508)

HEALTHCARE PROVIDER: MICHAEL L HOWARD

This is the first set utilization data for clinicians publicly reported.
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Physician Information
NPI	1174595508
	Unique healthcare provider (clinician) ID assigned by NPPES
PECOS UID	8729036959
	Unique individual clinician ID assigned by PECOS
State of Practice	NJ
	Individual clinician's state of practice
Primary medical specialty	UROLOGY
	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
36415	Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample	313	440
51798	Ultrasound measurement of bladder capacity after voiding	101	126
52000	Diagnostic examination of the bladder and bladder canal (urethra) using an endoscope	25	31
52332	Insertion of stent in urinary duct (ureter) using an endoscope	13	13
55700	Biopsy of prostate gland	24	24
76872	Ultrasound of rectum	24	24
76942	Ultrasonic guidance imaging supervision and interpretation for insertion of needle	22	22
81002	Urinalysis, manual test	11	11
81003	Automated urinalysis test	602	1035
G0452	Molecular pathology procedure; physician interpretation and report	126	205

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