HOWARD, LAURAMD NPI 1972008985 Clinician

Emergency Medicine · FORT SMITH, AR

Specialty Emergency Medicine — from billed Medicare claims

Trained UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL AT SAN ANTONIO — medical school, self-reported to CMS

In practice about 8 years since medical school (class of 2018, self-reported to CMS)

Location FORT SMITH, AR · NPPES registered location

Active in data Billed Medicare 2021–2024 (4 consecutive years)

Scale 3 codes billed · 480 disclosed services (CY2024 — most recent year in data)

Current groups

MERCY CLINIC FORT SMITH COMMUNITIES — FORT SMITH, AR
SOUTHEASTERN EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS LLC — KNOXVILLE, TN

member of 2 groups; the volumes below are this clinician's personal volume and are not attributed to any single group

Group affiliation since 2019

20222026

SOUTHEASTERN EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS LLC

2026

MERCY CLINIC FORT SMITH COMMUNITIES

2024–2026

SHILOH EMERGENCY GROUP PLLC

2022–2023

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 2024-07

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

Provider overview · all codes · CY2024

The full analytics for this provider

Premium

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. Unlock to see the figure.

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

Code	Description	Services locked column	Beneficiary-episodes locked column	Avg charge locked column	Avg Medicare payment locked column
99285	Emergency department visit with high level of medical decision making	premium	premium	premium	premium
99284	Emergency department visit with moderate level of medical decision making	premium	premium	premium	premium
99291	Critical care, first 30-74 minutes	premium	premium	premium	premium

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.