PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1528017951

John HicksMD

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CardiologyMyrtle Beach, SCI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

6,001

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

10,622

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$845K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 243 Cardiology providers in SC — top quintile (cohort median 3,582).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

7,471

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$1.4M

Distinct drugs

Brand share

20.7%

Top prescribed drugs

Losartan Potassium774 claims

Apixaban592 claims

Metoprolol Tartrate590 claims

Metoprolol Succinate408 claims

Amlodipine Besylate306 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

Final MIPS score

92.5

Quality

100.0

Cost

75.1

Improvement activities

40.0

Promoting interop.

0.0

Payment adjustment

0.74%

Group

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$84

Payment records

By payment type

Food and Beverage$84

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where John Hicks'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). 21 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
GRAND STRAND REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER LLC	155	694
Telerhythmics, Llc Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF) · Collierville, TN	96	291
MCCAMPBELL, EDWIN	80	395
CONWAY HOSPITAL, INC.	37	99
NPI 1063498558	36	101
Christopher Daub Diagnostic Radiology · Murrells Inlet, SC	28	77
Paul Zdybel Diagnostic Radiology · Conway, SC	26	65
David Anderson Diagnostic Radiology · Georgetown, SC	23	43
Richard Wunder Diagnostic Radiology · Conway, SC	23	59
John Daly Diagnostic Radiology · Conway, SC	22	61
Jimmy Kontos Interventional Cardiology · Myrtle Beach, SC	19	59
Jeffrey Lackey Diagnostic Radiology · Conway, SC	16	34

Refers patients to

Outbound — where patients go next

No outbound pairs above the suppression threshold.

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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