Joseph Karpinsky, M.D. appears in the CMS NPPES registry as an Emergency Medicine Physician provider holding M.D. credentials at 1221 S BROADWAY, Lexington, KY, 40504, with a listed phone of (859) 258-4000. NPI 1730566688 was issued on 04/29/2015.

Medicare Part D records for calendar year 2023 show 409 prescription claims written by this provider, covering 307 Medicare beneficiaries and totaling roughly $14K in drug spend, split 6% brand-name and 94% generic by claim count, with an opioid prescribing rate of 13.9%. On the CMS Merit-based Incentive Payment System, this provider earned a Final Score of 80.9/100 for the 2023 performance year (Quality 62.3, Cost 74), compared with the national average of 83.1.

Emergency Medicine Physician is a high-volume specialty nationwide, with 64,463 enrolled providers across 56 states and an average of 352 Part D claims per prescriber, so the context for interpreting these metrics differs meaningfully from a primary-care baseline.

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