PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1871997973

Melinda Sheppard

PRACTICECHRIST HOSPITAL ORTHOPEDIC ASSOCIATES III LLCSee all providers at this practice →

Nurse PractitionerCincinnati, OHI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

1,014

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

1,129

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$68K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 10,868 Nurse Practitioner providers in OH — top quintile (cohort median 219).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

7,657

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$2.1M

Distinct drugs

Brand share

42.7%

Top prescribed drugs

Apixaban1,246 claims

Metoprolol Succinate1,035 claims

Rivaroxaban690 claims

Sotalol Hcl641 claims

Metoprolol Tartrate442 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

No data available for this provider in 2024.

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$158

Payment records

By payment type

Food and Beverage$158

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Melinda Sheppard'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). 3 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
Madhukar Gupta Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Cincinnati, OH	59	142
Theodore Waller Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Cincinnati, OH	44	74
Gregory Egnaczyk Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Cincinnati, OH	14	27

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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