PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1609957265

Melody CarantoRN, GNP, ANP

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Nurse PractitionerHouston, TXI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

101

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

199

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$18K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 14,200 Nurse Practitioner providers in TX — below median (cohort median 248).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

137

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$29K

Distinct drugs

Brand share

24.8%

Top prescribed drugs

Apixaban34 claims

Ondansetron Hcl24 claims

Lorazepam21 claims

Dexamethasone20 claims

Gabapentin13 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

Final MIPS score

84.3

Quality

70.8

Cost

67.6

Improvement activities

40.0

Promoting interop.

100.0

Payment adjustment

0.39%

Group

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$341

Payment records

By payment type

Food and Beverage$341

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Melody Caranto'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). 4 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M. D. ANDERSON CANCER CENTER	64	248
Katherine Pisters Medical Oncology · Houston, TX	35	159
Girish Shroff Diagnostic Radiology · Houston, TX	14	31
Gregory Gladish Diagnostic Radiology · Houston, TX	11	18

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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