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MERCHANT, JOSEPHM.D. NPI 1699765826 Clinician

Hematology-Oncology · AMES, IA

Specialty Hematology-Oncology — from billed Medicare claims
Trained UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, RJ & L CARVER COLLEGE OF MEDICINE — medical school, self-reported to CMS
In practice about 33 years since medical school (class of 1993, self-reported to CMS)
Location AMES, IA · NPPES registered location
Active in data Billed Medicare 2020–2024 (5 consecutive years)
Scale 93 codes billed · 159,644 disclosed services (CY2024 — most recent year in data)
Current groups

Group affiliation since 2019

20192026
2019–2026

The roster archive begins in 2019, so a span starting at 2019 may reach back further. Membership spans only — no volume is attributed to any group here.

NPPES registry · CMS Doctors & Clinicians registry · Medicare Part B physician/supplier claims · NPPES record last updated 2020-11

Year: 2024 · 2023 · 2022 locked column · 2021 locked column · 2020 locked column

Provider overview · all codes · CY2024

The full analytics for this provider

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The billed-volume positioning, practice focus, and economics behind this provider — computed on the same disclosed Medicare Part B data.

This provider's disclosed Medicare payments across all codes were premium in CY2024. Included with Platform.

  • Payment, service & beneficiary totals — the disclosed scale, all codes
  • Practice profile — focus & reach — top codes by share of services
  • Office vs. facility setting mix — place-of-service code split
  • Volume over five years — discrete yearly counts, no rate
  • Peer positioning — service volume — percentile among specialty peers, cohort & year disclosed
  • Peer positioning — code breadth — how many codes billed, vs peers

Peer positioning shows billed-volume and code-breadth positions among specialty peers, not measures of care (a provider's true volume position can only be higher, never lower). All figures disclosed Medicare Part B fee-for-service; volumes are personal to this NPI, not attributed to any group.

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Procedures billed to Medicare Part B (2024)

