Deborah Ann Higer
- Medicare services, 2024
- 731
- Medicare patients, 2024
- 199
- Part D claims, 2024
- 5,876
- Hospital affiliations
- 2
- Industry payments
- $645
- Practice address
- 725 Pine St, Mount Shasta, CA 96067
- Practice phone
- Call (530) 926-4556
- Professional email
- Get professional email
- Personal email
- Get personal email
- Mobile number
- Get mobile number
Primary practice
Shasta Family Care
Rural Health Clinic - Independent · Mount Shasta, California
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Deborah Ann Higer is a family medicine physician in Mount Shasta, California
Deborah Higer practices at Shasta Family Care in Mount Shasta, California.
Deborah Higer's NPI, 1437245701, was assigned on October 5, 2006. Deborah Higer graduated from Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine - Rochester in 1990. Deborah Higer holds California license G42167.
- NPI
- 1437245701NPI Registry (opens in a new tab)
- Medicare PAC ID
- 6305930850
- NPI enumeration date
- October 5, 2006
- NPI status
- Active
- Accepts Medicare assignment
- Yes
- Practice phone
- (530) 926-4556
- Professional email
- Get email
- Personal email
- Get email
- Mobile number
- Get number
- Sex
- Female
- Estimated age
- 62
- Medical school graduation
- 1990
Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; Dmand AI Affiliation Data; and Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS)
Deborah Ann Higer practices at Shasta Family Care in Mount Shasta, California
Deborah Higer's primary practice is Shasta Family Care, at 725 Pine St, Mount Shasta, CA 96067. The practice phone is (530) 926-4556.
- Shasta Family Care725 Pine St, Mount Shasta, CA 96067Phone(530) 926-4556
Source: Dmand AI Affiliation Data
Deborah Ann Higer is affiliated with 5 sites of care
Deborah Higer's primary practice is Shasta Family Care in Mount Shasta, California. Deborah Higer is also affiliated with Dignity Health - Mercy Medical Center Mount Shasta. Dmand AI also links Deborah Higer to 1 more hospital, 1 hospice and 1 skilled nursing facility, each named with a free account. Deborah Higer's employer is on file too: a rural health clinic (rhc).
Sources: Dmand AI Affiliation Data; and Dmand AI Org Hierarchy Data
Dmand AI tracks the EHR system at Deborah Ann Higer's practice
Dmand AI tracks the electronic health record (EHR) system at each site where Deborah Higer practices, 5 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.
| Site | EHR vendor and product |
|---|---|
| Shasta Family Care | Available with a free account |
| +4 more affiliated sites | Available with a free account |
Source: Dmand AI Technology Install Data
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Deborah Ann Higer is one of 15,680 family medicine physicians in California
Family medicine is Deborah Higer's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 207Q00000X. Deborah Higer is board certified in family medicine by the American Board of Family Medicine. Dmand AI has Deborah Higer's licenses on file in 4 states: California, Arizona, Idaho and Ohio.
Specialties and state licenses
- Family medicine, CaliforniaPrimary
- Arizona license
- Idaho license
- Ohio license
Clinical focus
Dmand AI lists acid reflux, acute gastroduodenitis, acute mini-stroke (TIA), acute sinusitis, acute skin infection, adjustment disease, alcohol use disorders and alzheimer's disease among the conditions Deborah Higer treats.
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Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; and Dmand AI Peer Benchmarks
Deborah Ann Higer billed Medicare for 731 services in 2024
CMS data shows 731 Medicare services from Deborah Higer across 6 procedure codes in 2024, for 199 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $54,087 for them. Every service was in an office.
Deborah Higer's Medicare services by type, 2023 to 2024
- 2023
- 2024
- Office and hospital visits
- 2023: 5772024: 66014%
- Surgery
- 2023: 612024: 7116%
Deborah Higer compared with the California median for family medicine physicians, 2024
- Deborah Higer
- California median
- Medicare services
- 731vs 2463.0 times
- Medicare patients
- 199vs 11869% above
- Part D claims
- 5,303vs 8336.4 times
Medians across 15,349 family medicine physicians in California with Dmand AI profiles that report each measure.
