Clinician Utilization Data (NPI:1568524023)

HEALTHCARE PROVIDER: MELINDA RUTH ASFAW

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Physician Information
NPI	1568524023
	Unique healthcare provider (clinician) ID assigned by NPPES
PECOS UID	3779644000
	Unique individual clinician ID assigned by PECOS
State of Practice	NC
	Individual clinician's state of practice
Primary medical specialty	PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT
	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	147	176
11103	Tangential biopsy of additional skin lesion	52	92
17000	Destruction of skin growth	126	168
17003	Destruction of 2-14 skin growths	86	496
17110	Destruction of up to 14 skin growths	100	125
J3301	Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg	12	20

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