PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1558750794

Kara Howard

PRACTICECOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERSee all providers at this practice →

Nurse PractitionerButte, MTI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$736

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 689 Nurse Practitioner providers in MT — below median (cohort median 272).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

3,064

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$225K

Distinct drugs

Brand share

20.9%

Top prescribed drugs

Atorvastatin Calcium270 claims

Lisinopril225 claims

Levothyroxine Sodium160 claims

Gabapentin117 claims

Metformin Hcl101 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

No data available for this provider in 2024.

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

No data available for this provider in 2024.

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Kara Howard'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). 7 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
VALLEY-WIDE HEALTH SYSTEMS, INC	105	268
NPI 1396718953	31	46
Robert Holstead Physician Assistant · La Junta, CO	22	32
Bradley Dempsey Family Practice · Pueblo, CO	20	41
James Brady Emergency Medicine · Lakewood, CO	15	21
PARKVIEW MEDICAL CENTER, INC.	12	21
Richard Shand Internal Medicine · La Junta, CO	11	14

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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