Clinician Utilization Data (NPI:1821070590)

HEALTHCARE PROVIDER: DR. ALEX S METZGER

This is the first set utilization data for clinicians publicly reported.
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NPI:1821070590 DR. ALEX S METZGER

Physician Information
NPI	1821070590
	Unique healthcare provider (clinician) ID assigned by NPPES
PECOS UID	0749207652
	Unique individual clinician ID assigned by PECOS
State of Practice	CA
	Individual clinician's state of practice
Primary medical specialty	HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY
	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
96372	Injection beneath the skin or into muscle for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention	38	268
96375	Injection of different drug or substance into a vein for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention	35	225
96413	Infusion of chemotherapy into a vein up to 1 hour	53	315
J1100	Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg	33	1918
J2469	Injection, palonosetron hcl, 25 mcg	22	660

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