PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1992810345

James BlantonMD

Internal MedicineHoover, ALI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

238

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

786

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$62K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 1,263 Internal Medicine providers in AL — below median (cohort median 839).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

8,058

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$456K

Distinct drugs

136

Brand share

16.7%

Top prescribed drugs

Atorvastatin Calcium443 claims

Apixaban349 claims

Levothyroxine Sodium334 claims

Trazodone Hcl264 claims

Furosemide255 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

No data available for this provider in 2024.

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$121

Payment records

By payment type

Food and Beverage$121

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where James Blanton'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). 24 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
Laboratory Corporation Of America Holdings Clinical Laboratory · Birmingham, AL	156	734
AMEDISYS HOSPICE, LLC	150	675
SOUTH HAVEN HEALTH AND REHABILITATION, LLC	115	1,029
Marvin Williams Podiatry · Pell City, AL	77	214
Regional Paramedical Services Inc Ambulance Service Provider · Jasper, AL	56	200
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	40	161
Lifeguard Ambulance Service Llc Ambulance Service Provider · Birmingham, AL	31	88
Northstar Ems, Inc. Ambulance Service Provider · Bessemer, AL	29	145
NPI 1386633857	29	70
Shoals Ambulance Llc Ambulance Service Provider · Bessemer, AL	27	96
JACKSON, GREGORY	26	75
Edward Sullivan Diagnostic Radiology · Birmingham, AL	25	86

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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