PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1619053659

Robert HigginsonP.A.

Physician AssistantRichmond, VAI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$3K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 3,062 Physician Assistant providers in VA — bottom quintile (cohort median 318).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

3,141

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$5.5M

Distinct drugs

Brand share

60.5%

Top prescribed drugs

Bictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala578 claims

Dolutegravir Sodium317 claims

Darunavir/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alaf147 claims

Darunavir/Cobicistat141 claims

Emtricitabine/Tenofov Alafenam139 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

Final MIPS score

84.0

Quality

69.9

Cost

77.4

Improvement activities

40.0

Promoting interop.

99.0

Payment adjustment

0.38%

Group

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$12K

Payment records

By payment type

Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program$9K

Travel and Lodging$3K

Food and Beverage$970

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Robert Higginson'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
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM AUTHORITY	71	297
Veronica Ayala-Sims Internal Medicine · Richmond, VA	32	53
Gonzalo Bearman Infectious Disease · Richmond, VA	27	37
Daniel Nixon Infectious Disease · Richmond, VA	25	43

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

Related data on other Healthparse brands

ProviderScore

OIG/SAM exclusion screening, sanctions history