PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1366671497

Nathan LighthizerO.D.

PRACTICENORTHEASTERN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRYSee all providers at this practice →

OptometryTahlequah, OKI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$941

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 600 Optometry providers in OK — bottom quintile (cohort median 418).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

No data available for this provider in 2024.

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

Final MIPS score

85.4

Quality

72.8

Cost

76.8

Improvement activities

40.0

Promoting interop.

98.0

Payment adjustment

0.44%

Group

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$309K

Payment records

223

By payment type

Food and Beverage$119K

Honoraria$65K

Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program$43K

Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program$38K

Consulting Fee$37K

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Nathan Lighthizer'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). 3 inbound referrers · 4 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
CHEROKEE NATION	44	108
NORTHEASTERN HEALTH SYSTEM	39	68
KING, MARY	30	51

Refers patients to

Outbound — where patients go next

Physician	Patients	Visits
Richard Castillo Ophthalmology · Tahlequah, OK	39	133
CHEROKEE NATION	38	124
NORTHEASTERN HEALTH SYSTEM	22	28
KING, MARY	20	24

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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