What is Richard Heater's specialty?

Richard Heater (NPI 1164523569) is a Medicare-billing provider whose primary specialty is Orthopedic Surgery in Sacramento, CA.

Where does Richard Heater practice?

Richard Heater practices in Sacramento, CA, based on the location reported in the CMS Medicare provider datasets for NPI 1164523569.

How much does Medicare pay Richard Heater?

Richard Heater (NPI 1164523569) received approximately $12K in total Medicare Part B payments, serving 63 beneficiaries, per the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners dataset.

PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1164523569

Richard HeaterM.D.

Orthopedic SurgerySacramento, CAI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$6K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 1,921 Orthopedic Surgery providers in CA — bottom quintile (cohort median 1,100).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

No data available for this provider in 2024.

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

No data available for this provider in 2024.

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$49

Payment records

By payment type

Food and Beverage$49

Top paying entities

Food and Beverage$49

FACILITY AFFILIATIONS

Hospital & Facility Affiliations (2)

CCN 050017

Hospital

CCN 050108

Hospital

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Richard Heater's patients come from & go

Directional shared-patient flow from Medicare claims — who sends patients to this provider (inbound) and where this provider's patients go next (outbound). 0 inbound referrers · 4 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

No inbound pairs above the suppression threshold.

Refers patients to

Outbound — where patients go next

Physician	Patients	Visits
DIGNITY HEALTH	32	68
Unilab Corporation Clinical Laboratory · Sacramento, CA	32	63
Timothy Mar Orthopedic Surgery · Sacramento, CA	16	44
SUTTER VALLEY HOSPITALS	15	43

Source: CMS Physician Shared Patient Patterns (30-day window, Medicare FFS). Direction = a beneficiary seen by the first provider, then the second, within 30 days; a proxy for referral, not a documented referral. Pairs with fewer than 11 shared beneficiaries are suppressed.

CROSS-REFERENCE

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ProviderScore

OIG/SAM exclusion screening, sanctions history