Deborah Higer'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
Deborah Ann Higer treated 199 Medicare patients in 2024, average age 79
CMS counts 199 Medicare patients who saw Deborah Higer in 2024. The largest group is 75 to 84, with 71 patients. 75% of them have high blood pressure, and 64% have high cholesterol. 47% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 1.46, where 1.00 is the Medicare average.
Across all payers, Dmand AI patient panel data puts Deborah Higer's median patient age at 69, with 61% women.
Deborah Higer's Medicare patients by age, 2024
CMS leaves out age groups with fewer than 11 patients.
Deborah Higer's Medicare patients by sex, 2024
- Women13166%
- Men6834%
Chronic conditions among Deborah Higer's Medicare patients, 2024
- High blood pressure75%
- High cholesterol64%
- Arthritis52%
- Mood disorders43%
- Depression40%
- Atrial fibrillation30%
- Ischemic heart disease29%
- Alzheimer's and dementia28%
Share of Medicare patients with each condition. A patient can have several.
Deborah Higer's patients across all payers
Dmand AI patient panel data covers Medicare, Medicaid and commercial patients.
Patient panel by age, all payers
Median age 69
Patient panel by sex, all payers
- Women61%
- Men38%
Sources: Dmand AI Patient Panel Data; and Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS), 2024 data
Deborah Ann Higer wrote 5,876 Medicare Part D claims in 2024
In 2024, Deborah Higer wrote 5,876 Medicare Part D claims for 308 patients. 89% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 5,303 of them, across 102 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $324,846 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 4,961 claims across 98 drugs.
Deborah Higer's Part D claims by kind of drug, 2024
- Generic5,209 claims89%
- Brand-name630 claims11%
- Other37 claims1%
Deborah Higer'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 Deborah Higer's Part D claims, 2024
- Opioids9%502 of 5,876 claims
- Antibiotics4%207 of 5,876 claims
- Antipsychotics, patients 65 and over1%69 of 5,876 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: 4,9612024: 5,3037%
Drugs named by CMS: 102 in 2024, 98 in 2023.
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
Deborah Ann Higer ranks in the 72nd percentile for removal of skin lesions in Medicare
Deborah Higer accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment. CMS counts 54 procedures of removal of skin lesions by Deborah Higer, more than 72% of the clinicians it reports for that procedure.
- Accepts Medicare assignment
- Yes
Where Deborah Higer ranks in Medicare procedure volume
- Removal of skin lesions
- 72nd percentile54 procedures
CMS ranks each clinician against every clinician it reports for the same procedure category.
Sources: Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS); and Doctors and Clinicians Utilization Data (CMS)
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Deborah Ann Higer received $645 in industry payments from 2016 to 2024
CMS Open Payments shows 32 general payments to Deborah Higer from 17 drug and device companies from 2016 to 2024. Food and beverage make up the largest share, 100% of the total. Sanofi and Genzyme US Companies paid the most, $155.
General payments to Deborah Higer by program year, 2016 to 2024
Companies that paid Deborah Higer the most, 2016 to 2024
Share is of all general payments to this clinician.
Source: Open Payments (CMS), 2025 data, released July 7, 2026
Deborah Ann Higer graduated from Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine - Rochester
Deborah Higer graduated from Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine - Rochester in 1990.
- Medical school
- Board certified in family medicine
Source: Dmand AI Professional Profile Data
Deborah Ann Higer accepts plans from 15 insurance carriers
Deborah Higer is in network with 15 carriers, including United Healthcare, Elevance and HCSC. PPO plans come from the most carriers, 9. Check the plan with the practice before a visit.
