What is Richard Ehlers's specialty?

Richard Ehlers (NPI 1821098526) is a Medicare-billing provider whose primary specialty is Surgical Oncology in Houston, TX.

Where does Richard Ehlers practice?

Richard Ehlers practices in Houston, TX, based on the location reported in the CMS Medicare provider datasets for NPI 1821098526.

How much does Medicare pay Richard Ehlers?

Richard Ehlers (NPI 1821098526) received approximately $26K in total Medicare Part B payments, serving 52 beneficiaries, per the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners dataset.

PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1821098526

Richard EhlersM.D.

Surgical OncologyHouston, TXI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$4K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 135 Surgical Oncology providers in TX — bottom quintile (cohort median 261).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

No data available for this provider in 2024.

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

Final MIPS score

84.3

Quality

70.8

Cost

67.6

Improvement activities

40.0

Promoting interop.

100.0

Payment adjustment

0.39%

Group

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$4K

Payment records

By payment type

Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program$4K

Top paying entities

Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program$4K

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Richard Ehlers'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). 10 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M. D. ANDERSON CANCER CENTER	129	1,172
CHCA CLEAR LAKE LP	43	218
Amy Hassan Hematology-Oncology · Houston, TX	34	218
Celyne Bueno Hume Internal Medicine · Nassau Bay, TX	31	156
Quest Diagnostics Clinical Laboratories Inc Clinical Laboratory · Houston, TX	19	40
GILLESPIE, JOHN	17	63
Erin Hernandez Physician Assistant · Houston, TX	14	39
Sausan Abouharb Medical Oncology · Houston, TX	14	205
Liqiang Wang Pathology · Webster, TX	11	49
Sonja Longbotham Diagnostic Radiology · Houston, TX	11	46

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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