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What has this surgeon billed Medicare for, and how often?

Medicare publishes, procedure code by procedure code, how many times each US clinician billed for it. You give us the surgeon’s NPI and this $49 report lists every procedure and service code billed under it in 2024 — the three with the most services named up front — each with the services and patients recorded and the middle half of clinicians of the same specialty in the same state who billed that same code. You read across it to find the operation you are having; we do not ask which one it is. Beside that it puts the things you would otherwise check on four separate websites: the surgeon’s state license and any public discipline, their board certification, read on the boards’ own sites by a person for your order and dated, and what drug and device companies reported paying them. For a patient with an elective operation already booked.

Volume figures come from CMS’s Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for 2024 — 9,781,673 clinician-and-service rows — and payments from Open Payments for 2024–2025; both loaded 14 September 2026. See the source files.

Find your surgeon

Step 1: find the surgeon by state and name (or enter their 10-digit NPI). Step 2: confirm it’s the right person. Step 3: checkout.

See a sample report · a real report from public records, with identifying details masked

Free first. The industry-payment half of this report is free here: our doctor payments lookup gives you the same Open Payments records — totals by year, the companies, what the payments were for, the products named, and the median for the same specialty in the same state — for any clinician, in full. If that is all you need, stop there. The $49 report adds the two things that lookup does not hold: the Medicare procedure volumes beside the middle half of the same specialty in the same state, and the state license, public discipline and board certification read on the boards’ own sites for your order and dated. Your state medical board’s own license lookup is free too, and so is CMS’s Open Payments search.

Surgeon Medicare Volume, License & Industry Payments Record

On sale$49
You choose
One clinician, confirmed by name, specialty, city and National Provider Identifier (NPI)
License
Status, expiry and any public discipline as the state licensing board’s own website shows them, checked for your order and dated, with the page it came from
Board certification
Certifying board, specialty and status as the board’s own verification shows them, checked for your order; if none is shown, the report says which board was searched
Volume
Each procedure and service code billed to Medicare in 2024 — the 60 with the most services if there are more than 60, and the report says how many there are in all — with services and patients, beside the middle half of clinicians of the same Medicare specialty in the same state who billed that code, and whether this surgeon is below, within or above it. You choose which row is your operation; we don’t ask for a procedure
Payments
General payments, research payments and ownership interests reported by companies for 2024–2025
Delivery
Emailed within 2 business days; the license and board checks are made when your order is processed
Not included
Malpractice history, hospital privileges, and any rating or ranking. Medicare volume covers fee-for-service patients only and isn’t a measure of quality.

Questions patients ask before elective surgery

How can I look up how many procedures a surgeon has done?

There is no register of operations performed. The closest public measure is Medicare billing: CMS publishes, for each clinician and each procedure code, how many services and how many patients were billed in a year. That is what this report reports, and it says plainly that it covers Medicare fee-for-service patients only.

Does a high Medicare volume mean a better surgeon?

No. Volume is not a measure of quality or of outcomes, and it is skewed by a surgeon’s payer mix and patient age — Medicare patients are mostly 65 and over. The report shows where the number sits against same-specialty peers in the same state and leaves the judgement to you and your doctor.

Is the surgeon’s license checked, or copied from a file?

Checked. A person reads the state licensing board’s own verification page and the certifying board’s own verification for your order, records the date and the page it came from, and the report is not produced without a check less than 14 days old. That is why it is not instant.

What are industry payments and why do they matter?

Under the federal Open Payments program, drug and device companies must report what they pay physicians — consulting fees, travel, meals, research funding and ownership interests. The report lists them for 2024–2025 as reported. A payment is a disclosure, not a wrongdoing.

Will it show malpractice suits or hospital privileges?

No. Malpractice history and hospital privileges are not in any national public file, and the report says so rather than leaving you to read its silence as a clean record. Public board discipline is included, because boards publish it.

What if I only know the surgeon’s name?

Search by state and name and confirm the right person by specialty and city before ordering; the National Provider Identifier is shown so you can be certain it is the clinician you are seeing.

How quickly do I get it?

Emailed within 2 business days, because the license and board checks are done by hand when your order is processed.

Is this a background check or medical advice?

Neither. It is not a consumer report and must not be used for any purpose covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, including employment, credentialling or insurance decisions. It is public-record information for your own decision, and nothing here rates, ranks or recommends a clinician.

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