Amanda Boland Hilmer, MD

77% fewer Medicare Part D claims than the average addiction medicine (internal medicine) physician in 2024

189 Medicare Part D claims for 57 beneficiaries, against an average of 829 among the 401 providers of this specialty who prescribed in Part D. Brand-name drugs were 10% of claims.

Most prescribed

1. Buprenorphine-Naloxone54 claims

Source: CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers by Provider and Drug, 2024 (data.cms.gov). Part D covers prescriptions for Medicare patients only; drugs with fewer than 11 claims are not published.

The practice group's MIPS final score for 2023 (Medicare payment program): 88.9 of 100

The Merit-based Incentive Payment System score is reported for the practice group, not for one clinician alone. Four categories are weighted into the final score; the average among 454,083 clinicians with a measured score was 83.5.

Source: CMS Quality Payment Program, MIPS performance year 2023, group reporting; category weights for 2023 (qpp.cms.gov).

Industry payments in 2024: $24.06

1 payment: food and beverage; the largest payer was Indivior Inc. The 188 providers of this specialty with any payment received $1,761.64 on average. Payments are reported by manufacturers, not by the provider, and are not a sign of wrongdoing.

Source: CMS Open Payments, program year 2024 (openpaymentsdata.cms.gov); average among providers of this specialty with at least one payment.

Bills Medicare through 3 group practices

1. Mercy Aco Clinical Services IncChesterfield, MO
2. Mercy Clinic Adult Hospitalists - St. Louis, LLCSaint Louis, MO
3. Mercy Hospitals East CommunitiesSt Louis, MO

Source: CMS Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (the group practices a clinician bills Medicare through) (data.cms.gov).