PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1699747634

Sam BufferM.D.

CardiologyPittsburgh, PAI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

930

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

1,120

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$55K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 1,062 Cardiology providers in PA — below median (cohort median 1,995).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

11,737

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$2.3M

Distinct drugs

Brand share

26.6%

Top prescribed drugs

Apixaban995 claims

Atorvastatin Calcium971 claims

Rosuvastatin Calcium969 claims

Metoprolol Tartrate716 claims

Metoprolol Succinate698 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

Final MIPS score

80.9

Quality

61.9

Cost

74.6

Improvement activities

40.0

Promoting interop.

100.0

Payment adjustment

0.25%

Group

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$18

Payment records

By payment type

Food and Beverage$18

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Sam Buffer'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). 51 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
UPMC PASSAVANT	411	2,153
Raucheline Akindele Diagnostic Radiology · Pittsburgh, PA	64	156
Ubaid Akhtar Diagnostic Radiology · Pittsburgh, PA	59	160
Balasubramanya Rangaswamy Diagnostic Radiology · Cleveland, OH	49	117
Santosh Pandit Cardiology · Pittsburgh, PA	35	91
Lance Williams Diagnostic Radiology · Lubbock, TX	34	76
Sivasubramaniam Kedarnath Cardiology · Franklin, PA	29	90
Mccandless-Franklin Park Ambulance Authority Ambulance Service Provider · Wexford, PA	27	53
BUTLER HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS	27	219
Evan Adelstein Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Albany, NY	25	105
WEST PENN ALLEGHENY HEALTH SYSTEM INC.	25	92
Chandrasekhara Durgampudi Hospitalist · Houston, TX	25	90

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