What is Nizar Issa's specialty?

Nizar Issa (NPI 1609096577) is a Medicare-billing provider whose primary specialty is Pulmonary Disease in Forrest City, AR.

Where does Nizar Issa practice?

Nizar Issa practices in Forrest City, AR, based on the location reported in the CMS Medicare provider datasets for NPI 1609096577.

How much does Medicare pay Nizar Issa?

Nizar Issa (NPI 1609096577) received approximately $78K in total Medicare Part B payments, serving 442 beneficiaries, per the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners dataset.

PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1609096577

Nizar IssaM.D

Pulmonary DiseaseForrest City, ARI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

1,029

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

1,277

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$77K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 77 Pulmonary Disease providers in AR — below median (cohort median 1,528).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

2,633

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$1.3M

Distinct drugs

Brand share

90.1%

Top prescribed drugs

Fluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter801 claims

Umeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr479 claims

Albuterol Sulfate470 claims

Fluticasone/Vilanterol174 claims

Fluticasone Propionate105 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

Final MIPS score

93.1

Quality

93.2

Cost

77.4

Improvement activities

40.0

Promoting interop.

100.0

Payment adjustment

0.76%

Individual

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$611

Payment records

By payment type

Food and Beverage$611

Top paying entities

Food and Beverage$611

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Nizar Issa'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
SHARP, MARK	134	490
Laboratory Corporation Of America Clinical Laboratory · Dallas, TX	44	118
Aaron Mitchell Family Practice · Marion, AR	40	182
Bennett Rudorfer Interventional Cardiology · Winchester, TN	35	87
WEBB, DAN	25	125
Jama Davis Nurse Practitioner · Marion, AR	24	49
Melissa Looney Nurse Practitioner · West Memphis, AR	19	32
Trent Pierce Family Practice · West Memphis, AR	18	189
Lance Harrell Nurse Practitioner · West Memphis, AR	13	75
Julie Caldwell Optometry · West Memphis, AR	13	25
Sudesh Banaji Internal Medicine · Forrest City, AR	13	99
HOROWITZ, BRIAN	13	25

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.

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