Dr. Deborah E. Zell, MD

  • Scottsdale, AZ
  • Mohs-micrographic surgery physician
NPI1063623148PAC ID7214121136
Medicare services, 2024
6,438
Medicare patients, 2024
640
Part D claims, 2024
710
MIPS score, 2024
100
Industry payments
$3,136
Practice address
10200 N 92nd St, Scottsdale, AZ 85258
Practice phone
Call (602) 494-1817
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Primary practice

Southwest Skin Specialists

Scottsdale, Arizona

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Dr. Deborah E. Zell is a mohs-micrographic surgery physician in Scottsdale, Arizona

Dr. Zell practices at Southwest Skin Specialists in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Dr. Zell's NPI, 1063623148, was assigned on May 24, 2007. Dr. Zell graduated from Tulane University School of Medicine in 2003. Dr. Zell holds Arizona license 43152.

NPI and contact details
Medicare PAC ID
7214121136
NPI enumeration date
May 24, 2007
NPI status
Active
Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes
Practice phone
(602) 494-1817
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Sex
Female
Estimated age
49
Medical school graduation
2003

Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; Dmand AI Practice Data; and Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS)

Dr. Deborah E. Zell practices at Southwest Skin Specialists in Scottsdale, Arizona

Dr. Zell's primary practice is Southwest Skin Specialists, at 10200 N 92nd St, Scottsdale, AZ 85258 in Maricopa County. The practice phone is (602) 494-1817.

  • Southwest Skin Specialists
    10200 N 92nd St, Scottsdale, AZ 85258 · Maricopa CountyPhone(602) 494-1817

Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); and Dmand AI Practice Data

Dr. Deborah E. Zell is affiliated with 3 sites of care and 2 medical groups

Dr. Zell's primary practice is Southwest Skin Specialists in Scottsdale, Arizona. The medical group on file is Southwest Skin Specialists. Dmand AI also links Dr. Zell to 2 more group practices and clinics and 1 medical group, each named with a free account.

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Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Practice Data; and Dmand AI Affiliation Data

Dmand AI tracks the EHR system at Dr. Deborah E. Zell's practice

Dmand AI tracks the electronic health record (EHR) system at each site where Dr. Zell practices, 2 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.

EHR by site
SiteEHR vendor and product
Southwest Skin SpecialistsAvailable with a free account
+2 more sites and 1 medical groupAvailable with a free account

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Dr. Deborah E. Zell is one of 41 mohs-micrographic surgery physicians in Arizona

Mohs-micrographic surgery is Dr. Zell's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 207ND0101X. Dr. Zell is licensed in Arizona.

Specialties and state licenses

  • Mohs-micrographic surgery, ArizonaPrimaryLicense 43152 · taxonomy 207ND0101X

Mohs-micrographic surgery physicians near Dr. Zell

Counts of mohs-micrographic surgery physicians with a Dmand AI profile, by place and practice. Each opens the list.

Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; and Dmand AI Peer Benchmarks

Dr. Deborah E. Zell billed Medicare for 6,438 services in 2024

CMS data shows 6,438 Medicare services from Dr. Zell across 29 procedure codes in 2024, for 640 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $864,903 for them. Every service was in an office.

Medicare services, 20246,438
Medicare patients640
Paid by Medicare$864,903
Procedure codes29

Dr. Zell's Medicare services by type, 2023 to 2024

  • 2023
  • 2024
Surgery
2023: 5,8962024: 5,5146%
Office and hospital visits
2023: 9872024: 83016%
Drugs given in the office
2023: 542024: 3633%
Tests and treatments
2023: 292024: 3417%
Lab and pathology
2023: 962024: 2475%

Dr. Zell compared with the Arizona median for mohs-micrographic surgery physicians, 2024

  • Dr. Zell
  • Arizona median
Medicare services
6,438vs 2,5812.5 times
Medicare patients
640vs 6765% below
Part D claims
652vs 36977% above

Medians across 41 mohs-micrographic surgery physicians in Arizona with Dmand AI profiles that report each measure.

