NPI registry status
Active
2026 NPPES data Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician NPI 1487611463 M.D.
Verify on CMS → Ira Lown, M.D.
Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician in Austin, Texas.
This profile is drawn from the federal National Provider Identifier Registry (CMS NPPES), which lists more than 7 million U.S. healthcare providers - including 411 in Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician, and covers specialty classification, practice address, and Medicare Part D prescribing data when reported. According to CMS, every field reflects the provider's official federal registration, see our methodology.
Federal data, no proprietary rating.
We show these CMS records as-is - no composite score, no star rating, no editorial opinion layered on top.
Prescribing volume
103
Medicare Part D claims · 74 beneficiaries · Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician avg: 179
MIPS score
75/100
CMS neutral threshold · no category scores published
Industry payments
$218.23
4 payments · CMS Open Payments (Sunshine Act)
What the federal data shows
Ira Lown, M.D. carries the neutral CMS MIPS final score of 75/100, assigned where no category was scored - and filed 103 Medicare Part D claims in 2024.
- 75/100
- CMS neutral score · not measured
- 103
- Part D claims, 2024
- Likely
- board-certified (heuristic)
- ≥34th
- pct by Part D claim volume (lower-bound band)
Every figure on this page comes straight from federal CMS records (NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments) - no proprietary rating or editorial opinion is applied.
Federal trust snapshot
What official records show about Ira Lown, M.D.
Federal records show an active NPI with Medicare Part D prescribing activity — verifiable registry data, not a proprietary rating.
- Verified
NPI registry status
Active listing in the CMS National Provider Identifier Registry (NPI 1487611463), first enumerated 04/26/2006.
Source: CMS NPPES
- Reported
Medicare Part D participation
Filed 103 Medicare Part D prescription claims in the 2023 CMS public use file — indicates active Medicare prescribing participation.
Source: CMS Part D Prescriber PUF
- Reported
CMS quality reporting (MIPS)
CMS assigned a neutral MIPS final score of 75/100 where no performance category was scored — not a measured quality rank.
Source: CMS Quality Payment Program
- Reported
Board certification signal
Heuristic suggests board-certified status based on ABMS-eligible specialty taxonomy plus active CMS participation signals — not a direct ABMS verification.
- Reported
Hospital affiliations
1 CMS Care Compare hospital affiliation on record — practice footprint from the Doctors and Clinicians file.
Source: CMS Care Compare
- Reported
Industry payment transparency
$218.23 in reported industry payments (4 transfers) in 2024 under the federal Sunshine Act — disclosed transfers of value, not a quality rating.
Source: CMS Open Payments
- State context
State board disciplinary context
Texas statewide board action statistics are published annually — these figures describe aggregate state activity, not Ira Lown, M.D.'s individual license status. Verify directly with the state medical board.
Source: TMB annual report 2023
- Not in federal data
Individual sanction lookup
PlainDoctor does not publish per-provider disciplinary determinations. Confirm current license and any individual actions through the state medical board or FSMB verification service.
Source: State medical board / FSMB
This trust snapshot summarizes only what appears in federal CMS/NPPES public records. It is not a composite score, star rating, patient review, or clinical recommendation. PlainDoctor never fabricates reviews or AggregateRating schema.
CMS NPPES provider registry desk
NPI 1487611463 · Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician
NPI-10 · ENUM-LEGACY · TAX-TRACE · MIPS-NEUTRAL · RX-LIGHT · BOOK-THIN · PHOTO-ENUM
- NPI-10 1487611463
- ENUM-LEGACY 2006
- TAX-TRACE 411
- MIPS-NEUTRAL 75/100
- RX-LIGHT 103
- BOOK-THIN 43 in Texas
- PHOTO-ENUM Mark Brzezienski, MD · 2006
Ira Lown, M.D.'s Medicare Part D volume vs every U.S. prescriber
Total Medicare Part D claims, 2024, across all CMS prescribers nationally
103 ≥ 34th percentile 34% of 1,416,883 prescribers are in lower value bands
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more prescribers. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
The percentile is a conservative 100-claim band: it counts only prescribers in lower claim-volume bands. Medicare Part D claim volume is activity context, not a quality measure or recommendation. See methodology § corpus placement.
Source CMS Medicare Part D Prescriber Public Use File · 2024
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Board certification likely (heuristic, not verified)
Ira Lown, M.D. practices in an ABMS-board-eligible specialty and shows active CMS Medicare participation + MIPS quality reporting + 1 hospital affiliation - signals consistent with board-certified status. For verified board certification, see CertificationMatters.org (the official ABMS public lookup).
