PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1770706343

Laura PontesPA-C

Physician AssistantDallas, TXI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

284

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

361

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$21K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 6,198 Physician Assistant providers in TX — above median (cohort median 254).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

979

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$6.0M

Distinct drugs

Brand share

54.1%

Top prescribed drugs

Ustekinumab165 claims

Diphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine82 claims

Dicyclomine Hcl80 claims

Pantoprazole Sodium72 claims

Adalimumab58 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

Final MIPS score

82.9

Quality

70.2

Cost

72.8

Improvement activities

40.0

Promoting interop.

100.0

Payment adjustment

0.33%

Group

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$12K

Payment records

By payment type

Consulting Fee$9K

Food and Beverage$2K

Travel and Lodging$1K

Education$25

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Laura Pontes'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). 3 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER AT DALLAS	96	386
Bradley Strout Diagnostic Radiology · Dallas, TX	11	31
Richard Batz Diagnostic Radiology · Dallas, 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

Related data on other Healthparse brands

ProviderScore

OIG/SAM exclusion screening, sanctions history