PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1699765271

Howard BrazilMD

CardiologyFairhope, ALI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

1,734

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

2,162

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$110K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 236 Cardiology providers in AL — below median (cohort median 2,950).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

6,043

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$1.1M

Distinct drugs

Brand share

29.5%

Top prescribed drugs

Apixaban391 claims

Atorvastatin Calcium365 claims

Metoprolol Succinate359 claims

Carvedilol342 claims

Furosemide317 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

Final MIPS score

75.5

Quality

67.1

Cost

72.0

Improvement activities

40.0

Promoting interop.

0.0

Payment adjustment

0.02%

Individual

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$415

Payment records

By payment type

Food and Beverage$415

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Howard Brazil'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). 83 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
JACKSON HOSPITAL & CLINIC, INC.	472	1,599
Laboratory Corporation Of America Holdings Clinical Laboratory · Birmingham, AL	119	303
Robert Hutto Diagnostic Radiology · Montgomery, AL	108	282
Gary Scott Diagnostic Radiology · Montgomery, AL	96	259
Bobby Brown Family Practice · Prattville, AL	86	204
LIFESTAR RESPONSE OF ALABAMA, INC.	85	301
Sachi Gupta Internal Medicine · Prattville, AL	84	265
George Wakefield Diagnostic Radiology · Montgomery, AL	69	141
Haynes Ambulance Of Alabama, Inc Ambulance Service Provider · Montgomery, AL	69	137
Richard Sample Emergency Medicine · Montgomery, AL	66	163
Khalid Rasheed Internal Medicine · Prattville, AL	59	181
CUMBIE, WILLIAM	58	211

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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OIG/SAM exclusion screening, sanctions history