Clinician Utilization Data (NPI:1932279163)

HEALTHCARE PROVIDER: DOUGLAS MARK HERSHKOWITZ

This is the first set utilization data for clinicians publicly reported.
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NPI:1932279163 DOUGLAS MARK HERSHKOWITZ

Physician Information
NPI	1932279163
	Unique healthcare provider (clinician) ID assigned by NPPES
PECOS UID	8729050778
	Unique individual clinician ID assigned by PECOS
State of Practice	FL
	Individual clinician's state of practice
Primary medical specialty	NEUROSURGERY
	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
22853	Insertion of device into intervertebral disc space of spine and fusion of vertebrae	25	46
27096	Injection procedure into sacroiliac joint for anesthetic or steroid	120	151
64483	Injections of anesthetic and/or steroid drug into lower or sacral spine nerve root using imaging guidance	87	110
64493	Injections of lower or sacral spine facet joint using imaging guidance	144	186
64494	Injections of lower or sacral spine facet joint using imaging guidance	143	184
64635	Destruction of lower or sacral spinal facet joint nerves using imaging guidance	43	49
G0180	Physician certification for medicare-covered home health services under a home health plan of care (patient not present), including contacts with home health agency and review of reports of patient status required by physicians to affirm the initial implem	43	43

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