Sharon Carpenter, APRN

7.6 times the Medicare Part D claims of the average psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner in 2024

6,867 Medicare Part D claims for 332 beneficiaries, against an average of 906 among the 30,717 providers of this specialty who prescribed in Part D. Brand-name drugs were 8% of claims. 180 claims were for opioids.

Most prescribed

1. Sertraline Hcl404 claims
2. Quetiapine Fumarate288 claims
3. Divalproex Sodium214 claims
4. Desvenlafaxine Succinate Er213 claims
5. Furosemide168 claims
6. Levothyroxine Sodium162 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): 100 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: $223.01

7 payments; by number, the most common kind was food and beverage; the largest payer was Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. The 23,362 providers of this specialty with any payment received $1,027.77 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.