PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1831162403

Howard GussD.O.

PRACTICESHORE HEALTH GROUP, PCSee all providers at this practice →

GastroenterologyOcean, NJI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

1,049

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

1,266

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$115K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 544 Gastroenterology providers in NJ — above median (cohort median 963).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

1,208

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$147K

Distinct drugs

Brand share

18.1%

Top prescribed drugs

Pantoprazole Sodium613 claims

Sodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates140 claims

Sucralfate117 claims

Omeprazole92 claims

Esomeprazole Magnesium78 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

Final MIPS score

85.2

Quality

71.6

Cost

76.7

Improvement activities

40.0

Promoting interop.

100.0

Payment adjustment

0.43%

Group

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$3K

Payment records

By payment type

Debt forgiveness$3K

Education$150

Food and Beverage$79

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Howard Guss'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). 51 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
MERIDIAN HOSPITALS CORPORATION	196	521
Advanced Endoscopy & Surgical Center Llc Ambulatory Surgical Center · Eatontown, NJ	144	247
Laboratory Corporation Of America Holdings Clinical Laboratory · Raritan, NJ	110	277
Pritinder Thind Diagnostic Radiology · East Brunswick, NJ	68	205
Cdx Diagnostics, Inc. Clinical Laboratory · Suffern, NY	58	99
Nicole Glynn Diagnostic Radiology · East Brunswick, NJ	50	133
ZEDIE, NISHAT	47	71
Michael Carroll Diagnostic Radiology · East Brunswick, NJ	43	100
Leonard Zawodniak Diagnostic Radiology · East Brunswick, NJ	40	104
GIRGIS, WAHID	39	103
MONMOUTH OCEAN HOSPITAL SERVICE CORPORATION	33	53
ALERT AMBULANCE SERVICE, INC	32	74

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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