HOSPITAL · CCN 450638
HOUSTON NORTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER
Physician affiliations & referral network
Affiliated physicians
82
External referring physicians
611
Top affiliated specialty
Emergency Medicine
Shared beneficiaries (top referrers)
14,413
SPECIALTY MIX
Specialties among affiliated physicians
12
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AFFILIATED PHYSICIANS
Physicians affiliated with HOUSTON NORTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER (82 total)
From CMS Physician-Facility Affiliations. Showing the first 50 of 82.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Quest Diagnostics Clinical Laboratories Inc | Clinical Laboratory | 2,175 |
| Paul Evans | Diagnostic Radiology | 1,193 |
| TOMBALL TEXAS HOSPITAL COMPANY LLC | — | 1,184 |
| NORTH CYPRESS MEDICAL CENTER OPERATING COMPANY, LTD. | — | 957 |
| Bernardo De La Guardia | Cardiology | 641 |
| Philip Katz | Diagnostic Radiology | 627 |
| NEW MEDICAL HORIZONS II, LTD. | — | 579 |
| Larry Grissom | Diagnostic Radiology | 554 |
| Ravi Bikkina | Diagnostic Radiology | 498 |
| Hammad Qureshi | Internal Medicine | 425 |
| Mohsin Bajwa | Pulmonary Disease | 424 |
| Elizabeth Ramos-Salazar | Infectious Disease | 419 |
| Montgomery County Hospital District | Ambulance Service Provider | 413 |
| Andrew Larkin | Emergency Medicine | 411 |
| Bruce Lachterman | Cardiology | 387 |
| TRIUMPH HOSPITAL OF NORTH HOUSTON, LP | — | 381 |
| NORTHWEST COMMUNITY HEALTH, INC | — | 380 |
| Faisal Arain | Cardiology | 372 |
| Ruben Veloz | Emergency Medicine | 370 |
| Sandeep Amesur | Diagnostic Radiology | 353 |
| Chacko Alexander | Cardiology | 344 |
| BROCKTON HOSPITAL, INC. | — | 342 |
| CY-FAIR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | — | 340 |
| Ramegowda Belakere | Family Practice | 325 |
| SUTTON, PHILLIP | — | 319 |
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 | 169 |
| 291HEART FAILURE AND SHOCK WITH MCC | 53 |
| 280ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, DISCHARGED ALIVE WITH MCC | 49 |
| 698OTHER KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT DIAGNOSES WITH MCC | 35 |
| 682RENAL FAILURE WITH MCC | 34 |
| 640MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITH MCC | 32 |
CROSS-REFERENCE