PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1780676668

Merle DiamondMD

PRACTICEDIAMOND HEADACHE CLINIC LTDSee all providers at this practice →

Internal MedicineChicago, ILI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

1,307

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

30,528

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$342K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 3,790 Internal Medicine providers in IL — top quintile (cohort median 760).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

5,179

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$1.2M

Distinct drugs

Brand share

25.4%

Top prescribed drugs

Tizanidine Hcl238 claims

Diphenhydramine Hcl213 claims

Galcanezumab-Gnlm179 claims

Memantine Hcl174 claims

Doxepin Hcl164 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

Final MIPS score

21.4

Quality

0.0

Cost

71.3

Improvement activities

0.0

Promoting interop.

0.0

Payment adjustment

-6.43%

Individual

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$97K

Payment records

198

By payment type

Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program$43K

Consulting Fee$37K

Honoraria$7K

Food and Beverage$5K

Travel and Lodging$5K

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Merle Diamond'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). 8 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
Andrew Beatty Psychologist, Clinical · Chicago, IL	60	878
Millennium Health, Llc Clinical Laboratory · San Diego, CA	55	191
Bradley Torphy Family Practice · Chicago, IL	42	220
Alexander Feoktistov Internal Medicine · Northfield, IL	42	293
CENTRAL DUPAGE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION	22	60
Ramona Gupta Interventional Radiology · Chicago, IL	21	121
CHAWLA, KAMAL	18	146
ENDEAVOR HEALTH CLINICAL OPERATIONS	11	62

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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ProviderScore

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