Medicare Part B FFS · CY2024 · as published by CMS
CodeDescription Services locked column Beneficiary-episodes locked column Avg charge locked column Avg Medicare payment locked column
J1439 Injection, ferric carboxymaltose, 1 mg premiumpremium premiumpremium
Q5125 Injection, filgrastim-ayow, biosimilar, (releuko), 1 microgram premiumpremium premiumpremium
J0881 Injection, darbepoetin alfa, 1 microgram (non-esrd use) premiumpremium premiumpremium
J9271 Injection, pembrolizumab, 1 mg premiumpremium premiumpremium
J9144 Injection, daratumumab, 10 mg and hyaluronidase-fihj premiumpremium premiumpremium
J0897 Injection, denosumab, 1 mg premiumpremium premiumpremium
J1453 Injection, fosaprepitant, 1 mg premiumpremium premiumpremium
J1561 Injection, immune globulin, (gamunex-c/gammaked), non-lyophilized (e.g., liquid), 500 mg premiumpremium premiumpremium
J9267 Injection, paclitaxel, 1 mg premiumpremium premiumpremium
J1100 Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg premiumpremium premiumpremium
85025 Complete blood cell count (red cells, white blood cell, platelets), automated test and automated differential white blood cell count premiumpremium premiumpremium
36415 Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample premiumpremium premiumpremium
J2469 Injection, palonosetron hcl, 25 mcg premiumpremium premiumpremium
99214 Established patient office or other outpatient visit with moderate level of decision making, if using time, 30 minutes or more premiumpremium premiumpremium
80053 Blood test, comprehensive group of blood chemicals premiumpremium premiumpremium
J9201 Injection, gemcitabine hydrochloride, not otherwise specified, 200 mg premiumpremium premiumpremium
99213 Established patient office or other outpatient visit with low level od decision making, if using time, 20 minutes or more premiumpremium premiumpremium
96413 Administration of chemotherapy into vein, 1 hour or less premiumpremium premiumpremium
G2211 Visit complexity inherent to evaluation and management associated with medical care services that serve as the continuing focal point for all needed health care services and/or with medical care services that are part of ongoing care related to a patient's premiumpremium premiumpremium
J9045 Injection, carboplatin, 50 mg premiumpremium premiumpremium
83735 Magnesium level premiumpremium premiumpremium
80048 Blood test, basic group of blood chemicals (calcium, total) premiumpremium premiumpremium
96367 Infusion into a vein for therapy, prevention, or diagnosis, additional sequential infusion, 1 hour or less premiumpremium premiumpremium
J2405 Injection, ondansetron hydrochloride, per 1 mg premiumpremium premiumpremium
96372 Injection of drug or substance under skin or into muscle premiumpremium premiumpremium
96365 Infusion into a vein for therapy, prevention, or diagnosis, 1 hour or less premiumpremium premiumpremium
82728 Ferritin (blood protein) level premiumpremium premiumpremium
83615 Lactate dehydrogenase (enzyme) level premiumpremium premiumpremium
83540 Iron level premiumpremium premiumpremium
83550 Iron binding capacity premiumpremium premiumpremium
99232 Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making, if using time, at least 35 minutes premiumpremium premiumpremium
J3489 Injection, zoledronic acid, 1 mg premiumpremium premiumpremium
J3475 Injection, magnesium sulfate, per 500 mg premiumpremium premiumpremium
84443 Blood test, thyroid stimulating hormone (tsh) premiumpremium premiumpremium
84165 Protein measurement, serum premiumpremium premiumpremium
99215 Established patient office or other outpatient visit with high level of medical decision making, if using time, 40 minutes or more premiumpremium premiumpremium
96375 Injection of additional new drug or substance into vein premiumpremium premiumpremium
96417 Administration of additional new drug or substance into vein, 1 hour or less premiumpremium premiumpremium
84439 Thyroxine (thyroid chemical), free premiumpremium premiumpremium
96415 Administration of chemotherapy into vein, each additional hour premiumpremium premiumpremium
99233 Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making, if using time, at least 50 minutes premiumpremium premiumpremium
J3420 Injection, vitamin b-12 cyanocobalamin, up to 1000 mcg premiumpremium premiumpremium
J9217 Leuprolide acetate (for depot suspension), 7.5 mg premiumpremium premiumpremium
85027 Complete blood cell count (red cells, white blood cell, platelets), automated test premiumpremium premiumpremium
82607 Cyanocobalamin (vitamin b-12) level premiumpremium premiumpremium
96401 Administration of non-hormonal anti-neoplastic chemotherapy under skin or into muscle premiumpremium premiumpremium
82378 Carcinoembryonic antigen (cea) protein level premiumpremium premiumpremium
84155 Total protein level, blood premiumpremium premiumpremium
96366 Infusion into a vein for therapy, prevention, or diagnosis, each additional hour premiumpremium premiumpremium
82746 Folic acid level, serum premiumpremium premiumpremium
84153 Psa (prostate specific antigen) measurement, total premiumpremium premiumpremium
85007 Microscopic examination for white blood cells with manual cell count premiumpremium premiumpremium
96402 Administration of hormonal anti-neoplastic chemotherapy under skin or into muscle premiumpremium premiumpremium
99238 Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less premiumpremium premiumpremium
J1200 Injection, diphenhydramine hcl, up to 50 mg premiumpremium premiumpremium
G0008 Administration of influenza virus vaccine premiumpremium premiumpremium
85014 Red blood cell concentration measurement premiumpremium premiumpremium
85018 Blood count, hemoglobin premiumpremium premiumpremium
90662 Influenza vaccine split virus, preservative free premiumpremium premiumpremium
99204 New patient office or other outpatient visit with moderate level of medical decision making, if using time, 45 minutes or more premiumpremium premiumpremium
85610 Blood test, clotting time premiumpremium premiumpremium
96411 Administration of additional new drug or substance into vein using push technique premiumpremium premiumpremium
96360 Infusion into a vein for hydration, 31-60 minutes premiumpremium premiumpremium
J7030 Infusion, normal saline solution , 1000 cc premiumpremium premiumpremium
J3490 Unclassified drugs premiumpremium premiumpremium
96523 Irrigation of implanted venous access drug delivery device premiumpremium premiumpremium
80047 Blood test, basic group of blood chemicals (calcium, ionized) premiumpremium premiumpremium
85045 Red blood count, automated test premiumpremium premiumpremium
J2997 Injection, alteplase recombinant, 1 mg premiumpremium premiumpremium
84156 Total protein level, urine premiumpremium premiumpremium
84550 Uric acid level, blood premiumpremium premiumpremium
99231 Subsequent hospital care with straightforward or low level of medical decision making, per day, if using time, at least 25 minutes premiumpremium premiumpremium
99205 New patient office or other outpatient visit with a high level of medical decision making, if using time, 60 minutes or more premiumpremium premiumpremium
80076 Liver function blood test panel premiumpremium premiumpremium
82570 Creatinine level to test for kidney function or muscle injury premiumpremium premiumpremium
86706 Hepatitis b surface antibody measurement premiumpremium premiumpremium
87340 Detection test by immunoassay technique for hepatitis b surface antigen premiumpremium premiumpremium
81001 Manual urinalysis test with examination using microscope, automated premiumpremium premiumpremium
82274 Stool analysis for blood, by fecal hemoglobin determination by immunoassay premiumpremium premiumpremium
84100 Phosphate level premiumpremium premiumpremium
90480 Admn sarscov2 vacc 1 dose premiumpremium premiumpremium
91322 Sarscov2 vac 50 mcg/0.5ml im premiumpremium premiumpremium
38222 Biopsy and aspiration of bone marrow sample for diagnosis premiumpremium premiumpremium
86880 Red blood cell antibody detection test, direct premiumpremium premiumpremium
87086 Bacterial colony count, urine premiumpremium premiumpremium
99223 Initial hospital care with moderate level of medical decision making, if using time, at least 75 minutes premiumpremium premiumpremium
36593 Declotting of central venous tube premiumpremium premiumpremium
86334 Immunologic analysis technique on serum (immunofixation) premiumpremium premiumpremium
84403 Testosterone (hormone) level, total premiumpremium premiumpremium
86335 Immunologic analysis technique on body fluid, other fluids with concentration premiumpremium premiumpremium
81003 Automated urinalysis test premiumpremium premiumpremium
86803 Hepatitis c antibody measurement premiumpremium premiumpremium
99495 Transitional care management services for problem of at least moderate complexity premiumpremium premiumpremium

These are this provider's own Medicare Part B fee-for-service volumes (CMS public data). CMS suppresses rows with fewer than 11 beneficiaries, so low-volume codes may be missing entirely — absence is not zero. Beneficiary-episodes count CMS's per-setting beneficiary figures, not unique patients. Average charge and average Medicare payment are weighted by service volume across office and facility settings. Volumes on this page are personal to the NPI and are not attributed to any physician group. See Methods & Sources.