PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1982686978

Saul SchaeferM.D.

CardiologySacramento, CAI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

3,425

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

4,242

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$76K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 1,869 Cardiology providers in CA — above median (cohort median 2,371).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

441

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$126K

Distinct drugs

Brand share

24.5%

Top prescribed drugs

Atorvastatin Calcium43 claims

Apixaban41 claims

Metoprolol Succinate36 claims

Spironolactone36 claims

Furosemide33 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

Final MIPS score

83.2

Quality

64.8

Cost

68.7

Improvement activities

40.0

Promoting interop.

100.0

Payment adjustment

0.34%

Group

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$11K

Payment records

By payment type

Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program$9K

Food and Beverage$2K

Travel and Lodging$147

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Saul Schaefer'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). 153 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
John Livoni Diagnostic Radiology · Rolling Hills Estates, CA	311	575
Patricia Takeda Cardiology · Sacramento, CA	309	769
Scott Evans Diagnostic Radiology · Wheat Ridge, CO	234	572
Friedrich Knollmann Diagnostic Radiology · Philadelphia, PA	231	527
Dali Fan Undefined Physician type · Sacramento, CA	220	484
Cyrus Bateni Diagnostic Radiology · Sacramento, CA	189	379
Sandhya Venugopal Cardiology · Sacramento, CA	176	382
BOMMER, WILLIAM	175	489
Garrett Wong Interventional Cardiology · Sacramento, CA	157	424
Elizabeth Moore Diagnostic Radiology · Sacramento, CA	157	241
Thomas Smith Cardiology · Sacramento, CA	120	324
Jason Rogers Interventional Cardiology · Sacramento, CA	91	344

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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