Samuel Hand, MD
Geriatric Medicine · Tuscaloosa
- Medicare standing
- Clear
- Enrolled, allowed to bill and order, not excluded
- Plans that list them
- Not verified
- Not the same as out of network.
- Office
- 1
Offices
1 location
Plan participation
Not verified
We could not verify current plan participation for this doctor. This does not mean they are out of network. Call Dr. Hand’s office at (205) 554-2000 to ask if they take your plan before you enroll.
Original Medicare doctor bills
$11,304
Medicare paid this office $11,304 for 62 people.
This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 50 minutes | 33 | $5,260 | $86 |
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 35 minutes | 12 | $1,547 | $57 |
| Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less | 16 | $935 | $58 |
Who their Medicare patients are
62 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 73 · Women 55% · Also on Medicaid 31% · Health risk score 3.43. Sicker patients than 9 in 10 peers; the typical internal medicine clinician is at 1.76.
Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Depression 52% · Chronic kidney disease 48% · Dementia 47% · Coronary heart disease 42% · Atrial fibrillation 39% · Cancer 37% · Heart failure 35% · Diabetes 31% · COPD 27% · Stroke 27%.
The office billed $40,834, Medicare allowed $14,799 and paid $11,304; for 153 services of 16 kinds.
Original Medicare patients only. A risk score of 1.0 is the average Medicare patient; higher means sicker. Any count under 11 is hidden.
Year by year
| 2024 | 62 | 153 | 73 | 3.43 | $40,834 | $11,304 |
| 2023 | 103 | 265 | 71 | 3.15 | $78,137 | $22,452 |
| 2022 | 42 | 93 | 69 | 2.63 | $30,306 | $8,379 |
Original Medicare only. A service billed for fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden, so the lines can add up to less than the year's total.
See the services billed each year
2023: 5 services
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 50 minutes | 45 | $9,730 | $88 |
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 35 minutes | 20 | $2,314 | $59 |
| Initial hospital care with moderate level of medical decision making at least 75 minutes | 17 | $2,212 | $130 |
| Long return visit (40+ min) | 14 | $1,609 | $101 |
| Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less | 21 | $1,265 | $60 |
2022: 1 service
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 50 minutes | 20 | $3,643 | $78 |
Medicaid work
$2,884 in 2023
Medicaid paid $2,884 for 14 billed services this clinician did in 2023, up to 14 people in a month for one service.
Medicaid and CHIP claims where this clinician did the service, fee-for-service and managed care together. Any month with fewer than 11 patients is hidden, so small Medicaid practices undercount.
| Long return visit (40+ min) | 14 | $2,884 |
| 2023 | 14 | 1 | 14 | $2,884 |
Drugs they prescribed that Part D paid
$12,883
Pharmacies billed $12,883 in 2024.
This is pharmacy cost, not the office bill, and not what patients paid.
Opioids were 44% of their Part D prescriptions (97 of 223) in 2024. A higher opioid share than 9 in 10 peers; the typical internal medicine clinician is at 1%. Long-acting opioids: 30% of their opioid prescriptions.
217 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $12,883 in drug cost.
Part D prescriptions only. The opioid rate is opioid prescriptions as a share of all this clinician's Part D prescriptions; surgeons and pain specialists run higher than others, so it is shown against the same specialty.
| Buprenorphine-Naloxone | 15 | $2,744 | $183 |
| Fentanyl | 15 | $2,621 | $175 |
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen | 25 | $811 | $32 |
| Oxycodone | 26 | $668 | $26 |
| Duloxetine | 24 | $505 | $21 |
See all 6 drugs
| Buprenorphine-Naloxone | 15 | $2,744 | $183 |
| Fentanyl | 15 | $2,621 | $175 |
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen | 25 | $811 | $32 |
| Oxycodone | 26 | $668 | $26 |
| Duloxetine | 24 | $505 | $21 |
| Oxycodone-Acetaminophen | 11 | $206 | $19 |
Year by year
| 2024 | 223 | 36 | 44% (97) | None | $12,883 |
| 2023 | 431 | 125 | 47% (201) | 6% | $33,146 |
| 2022 | 50 | 22 | 44% (22) | None | $3,028 |
| 2021 | 63 | 20 | 0% (0) | None | $3,837 |
| 2020 | 54 | 20 | 0% (0) | None | $2,972 |
| 2019 | 35 | 15 | 0% (0) | None | $1,467 |
| 2018 | 40 | 18 | 0% (0) | None | $2,316 |
Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.
See the drugs prescribed each year
2023: 13 drugs
| Oxycontin | 15 | $12,764 | $851 |
| Buprenorphine-Naloxone | 16 | $3,700 | $231 |
| Fentanyl | 26 | $2,255 | $87 |
| Oxycodone | 48 | $1,601 | $33 |
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen | 46 | $1,240 | $27 |
| Oxycodone-Acetaminophen | 25 | $1,046 | $42 |
| Buprenorphine | 14 | $569 | $41 |
| Cyclobenzaprine | 20 | $568 | $28 |
| Duloxetine | 15 | $387 | $26 |
| Gabapentin | 27 | $364 | $13 |
| Methadone | 18 | $281 | $16 |
| Buspirone | 11 | $253 | $23 |
| Clonazepam | 21 | $242 | $12 |
2021: 1 drug
| Pantoprazole | 14 | $125 | $9 |
Professional record
- NPI
- 1871084582
- Licence
- AL 44204
More record details
- Sole proprietor
- No
- Taxonomy
- Federal specialty code 207RG0300X (207RG0300X); Federal specialty code 207RH0002X (207RH0002X)
- Mailing address
- 3701 Loop Rd, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35404
- NPI first listed
- 2018-05-29
- NPI last updated
- 2025-05-16
- NPI record certified
- 2025-05-16
This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.