PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1881654408

James HowardMD

PRACTICEBHASKAR RAO, MD, PASee all providers at this practice →

Emergency MedicineEl Paso, TXI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

154

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

155

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$12K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 3,447 Emergency Medicine providers in TX — below median (cohort median 308).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$297

Distinct drugs

Brand share

33.3%

Top prescribed drugs

Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen19 claims

Cephalexin13 claims

Prednisone13 claims

Ibuprofen12 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

No data available for this provider in 2024.

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

No data available for this provider in 2024.

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where James Howard'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). 7 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
BIG BEND HOSPITAL CORPORATION	99	355
City Of El Paso Texas Ambulance Service Provider · El Paso, TX	51	77
David Sanchez Family Practice · Alpine, TX	22	124
Laboratory Corporation Of America Clinical Laboratory · Dallas, TX	20	43
Rocky Mountain Holdings, Llc Ambulance Service Provider · Sylacauga, AL	15	28
James Luecke Family Practice · Fort Davis, TX	14	88
Rabin Nouranifar Diagnostic Radiology · Coatesville, PA	12	18

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

OIG/SAM exclusion screening, sanctions history