Clinician Utilization Data (NPI:1417067893)

HEALTHCARE PROVIDER: DR. ALEXANDER R. SHIKHMAN

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NPI:1417067893 DR. ALEXANDER R. SHIKHMAN

Physician Information
NPI	1417067893
	Unique healthcare provider (clinician) ID assigned by NPPES
PECOS UID	9335241843
	Unique individual clinician ID assigned by PECOS
State of Practice	CA
	Individual clinician's state of practice
Primary medical specialty	RHEUMATOLOGY
	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
20550	Injections of tendon sheath, ligament, or muscle membrane	42	263
20611	Aspiration and/or injection of major joint or joint capsule with recording and reporting using ultrasound guidance	73	440
36415	Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample	156	301
76942	Ultrasonic guidance imaging supervision and interpretation for insertion of needle	41	171
95816	Measurement and recording of brain wave (eeg) activity, awake and drowsy	16	17
96132	Neuropsychological testing evaluation by qualified health care professional, first 60 minutes	16	17
96365	Infusion into a vein for therapy, prevention, or diagnosis up to 1 hour	23	221
96372	Injection beneath the skin or into muscle for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention	65	294
J3301	Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg	52	600

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