Infectious Disease

Training path

1. College (bachelor’s degree) 4 years
2. Medical school (MD or DO) 4 years
3. Internal medicine residency 3 years
4. Infectious disease fellowship 2 years

Training after medical school: 5 years. From the start of college: about 13 years.

Usual minimum program lengths from ACGME program requirements. Some doctors take extra research years or a second fellowship.

Who they are

• MD (DOs make up the rest) 94%
• Women 43%
• Graduated 35 or more years ago 21%
• Offer telehealth 45%
• Accept Medicare’s approved amount 96%

Sex and credentials from NPPES. Graduation year, telehealth and Medicare assignment from Medicare Care Compare, which covers clinicians enrolled in Medicare.

What they do most for Medicare patients

• Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making, if using time, at least 35 minutes 2,098,341
• Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making, if using time, at least 50 minutes 1,155,817
• Initial hospital care with moderate level of medical decision making, if using time, at least 75 minutes 475,901
• Initial hospital care with straightforward or low-level medical decision making, if using time, at least 55 minutes 331,154
• Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 30-39 minutes 324,947
• Infusion into a vein for therapy, prevention, or diagnosis, 1 hour or less 191,244
• Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 20-29 minutes 160,993
• Subsequent hospital care with straightforward or low level of medical decision making, per day, if using time, at least 25 minutes 117,958
• Subsequent nursing facility care with straightforward level of medical decision making, per day, if using time, at least 15 minutes 75,124
• Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 40-54 minutes 64,956
• Critical care, first 30-74 minutes 52,554
• Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample 49,724

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Services billed to traditional Medicare in 2023 (Physician and Other Practitioners data); drugs given in the office are left out.

What they prescribe most

• Bictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala (Biktarvy) 8.2%
• Atorvastatin Calcium (Atorvaliq, Lipitor) 3.7%
• Doxycycline Hyclate (Doxy 100, Targadox) 2.5%
• Dolutegravir Sodium (Tivicay, Tivicay Pd) 2.3%
• Amlodipine Besylate (Norliqva, Norvasc) 2.2%
• Ceftriaxone Sodium (Ceftriaxone) 2.1%
• Daptomycin 1.8%
• Emtricitabine/Tenofov Alafenam (Descovy) 1.7%
• Vancomycin Hcl (Firvanq) 1.7%
• Dolutegravir Sodium/Lamivudine (Dovato) 1.6%
• Cephalexin 1.6%
• Rosuvastatin Calcium (Crestor) 1.5%
• Azithromycin (Azasite, Zithromax) 1.5%
• Sulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim (Bactrim Ds, Sulfamethoxazole-Trimethoprim) 1.5%
• Gabapentin (Gralise, Neurontin) 1.4%

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Share of this specialty’s Medicare Part D prescriptions in 2024, including refills. Select a drug to see which of these clinicians prescribe it most, and where.

Hospitals where the most work

• New York-Presbyterian Hospital New York, NY 90 Infectious Disease at New York-Presbyterian Hospital
• Hospital of Univ of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 85 Infectious Disease at Hospital of Univ of Pennsylvania
• Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 69 Infectious Disease at Massachusetts General Hospital
• Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA 68 Infectious Disease at Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Barnes Jewish Hospital Saint Louis, MO 65 Infectious Disease at Barnes Jewish Hospital
• Adventhealth Orlando Orlando, FL 63 Infectious Disease at Adventhealth Orlando
• Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH 58 Infectious Disease at Cleveland Clinic
• NYU Langone Hospitals New York, NY 57 Infectious Disease at NYU Langone Hospitals
• Yale-New Haven Hospital New Haven, CT 51 Infectious Disease at Yale-New Haven Hospital
• Mayo Clinic Hospital Rochester Rochester, MN 49 Infectious Disease at Mayo Clinic Hospital Rochester

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Clinicians who list the hospital in Medicare Care Compare. The number opens the list of who works there.

Schools they graduated from most

• Harvard Medical School 71
• Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University 61
• Georgetown University School of Medicine 60
• Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 60
• Temple University School of Medicine 59
• Wayne State University School of Medicine 56
• New York University School of Medicine 53
• University of Washington School of Medicine 48
• Rush Medical College of Rush University 47
• University of Illinois College of Med (chi/peor/rock/chm-Urb) 47

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From Medicare Care Compare (Medicare-enrolled clinicians only).