PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1770717266

Bettina Eckard

PRACTICECAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTERSee all providers at this practice →

Nurse PractitionerHickory, NCI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$2K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 7,225 Nurse Practitioner providers in NC — bottom quintile (cohort median 268).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

689

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$461K

Distinct drugs

Brand share

34.7%

Top prescribed drugs

Sevelamer Carbonate253 claims

Sucroferric Oxyhydroxide89 claims

Lanthanum Carbonate59 claims

Ferric Citrate47 claims

Nifedipine43 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

No data available for this provider in 2024.

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$78

Payment records

By payment type

Food and Beverage$78

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Bettina Eckard'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). 9 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
CATAWBA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER	84	161
James Ritter Internal Medicine · Hickory, NC	20	27
Scott Sledge Hospitalist · Hickory, NC	18	54
Charles Scheil Diagnostic Radiology · Hickory, NC	17	26
Ismo Kaariainen Internal Medicine · Boone, NC	16	60
Luke Byrnes Interventional Cardiology · Conover, NC	15	23
Adrian Holtzman Diagnostic Radiology · Hickory, NC	13	20
Dustin Otterberg Physician Assistant · Hickory, NC	13	13
Matthew Dyson Diagnostic Radiology · Hickory, NC	11	15

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.

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