HOSPITAL · CCN 430027
SANFORD USD MEDICAL CENTER
Physician affiliations & referral network
Affiliated physicians
400
External referring physicians
880
Top affiliated specialty
Nurse Practitioner
Shared beneficiaries (top referrers)
20,366
SPECIALTY MIX
Specialties among affiliated physicians
89
52
30
30
27
16
15
14
10
9
8
7
AFFILIATED PHYSICIANS
Physicians affiliated with SANFORD USD MEDICAL CENTER (400 total)
From CMS Physician-Facility Affiliations. Showing the first 50 of 400.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| SANFORD HEALTH NETWORK | — | 1,542 |
| Meredith Hayes | Diagnostic Radiology | 1,368 |
| SANFORD HEALTH NETWORK | — | 1,180 |
| Patrick Kelly | Vascular Surgery | 1,177 |
| David Bean | Diagnostic Radiology | 1,057 |
| SANFORD HEALTH NETWORK | — | 1,031 |
| KINGMAN HEALTHCARE, INC | — | 1,011 |
| Dana Brandys | Nephrology | 905 |
| SIOUX FALLS AMBULANCE INC | — | 897 |
| SANFORD HEALTH NETWORK | — | 864 |
| Kelly Steffen | Cardiology | 847 |
| Ross Bacon | Pulmonary Disease | 837 |
| HURLEY, TIMOTHY | — | 803 |
| Khalil Yousef | Interventional Radiology | 773 |
| Richard Clark | Cardiology | 746 |
| John Palmer | Endocrinology | 741 |
| AVERA QUEEN OF PEACE | — | 576 |
| Allen Funk | Internal Medicine | 558 |
| Christopher Stanton | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | 523 |
| HEART HOSPITAL OF SOUTH DAKOTA LLC | — | 499 |
| Arleigh Trainor | Emergency Medicine | 498 |
| Candace Zeigler | Internal Medicine | 492 |
| Michael Shirley | Hospitalist | 489 |
| David Zeigler | Internal Medicine | 477 |
| Richard Hardie | Internal Medicine | 475 |
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 |
|---|---|
| 871SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITH MCC | 290 |
| 291HEART FAILURE AND SHOCK WITH MCC | 190 |
| 378GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE WITH CC | 144 |
| 193SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH MCC | 138 |
| 280ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, DISCHARGED ALIVE WITH MCC | 135 |
| 267ENDOVASCULAR CARDIAC VALVE REPLACEMENT AND SUPPLEMENT PROCEDURES WITHOUT MCC | 133 |
| 177RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 132 |
CROSS-REFERENCE