HOSPITAL · CCN 010092
DCH REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
Physician affiliations & referral network
TUSCALOOSA, ALFY 2025
Affiliated physicians
233
External referring physicians
1,168
Top affiliated specialty
Nurse Practitioner
Shared beneficiaries (top referrers)
64,436
SPECIALTY MIX
Specialties among affiliated physicians
37
31
27
20
19
14
11
6
5
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AFFILIATED PHYSICIANS
Physicians affiliated with DCH REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER (233 total)
From CMS Physician-Facility Affiliations. Showing the first 50 of 233.
REFERRAL NETWORK
Who refers patients here
External physicians who share patients into this hospital's affiliated providers, ranked by shared Medicare beneficiaries.
| Referring physician | Specialty | Shared beneficiaries |
|---|---|---|
| Northstar Ems, Inc. | Ambulance Service Provider | 7,201 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM | — | 6,359 |
| Laboratory Corporation Of America Holdings | Clinical Laboratory | 5,685 |
| SPEED, JAMES | — | 4,639 |
| Louis Lucas | Diagnostic Radiology | 3,752 |
| Elizabeth Caldwell | Diagnostic Radiology | 3,448 |
| SHEPPARD, ARTHUR | — | 3,149 |
| Mathew Merritt | Diagnostic Radiology | 3,113 |
| VAUM, RICHARD | — | 3,103 |
| SOLSTAS LAB PARTNERS GROUP LLC | — | 3,092 |
| KING, CHARLES | — | 2,802 |
| SHAMBLIN, RICHARD | — | 1,986 |
| Sunil Chandra | Internal Medicine | 1,786 |
| Lovdie Lewis | Interventional Cardiology | 1,645 |
| Elizabeth Smith | Family Practice | 1,521 |
| Nicholas Vetrano | Emergency Medicine | 1,442 |
| James Barnett | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | 1,361 |
| Shailaja Chidella | Internal Medicine | 1,334 |
| John Dubay | Hematology-Oncology | 1,177 |
| MOTLEY, REGINALD | — | 1,122 |
| Cristi Vaughn | Emergency Medicine | 1,086 |
| Leonard Jones | Internal Medicine | 958 |
| AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH OF ALABAMA, LLC | — | 909 |
| Carson Penkava | Emergency Medicine | 892 |
| Richard Jones | Rheumatology | 874 |
Source: CMS Physician Shared Patient Patterns (30-day window, Medicare FFS). A directional edge is a proxy for referral, not a documented referral; pairs below 11 shared beneficiaries are suppressed.
CASE MIX
Top procedures by volume
Highest-volume MS-DRGs from CMS inpatient claims (latest reporting year per code).
| MS-DRG | Discharges |
|---|---|
| 291HEART FAILURE AND SHOCK WITH MCC | 303 |
| 871SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITH MCC | 303 |
| 193SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH MCC | 128 |
| 177RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 116 |
| 190CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE WITH MCC | 102 |
| 690KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 93 |
CROSS-REFERENCE