Dr. Zell's most billed Medicare procedure codes, 2024

CMS publishes codes billed for 11 or more Medicare patients. Each label is the code family; CPT descriptions are licensed by the AMA.

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Sources: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider and Service (CMS), 2024 data; and Dmand AI Peer Benchmarks

Dr. Deborah E. Zell treated 640 Medicare patients in 2024, average age 78

CMS counts 640 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Zell in 2024. The largest group is 75 to 84, with 323 patients. 75% of them have high blood pressure, and 75% have high cholesterol. Their average risk score is 1.17, where 1.00 is the Medicare average.

Across all payers, Dmand AI patient panel data puts Dr. Zell's median patient age at 77, with 45% women.

Medicare patients, 2024640
Average age78
Average risk score1.17

Dr. Zell's Medicare patients by age, 2024

CMS leaves out age groups with fewer than 11 patients.

Dr. Zell's Medicare patients by sex, 2024

  • Women31649%
  • Men32451%

Chronic conditions among Dr. Zell's Medicare patients, 2024

  1. High blood pressure75%
  2. High cholesterol75%
  3. Arthritis49%
  4. Chronic kidney disease34%
  5. Ischemic heart disease29%
  6. Diabetes21%
  7. Cancer19%
  8. Atrial fibrillation18%

Share of Medicare patients with each condition. A patient can have several.

Dr. Zell's patients across all payers

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Patient panel by age, all payers

Median age 77

Patient panel by sex, all payers

  • Women45%
  • Men54%

Sources: Dmand AI Patient Panel Data; and Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS), 2024 data

Dr. Deborah E. Zell wrote 710 Medicare Part D claims in 2024

In 2024, Dr. Zell wrote 710 Medicare Part D claims for 371 patients. 99% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 652 of them, across 9 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $11,103 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 547 claims across 8 drugs.

Part D claims, 2024710
Drugs named by CMS9
Total drug cost$11,103
Part D patients371

Dr. Zell's Part D claims by kind of drug, 2024

  • Generic702 claims99%
  • Brand-name and other8 claims1%

Dr. Zell's most prescribed drugs by claims, 2024

CMS names a drug when it has 11 or more claims. Share is of the claims for drugs CMS names.

Drug classes CMS tracks in Dr. Zell's Part D claims, 2024

  • Antibiotics25%174 of 710 claims

Share of all Part D claims for each drug class CMS reports on. Classes with no claims are left out.

Part D claims for drugs CMS names, 2023 to 2024

  • 2023
  • 2024
Claims for drugs CMS names
2023: 5472024: 65219%

Drugs named by CMS: 9 in 2024, 8 in 2023.

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Sources: Medicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider and Drug (CMS), 2024 data, released May 6, 2026; and Medicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider (CMS), 2024 data

Dr. Deborah E. Zell scored 100 out of 100 in Medicare's MIPS program for 2024

CMS publishes a Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) score of 100 out of 100 for Dr. Zell for performance year 2024, reported as part of a group. Dr. Zell accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment. CMS counts 607 procedures of skin biopsy by Dr. Zell, more than 97% of the clinicians it reports for that procedure.

Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes

Dr. Zell's MIPS scores, performance year 2024

  • 100of 100Final score
  • 100of 100Promoting Interoperability
  • 40of 100Improvement Activities

Each score is out of 100. The final score weighs the categories CMS scored for this clinician.

Where Dr. Zell ranks in Medicare procedure volume

Removal of skin cancer
91st percentile1,235 procedures
Removal of skin lesions
93rd percentile1,018 procedures
Skin biopsy
97th percentile607 procedures
Melanoma (skin cancer) excision
96th percentile161 procedures

CMS ranks each clinician against every clinician it reports for the same procedure category.

Sources: Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS); Clinician Public Reporting: Overall MIPS Performance (CMS), 2024 data, released September 10, 2026; and Doctors and Clinicians Utilization Data (CMS)

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Dr. Deborah E. Zell received $3,136 in industry payments from 2016 to 2025

CMS Open Payments shows 154 general payments to Dr. Zell from 30 drug and device companies from 2016 to 2025. Food and beverage make up the largest share, 100% of the total. Abbvie Inc. paid the most, $747.

