Clinician Utilization Data (NPI:1497935456)

HEALTHCARE PROVIDER: DR. RICARDO ALVARADO

This is the first set utilization data for clinicians publicly reported.
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NPI:1497935456 DR. RICARDO ALVARADO

Physician Information
NPI	1497935456
	Unique healthcare provider (clinician) ID assigned by NPPES
PECOS UID	4789865791
	Unique individual clinician ID assigned by PECOS
State of Practice	TX
	Individual clinician's state of practice
Primary medical specialty	PAIN MANAGEMENT
	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
20611	Aspiration and/or injection of major joint or joint capsule with recording and reporting using ultrasound guidance	11	22
64483	Injections of anesthetic and/or steroid drug into lower or sacral spine nerve root using imaging guidance	33	57
76942	Ultrasonic guidance imaging supervision and interpretation for insertion of needle	22	33
96365	Infusion into a vein for therapy, prevention, or diagnosis up to 1 hour	25	327
96372	Injection beneath the skin or into muscle for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention	15	18
96375	Injection of different drug or substance into a vein for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention	25	478
J1100	Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg	14	260

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