PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1740251966

Vernon HunterM.D.

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CardiologyHuntsville, ALI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

2,888

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

3,354

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$115K

Peer benchmark

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

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

8,711

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$1.9M

Distinct drugs

Brand share

29.5%

Top prescribed drugs

Metoprolol Succinate782 claims

Apixaban718 claims

Spironolactone606 claims

Carvedilol532 claims

Atorvastatin Calcium529 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

Final MIPS score

88.3

Quality

82.8

Cost

0.0

Improvement activities

40.0

Promoting interop.

83.1

Payment adjustment

0.56%

APM Entity

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$1K

Payment records

By payment type

Food and Beverage$1K

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Vernon Hunter'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). 97 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
THE HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE	1,379	3,807
Shi-Chi Cheng Cardiology · Huntsville, AL	261	633
Muhammad Khan Cardiology · Huntsville, AL	182	419
HUNTSVILLE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES, INC.	163	294
James Murphy Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Huntsville, AL	136	252
Laboratory Corporation Of America Holdings Clinical Laboratory · Birmingham, AL	115	222
Gordon Cash Internal Medicine · Huntsville, AL	107	262
WRIGHT, THOMAS	89	197
CRESTWOOD HEALTHCARE LP	85	193
MARSHALL MEDICAL CENTER SOUTH	79	274
Timothy Baker Diagnostic Radiology · Huntsville, AL	75	135
Joshua Krasnow Interventional Cardiology · Exeter, NH	74	176

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