PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1861482556

Malcolm FosterM.D.

CardiologyKnoxville, TNI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

2,148

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

2,480

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$149K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 374 Cardiology providers in TN — above median (cohort median 2,451).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

4,257

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$1.0M

Distinct drugs

Brand share

37.7%

Top prescribed drugs

Clopidogrel Bisulfate478 claims

Rosuvastatin Calcium340 claims

Atorvastatin Calcium309 claims

Apixaban284 claims

Evolocumab234 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

Final MIPS score

88.1

Quality

73.9

Cost

0.0

Improvement activities

40.0

Promoting interop.

100.0

Payment adjustment

0.55%

APM Entity

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$87K

Payment records

218

By payment type

Consulting Fee$36K

Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program$26K

Travel and Lodging$10K

Food and Beverage$8K

Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program$7K

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Malcolm Foster'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). 22 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
METRO KNOXVILLE HMA LLC	669	1,943
John Goodwin Diagnostic Radiology · Knoxville, TN	123	290
BROOME, MONROE	59	114
William Smith Emergency Medicine · Opelousas, LA	53	103
Rural/Metro Of Tennessee, L.P. Ambulance Service Provider · Knoxville, TN	50	162
Douglas Holland Emergency Medicine · Knoxville, TN	46	108
LINDSAY, WILLIAM	40	113
Jeffrey Douglas Infectious Disease · Knoxville, TN	38	126
Nilamkumar Patel Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Knoxville, TN	34	92
Timothy Ballard Nurse Practitioner · Knoxville, TN	32	51
PARKWEST MEDICAL CENTER	30	62
POWERS, WILLIAM	30	78

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