General payments to Dr. Zell by program year, 2016 to 2025

Companies that paid Dr. Zell the most, 2016 to 2025

Share is of all general payments to this clinician.

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Source: Open Payments (CMS), 2025 data, released July 7, 2026

Dr. Deborah E. Zell graduated from Tulane University School of Medicine

Dr. Zell graduated from Tulane University School of Medicine in 2003.

  1. Medical schoolTulane University School of Medicine

Source: Dmand AI Professional Profile Data

Sources for Dr. Deborah E. Zell's profile data

Sources for the data on this page
Data on this pageSource
NPI, name, sex, specialty and licensesNPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Professional Profile Data
Practice locations and phoneNPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Practice Data
Primary practice, affiliations and health systemNPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Practice DataDmand AI Affiliation Data
Medicare services and procedure codesMedicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider and Service (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
State medians for the same specialtyDmand AI Peer Benchmarks
Medicare patients and the all-payer patient panelDmand AI Patient Panel DataMedicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
Part D prescribingMedicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider and Drug (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Medicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
MIPS scores, telehealth, assignment and procedure percentilesDoctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Clinician Public Reporting: Overall MIPS Performance (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Doctors and Clinicians Utilization Data (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
Industry paymentsOpen Payments (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
Training, board certification and membershipsDmand AI Professional Profile Data
EHR at each practice siteDmand AI Technology Install Data
Similar physiciansDmand AI Affiliation Data

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What is Dr. Deborah E. Zell's NPI number?

Dr. Deborah E. Zell's NPI number is 1063623148. It was assigned on May 24, 2007, and it is active in the NPI Registry.

What kind of doctor is Dr. Deborah E. Zell?

Dr. Deborah E. Zell is a mohs-micrographic surgery physician in Scottsdale, Arizona. The primary specialty in the NPI Registry is MOHS-Micrographic Surgery Physician (taxonomy code 207ND0101X).

Where does Dr. Deborah E. Zell practice?

Dr. Zell practices at 10200 N 92nd St, Scottsdale, AZ 85258. Dr. Zell's primary practice is Southwest Skin Specialists in Scottsdale, Arizona. Dmand AI also links Dr. Zell to 2 group practices and clinics and 1 medical group.

What is Dr. Deborah E. Zell's office phone number?

The practice phone on file for Dr. Zell is (602) 494-1817.

What is Dr. Deborah E. Zell's medical license number?

Dr. Zell holds Arizona license 43152.

What medical group is Dr. Deborah E. Zell part of?

Dr. Zell is linked to Southwest Skin Specialists. Dmand AI links Dr. Zell to 1 more medical group.

Does Dr. Deborah E. Zell accept Medicare?

Yes. CMS data shows Dr. Zell billed Medicare for 6,438 services in 2024, and Dr. Zell accepts Medicare assignment.

What is Dr. Deborah E. Zell's MIPS score?

Dr. Zell's MIPS final score for performance year 2024 is 100 out of 100, reported as part of a group.

How many Medicare patients does Dr. Deborah E. Zell see?

CMS counts 640 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Zell in 2024, with an average age of 78.

What services does Dr. Deborah E. Zell bill to Medicare?

In 2024, Dr. Zell's most billed Medicare services were surgery: skin and soft tissue (17003), office visit, established patient (99213) and surgery: skin and soft tissue (17311).

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Where did Dr. Deborah E. Zell go to medical school?

Dr. Zell graduated from Tulane University School of Medicine in 2003.

What drugs does Dr. Deborah E. Zell prescribe most?

In 2024 Medicare Part D data, Dr. Zell's most prescribed drugs by claims were Mupirocin, Cephalexin and Fluorouracil.

Has Dr. Deborah E. Zell received payments from drug or device companies?

CMS Open Payments shows $3,136 in general payments to Dr. Zell from 30 companies from 2016 to 2025. The largest total came from Abbvie Inc.

How long has Dr. Deborah E. Zell been practicing?

Dr. Zell graduated from medical school in 2003, 23 years ago.

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