John Whitaker, M.D. appears in the CMS NPPES registry as a Surgery Physician provider holding M.D. credentials at 7777 HENNESSY BLVD, Baton Rouge, LA, 70808, with a listed phone of (225) 769-5656. NPI 1013007988 was issued on 10/13/2006.

Medicare Part D prescribing data is not currently published for this NPI, which typically means the provider either wrote fewer than 11 Part D claims in the most recent reporting year, does not participate in Medicare, or practices in a specialty that rarely prescribes outpatient drugs. Absence of prescribing data is not a quality signal, many Surgery Physician providers operate outside Part D entirely. On the CMS Merit-based Incentive Payment System, this provider earned a Final Score of 87.4/100 for the 2023 performance year (Quality 69.5, Cost 55), compared with the national average of 83.1.

Surgery Physician is a mid-sized specialty nationwide, with 36,191 enrolled providers across 56 states and an average of 169 Part D claims per prescriber, so the context for interpreting these metrics differs meaningfully from a primary-care baseline.

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