Clinician Utilization Data (NPI:1972923761)

HEALTHCARE PROVIDER: DR. DONALD JERARD HIGGINS

This is the first set utilization data for clinicians publicly reported.
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Physician Information
NPI	1972923761
	Unique healthcare provider (clinician) ID assigned by NPPES
PECOS UID	6002032000
	Unique individual clinician ID assigned by PECOS
State of Practice	LA
	Individual clinician's state of practice
Primary medical specialty	FAMILY PRACTICE
	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
11042	Removal of skin and tissue first 20 sq cm or less	25	61
36415	Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample	171	357
71046	X-ray of chest, 2 views	19	20
81003	Automated urinalysis test	26	28
93000	Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report	19	20
96372	Injection beneath the skin or into muscle for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention	40	100
97597	Removal of tissue from wounds per session	26	73
G0008	Administration of influenza virus vaccine	53	55
G0009	Administration of pneumococcal vaccine	11	11
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	18	18
J1100	Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg	19	84

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