Clinician Utilization Data (NPI:1780028332)

HEALTHCARE PROVIDER: MICHAEL KENNETH SCHOWALTER

This is the first set utilization data for clinicians publicly reported.
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Physician Information
NPI	1780028332
	Unique healthcare provider (clinician) ID assigned by NPPES
PECOS UID	9335413509
	Unique individual clinician ID assigned by PECOS
State of Practice	IL
	Individual clinician's state of practice
Primary medical specialty	PATHOLOGY
	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	30	31
17000	Destruction of skin growth	59	78
17003	Destruction of 2-14 skin growths	41	171
17110	Destruction of up to 14 skin growths	40	55
88304	Pathology examination of tissue using a microscope, moderately low complexity	400	462
88305	Pathology examination of tissue using a microscope, intermediate complexity	6498	10300
88313	Special stained specimen slides to examine tissue including interpretation and report	25	25
88341	Special stained specimen slides to examine tissue	155	268
88342	Tissue or cell analysis by immunologic technique	432	509

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