Physician Performance Module (PPM)
U.S. Physicians' HCPCS/CPT procedures & durable medical equipment (DME) orders.
The Physician Performance Module (PPM) is a subset of the Authoritative Physician Database, containing the HCPCS/CPT procedures and office visits performed by physicians for their Medicare patients, as well as their DME and POS (prosthetics, orthotics, and supply) orders. Physician names and addresses are not included; to link the PPM data to practice and physician contact data, license information, and more, the PPM integrates with the CarePrecise Master Bundle using the NPI number as the relational key. Payment totals, as found in the APD, are not included, but payment data for individual physician procedures are present.
Because the source data for the PPM is collected, processed and released once per year by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, it is offered as a single purchase only, with the exception of redistribution licensees, who will receive it upon each update through the term of the license.
Used in conjunction with the Master Bundle, the PPM offers insight into physicians' medical procedure volumes and charges, and can be used to roll up medical procedure volumes per practice location. Adding the Authoritative Hospital Database, it becomes possible to view medical services volumes within a health system/hospital macrocosm.
Product Details
CarePrecise data sets connect together to form a unified provider database. Add the Master Bundle data set to the Physician Performance Module, it is possible to see all of the providers who practice together, including physicians, nutritionists, RNs, and all other taxonomies of healthcare providers, as well as their organizations and employers, using CarePrecise's exclusive CoLoCode co-located provider identifier. Medical procedures and orders and charges by individual physicians can this be rolled up to particular practice locations.
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| Data Table/File Name | Field Name | Description | Data Type | Size | |||||||
DB FILE: Procedures.mdb |
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APD_PhysicianProcedure Physician procedure volumes and counts of services and patients served, from CMS-collected HCPCS reporting. Also included is a CSV version of this table. |
NPI | National Provider Identifier of clinician | Text | 10 | |||||||
| HCPCS_Code | Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) procedural code billed by the clinician. HCPCS procedures performed by physician are listed. HCPCS Level I codes are same as CPT codes. | Text | 24 | ||||||||
| HCPCSDrugIndic | HCPCS Drug Indicator. | Text | 255 | ||||||||
| PlaceOfService | Place where service was rendered. | ||||||||||
| ServiceCount | Frequency of individual clinician's performance of the associated HCPCS code within the calendar year. | Text | 10 | ||||||||
| BeneficiaryCount | The number of beneficiaries that received the service or procedure identified by the HCPCS code. | Text | 10 | ||||||||
| AvgMedicarePayment | Average Medicare Payment Amount. | Double | |||||||||
| AvgSubmittedCharge | Average Submitted Charge Amount. | Double | |||||||||
| MeasureYear | The most recent year of procedure data reported by CMS. | Text | 4 | ||||||||
| RUCA | The rural-urban commuting area (RUCA) codes classify U.S. census tracts using measures of population density, urbanization, and daily commuting | Text | |||||||||
| EntityType | NPI Record Type 1=individual, 2=organization | Text | |||||||||
APD_ProcedureDescriptions Physician procedure volumes. Ongoing extraction from CMS-collected HCPCS reporting. Abbreviated descriptions. Click to view Procedure Codes... Also included is a CSV version of this table.
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HCPCS_Code | Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) procedural code billed by the clinician | Text | 24 | |||||||
| ProcedureDescription | Lay-friendly description of procedure associated with HCPS code | Long Text | Long Text | ||||||||
DB FILE: DMEPOS.mdb |
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APD_PhysicianDMEPOS Physician Durable Medical Equipment (DME) orders and Prosthetics, Orthotics and Supplies (POS) orders, listing DMEPOS ordered by physician, and counts of services, claims, suppliers and patients served, from CMS-collected HCPCS reporting.Also included is a CSV version of this table. |
NPI | National Provider Identifier of clinician | Text | 10 | |||||||
| HCPCS_Code | Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System code for the specific product or service furnished by the Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics and Supplies (DMEPOS) supplier. Level II codes. | Text | 24 | ||||||||
| Rental | Identifies whether the DMEPOS product/service submitted on the supplier's claim is rental or non-rental - Y = rental, N = non-rental | Text | 1 | ||||||||
| Suppliers | Number of suppliers rendering DMEPOS products/services ordered by the referring provider | Text | 12 | ||||||||
| Beneficiaries | Number of beneficiaries associated with the supplier DMEPOS products/services ordered by the referring provider. Beneficiary counts fewer than 11 have been suppressed to protect the privacy of Medicare beneficiaries. | Text | 12 | ||||||||
| Claims | Number of DMEPOS claims submitted by the supplier, reflecting products/services ordered by the referring provider. Aggregated records based on claims fewer than 11 are not included. | Text | 12 | ||||||||
| Services | Number of DMEPOS products/services rendered by the supplier | Text | 12 | ||||||||
| AvgSubmittedCharge | Average of the charges that suppliers submit for DMEPOS products/services. Total submitted charges can be calculated by multiplying the AvgSubmittedCharge by the Services. | Double | |||||||||
| AvgMedicareAllowAmount | Average Medicare allowed amounts for the DMEPOS product/service rendered by suppliers. Allowed: amount Medicare pays, deductible and coinsurance the beneficiary pays, amounts that a third party pays. Total Medicare allowed amounts can be calculated by multiplying the AvgMedicareAllowAmount by the Services. | Double | |||||||||
| AvgMedicarePaymentAmount | Average amount Medicare paid suppliers after deductible and coinsurance amounts have been deducted for the line item DMEPOS product/service. Total Medicare payment amounts can be calculated by multiplying the AvgMedicarePaymentAmount by the Services. | Double | |||||||||
| AvgMedicareStandardAmount | Average amount Medicare paid suppliers after deductible and coinsurance amounts have been deducted for the line item DMEPOS product/service. Total Medicare payment amounts can be calculated by multiplying the AvgMedicarePaymentAmount by the Services. | Double | |||||||||
| MeasureYear | Year of care the data reflects (most recent CMS data release on this physician) | Text | 4 | ||||||||
| Classification | BETOS Classification Group. High level grouping of the BETOS Classifications into three groups including Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetic and Orthotic Devices, and Drugs and Nutritional Products. | Text | 255 | ||||||||
| RUCA | The rural-urban commuting area (RUCA) codes classify U.S. census tracts using measures of population density, urbanization, and daily commuting | Text | |||||||||
| EntityType | NPI Record Type 1=individual, 2=organization | Text | |||||||||
tAPD_DMEPOSDescriptions Physician procedure volumes. Ongoing extraction from CMS-collected HCPCS reporting. Abbreviated descriptions. Click to view Procedure Codes...Also included is a CSV version of this table. |
HCPCS_Code | Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System code for the specific product or service furnished by the Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics and Supplies (DMEPOS) supplier | Text | 24 | |||||||
| DMEPOS Description | Lay-friendly description of procedure associated with the DMEPOS HCPCS code | Long Text | 255 | ||||||||
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DELIVERY
Immediate download from our online store. Optional shipping via mail on a DVD disk or thumb drive is also available. Optional secure, automation-friendly FTP push delivery is available for subscribers.
FILE FORMATS
The downloaded zip file contains the PPM in two file formats, each containing identical data:
- Comma Separated Values (.csv); normalized relational tables; may be used in Excel or imported into any spreadsheet or database software on Windows, Mac or Linux system.
- Microsoft Access 2003/2007/2010/2013 (.mdb); normalized relational tables, with example queries.
SUPPORT
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