PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1396779161

John WaitsM.D.

General SurgeryNorthport, ALI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

130

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

680

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$33K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 346 General Surgery providers in AL — top quintile (cohort median 338).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

322

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$300K

Distinct drugs

Brand share

68.9%

Top prescribed drugs

Dalbavancin Hcl48 claims

Daptomycin42 claims

Dextrose 5 % In Water42 claims

0.9 % Sodium Chloride41 claims

Doxycycline Hyclate37 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

No data available for this provider in 2024.

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$544

Payment records

By payment type

Food and Beverage$544

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where John Waits'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). 29 inbound referrers · 68 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
SPEED, JAMES	38	234
THE BIBB COUNTY HEALTHCARE AUTHORITY	31	512
Northstar Ems, Inc. Ambulance Service Provider · Tuscaloosa, AL	27	542
Robert Hamiter Diagnostic Radiology · Tuscaloosa, AL	27	137
Laboratory Corporation Of America Holdings Clinical Laboratory · Birmingham, AL	27	154
AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH OF ALABAMA, LLC	23	171
CAHABA MEDICAL CARE FOUNDATION	23	226
THE DCH HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY	23	179
William Simpson Thoracic Surgery · Tuscaloosa, AL	22	263
SHEPPARD, ARTHUR	21	156
Bernard Veillon Diagnostic Radiology · Tuscaloosa, AL	21	105
Margaret Guarisco Diagnostic Radiology · Tuscaloosa, AL	21	108

Refers patients to

Outbound — where patients go next

Physician	Patients	Visits
THE DCH HEALTHCARE AUTHORITY	193	8,096
C Sneckenberger Diagnostic Radiology · Tuscaloosa, AL	41	359
SPEED, JAMES	35	200
Jason Bearden Diagnostic Radiology · Tuscaloosa, AL	31	296
MILLER, GRADY	31	210
Northstar Ems, Inc. Ambulance Service Provider · Tuscaloosa, AL	30	382
Jerry Lushington Diagnostic Radiology · Tuscaloosa, AL	29	196
John Waits Family Practice · Centreville, AL	29	463
Robert Hamiter Diagnostic Radiology · Tuscaloosa, AL	27	164
David Smith Diagnostic Radiology · Tuscaloosa, AL	27	167
Cunningham Pathology, Llc Clinical Laboratory · Birmingham, AL	25	115
Joshua Argo General Surgery · Tuscaloosa, AL	22	361

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.

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