What is Michael Houston's specialty?

Michael Houston (NPI 1962516682) is a Medicare-billing provider whose primary specialty is Pulmonary Disease in Foley, AL.

Where does Michael Houston practice?

Michael Houston practices in Foley, AL, based on the location reported in the CMS Medicare provider datasets for NPI 1962516682.

How much does Medicare pay Michael Houston?

Michael Houston (NPI 1962516682) received approximately $88K in total Medicare Part B payments, serving 497 beneficiaries, per the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners dataset.

PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1962516682

Michael HoustonMD

Pulmonary DiseaseFoley, ALI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

1,362

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

1,732

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$85K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 167 Pulmonary Disease providers in AL — above median (cohort median 943).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

3,145

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$1.4M

Distinct drugs

Brand share

59.1%

Top prescribed drugs

Fluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter459 claims

Albuterol Sulfate367 claims

Montelukast Sodium238 claims

Prednisone148 claims

Fluticasone/Vilanterol127 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

Final MIPS score

88.0

Quality

76.0

Cost

0.0

Improvement activities

40.0

Promoting interop.

100.0

Payment adjustment

0.55%

APM Entity

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$436

Payment records

By payment type

Food and Beverage$436

Top paying entities

Food and Beverage$436

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Michael Houston'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). 65 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
FOLEY HOSPITAL COMPANY LLC	513	3,815
CAMPBELL, JOHN	250	1,270
Laboratory Corporation Of America Holdings Clinical Laboratory · Birmingham, AL	232	780
JONES, WILLIAM	198	1,034
Karl Hakmiller Cardiology · Fairhope, AL	131	587
GULF HEALTH HOSPITALS, INC	121	371
MEDSTAR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE, LLC	95	452
Brian Dearing Interventional Cardiology · Fairhope, AL	94	371
Ralph Buckley Cardiology · Mobile, AL	94	329
Robert Robichaux Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Mobile, AL	66	307
Michael Berry Internal Medicine · Foley, AL	52	250
William Beazley Emergency Medicine · Wiggins, MS	49	152

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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