What does the federal data show about Ira Lown, M.D.?
CMS neutral score, not measuredPrimary specialty
Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician
Medicare Part D claims
103 42% vs specialty avg
MIPS final score
75/100
Specialty distribution in Texas
How Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician compares to other specialties among Texas providers
MIPS score not measured
CMS assigned a neutral 75/100 threshold
CMS did not publish any Quality, Cost, Promoting Interoperability, or Improvement Activities category score for this clinician. This administrative threshold is not comparable with the national average of clinicians whose MIPS score was measured.
How MIPS and board certification work
The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) scores providers 0–100 across four performance categories: Quality, Cost, Promoting Interoperability, and Improvement Activities, weighted under 42 CFR §414.1380. Reporting is voluntary for many small practices, so absence of a MIPS score is not a quality signal.
Board certification through an ABMS or AOA member board signals voluntary post-licensure examination plus continuous Maintenance of Certification cycles. Verify any individual provider's status through certificationmatters.org (ABMS) or osteopathic.org (AOA).
Practice Address
Provider Details
| NPI | 1487611463 |
|---|---|
| Specialty | Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician |
| Credentials | M.D. |
| Gender | Male |
| NPI Issued | 04/26/2006 |
CMS Quality Score (MIPS)
Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) scores from CMS, 2023 performance year.
75
Final Score
CMS neutral threshold · not measured
Reporting: Group practice
Hospital and facility affiliations
Facilities where Ira Lown, M.D. bills Medicare from. Star ratings (1-5) are CMS Hospital Compare's "Hospital overall rating" - a composite of mortality, readmission, patient experience, safety, timely care, and efficient use of medical imaging measures. Source: CMS Care Compare.
Austin Hand Group PLLC
West Lake Hills, TX
Affiliations sourced from CMS Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File; hospital ratings from CMS Hospital General Information dataset (cross-referenced by facility name + state).
Industry payments received (2024) - CMS Open Payments transparency data
The federal Physician Payments Sunshine Act (part of the Affordable Care Act) requires drug and medical-device manufacturers + group purchasing organizations to publicly report payments and other transfers of value to physicians and teaching hospitals. The data below covers 2024 for Ira Lown, M.D.. Source: openpaymentsdata.cms.gov.
Total received
$218
Largest payer
Alafair Biosciences, Inc.
Most common payment type
Food and Beverage
Industry payments are not necessarily indicators of bias, they include research funding, consulting fees for evidence-based work, royalties for inventions, food at conferences, and similar items. The disclosure exists for transparency. Read our methodology for how we interpret this data.
License & disciplinary context - Texas TMB 2023 annual report
Aggregate state board data only, NOT a determination of any individual provider's status. The figures below describe statewide disciplinary activity across all ~77K Texas medical licensees in 2023 - they are NOT specific to Ira Lown, M.D.. To verify Ira Lown, M.D.'s current license status, search the TMB public license lookup directly, or check the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) verification service.
344
Total board actions, Texas 2023
Across 334 cases
4.47
Actions per 1,000 licensees
Texas statewide rate
probation
Most common action type
94 cases
TMB publishes annual disciplinary statistics as part of public-record reporting under each state's Administrative Procedure Act. See the full breakdown by action type and year on the Texas disciplinary trends page. Cross-checked against FSMB U.S. Medical Regulatory Trends.
Medicare Part D Prescribing Data
CMS Medicare Part D prescriber-level data for calendar year 2024.
103
Total Claims
$13K
Total Drug Cost
74
Medicare Beneficiaries
Prescribing Breakdown
- 30-Day Fills
- 103
- Total Day Supply
- 578
- Generic Drug Cost
- $649
- Opioid Claims
- 77 (74.8% rate)
- Antibiotic Claims
- 19
Patient Demographics
- Average Patient Age
- 73.1 years
- Avg HCC Risk Score
- 1.15
- Gender Split
- 49% female / 51% male
Top Prescribed Drugs (Medicare Part D)
Top drugs by claim count for calendar year 2024. Based on Medicare Part D data only.
| Drug | Claims |
|---|---|
| Acetaminophen-Codeine Acetaminophen With Codeine | 53 |
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 14 |
* Counts below 11 are suppressed by CMS for patient privacy. Generic names shown where available from CMS Part D data.
Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician Overview
How Ira Lown, M.D. fits within the Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician landscape nationally.
411
Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician Providers in US
45
States with Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician
179
Avg Claims per Provider
Ira Lown, M.D.'s 103 claims are below the specialty average of 179.
Nationwide Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician peers with similar MIPS or enrollment year
Two federal-record peer sets for Lown, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not geographic containment.
Similar MIPS final score
Nearest same-specialty clinicians by CMS MIPS final score (75 here).
Same NPPES enumeration year (2006)
Same-specialty clinicians who entered the NPI registry in the same calendar year, outside this state.
Nearby Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician Providers in Texas
Other clinicians with the same primary specialty enrolled in Texas, drawn from the same CMS NPPES roster as Lown.
One of 43 Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician providers enrolled in Texas, 5 are shown here.
Dr. Susan Adler
M.D.
Austin, TX
Dr. Robert Antonetti
M.D.
Plano, TX
Dr. Jason Ashford
MD
Houston, TX
Dr. Solomon Azouz
M.D.
Dallas, TX
Dr. Alfonso Barragan
M.D.
Burleson, TX
Compare Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician nationally: see state-by-state distribution →
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Ira Lown, M.D.'s specialty? ▼
Ira Lown, M.D. specializes in Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician and practices in Austin, Texas. Credentials: M.D..
How much does Ira Lown, M.D. prescribe under Medicare Part D? ▼
In 2024, Ira Lown, M.D. wrote 103 Medicare Part D claims totaling $13K in drug costs for 74 beneficiaries.
What is Ira Lown, M.D.'s Medicare quality score? ▼
Ira Lown, M.D. has a CMS MIPS Final Score of 75/100. CMS published no Quality, Promoting Interoperability, Improvement Activity or Cost score for this clinician, so the final score is the neutral performance threshold CMS assigns rather than a measured result. The average MIPS Final Score across the 454,083 clinicians with at least one published category score is 83.5; clinicians whose score CMS assigned without scoring any category are excluded from that average. Source: CMS Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) 2023.
Where is Ira Lown, M.D. located? ▼
Ira Lown, M.D. is located at 3345 BEE CAVE RD, Austin, TX, 78746. Phone: (512) 327-4263.
What is Ira Lown, M.D.'s NPI number? ▼
Ira Lown, M.D.'s National Provider Identifier (NPI) is 1487611463, issued on 04/26/2006.
Does Ira Lown, M.D. prescribe opioids? ▼
Yes, Ira Lown, M.D. had 77 opioid claims in 2024 with an opioid prescribing rate of 74.8%.
How many Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician providers are there in the US? ▼
There are 411 Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician providers across 45 states in the US. The average Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician provider writes 179 Medicare Part D claims per year.
What drugs does Ira Lown, M.D. prescribe most often? ▼
Based on 2024 Medicare Part D data, Ira Lown, M.D.'s most frequently prescribed drugs include Acetaminophen-Codeine, Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen. This reflects Medicare Part D prescriptions only and does not include commercial insurance or other payer types.
Does Ira Lown, M.D. accept Medicare? ▼
Ira Lown, M.D. appears in CMS Medicare data with 103 Part D claims and 74 Medicare beneficiaries in 2024. Contact the provider's office directly to confirm current Medicare enrollment and accepted plans.
How can I verify Ira Lown, M.D.'s credentials? ▼
Ira Lown, M.D.'s NPI is 1487611463 with credentials M.D.. You can verify this through the NPPES NPI Registry, check state medical board records, and confirm board certification through the ABMS or AOA.
Data Sources
View source datasets and methodology notes
- Provider Directory
- CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), download.cms.gov/nppes, updated monthly. Contains NPI, specialty, credentials, and practice location.
- Specialty Classification
- NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy (nucc.org), the industry standard for classifying provider specialties in Medicare and Medicaid billing.
- Prescribing Data
- CMS Medicare Part D Prescriber Public Use File (2024). Includes claims, drug costs, beneficiaries, and opioid prescribing rates.
- Quality Performance
- CMS Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) - 2023 performance year.
- Limitations
- Provider data is self-reported to CMS. Prescribing data reflects Medicare Part D only and does not include commercial insurance, Medicaid, or cash prescriptions. Claims below 11 beneficiaries are suppressed by CMS for privacy.
See our complete data methodology for details on how we collect and process government data.
Data as of August 2026 (NPPES) / 2024 (Medicare Part D). Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Disclaimer: Data from CMS NPPES and Medicare Part D. PlainDoctor does not rate or rank providers. Provider information is self-reported and may not be current. Always verify information directly with the provider. About · Methodology
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