- United Healthcare
- Elevance
- HCSC
- Aetna
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
- Regence Health Plans
- Alliant Health Plans
- +7 more carriersWith a free account
Plan types Deborah Higer accepts, by number of carriers
- PPO9
- HMO6
- Medicare6
- EPO3
- POS2
- Medicaid1
Source: Dmand AI Insurance Network Data
Sources for Deborah Ann Higer's profile data
| Data on this page | Source |
|---|---|
| NPI, name, sex, specialty and licenses | NPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Professional Profile Data |
| Practice locations and phone | Dmand AI Affiliation Data |
| Primary practice, affiliations and health system | Dmand AI Affiliation DataDmand AI Org Hierarchy Data |
| Medicare services and procedure codes | Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider and Service (CMS) (opens in a new tab) |
| State medians for the same specialty | Dmand AI Peer Benchmarks |
| Medicare patients and the all-payer patient panel | Dmand AI Patient Panel DataMedicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS) (opens in a new tab) |
| Part D prescribing | Medicare 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 percentiles | Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Doctors and Clinicians Utilization Data (CMS) (opens in a new tab) |
| Industry payments | Open Payments (CMS) (opens in a new tab) |
| Training, board certification and memberships | Dmand AI Professional Profile Data |
| Insurance carriers and plan types | Dmand AI Insurance Network Data |
| EHR at each practice site | Dmand AI Technology Install Data |
| Similar physicians | Dmand AI Affiliation Data |
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What is Deborah Ann Higer's NPI number?
Deborah Ann Higer's NPI number is 1437245701. It was assigned on October 5, 2006, and it is active in the NPI Registry.
What does Deborah Ann Higer specialize in?
Deborah Ann Higer is a family medicine physician in Mount Shasta, California. The primary specialty in the NPI Registry is Family Medicine Physician (taxonomy code 207Q00000X).
Where does Deborah Ann Higer practice?
Deborah Higer practices at 725 Pine St, Mount Shasta, CA 96067. Deborah Higer's primary practice is Shasta Family Care in Mount Shasta, California. Dmand AI also links Deborah Higer to 1 hospital, 1 hospice and 1 skilled nursing facility.
What is Deborah Ann Higer's office phone number?
The practice phone on file for Deborah Higer is (530) 926-4556.
What is Deborah Ann Higer's medical license number?
Deborah Higer holds California license G42167, one of the licenses on file in 4 states.
Which states has Deborah Ann Higer been licensed in?
Dmand AI has state licenses on file for Deborah Higer in California (1991 to 2027), Arizona (since 1996), Idaho (since 1996) and Ohio (2024 to 2026).
Which hospitals is Deborah Ann Higer affiliated with?
Deborah Higer is affiliated with Dignity Health - Mercy Medical Center Mount Shasta. Dmand AI links Deborah Higer to 1 more hospital.
Does Deborah Ann Higer accept Medicare?
Yes. CMS data shows Deborah Higer billed Medicare for 731 services in 2024, and Deborah Higer accepts Medicare assignment.
How many Medicare patients does Deborah Ann Higer see?
CMS counts 199 Medicare patients who saw Deborah Higer in 2024, with an average age of 79.
Is Deborah Ann Higer board certified?
Yes. Deborah Higer is board certified in family medicine by the American Board of Family Medicine.
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What services does Deborah Ann Higer bill to Medicare?
In 2024, Deborah Higer's most billed Medicare services were nursing facility care (99308), nursing facility care (99309) and nursing facility care (99306).
Where did Deborah Ann Higer go to medical school?
Deborah Higer graduated from Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine - Rochester in 1990.
What drugs does Deborah Ann Higer prescribe most?
In 2024 Medicare Part D data, Deborah Higer's most prescribed drugs by claims were Atorvastatin Calcium, Levothyroxine Sodium and Celecoxib.
Has Deborah Ann Higer received payments from drug or device companies?
CMS Open Payments shows $645 in general payments to Deborah Higer from 17 companies from 2016 to 2024. The largest total came from Sanofi and Genzyme US Companies.
How long has Deborah Ann Higer been practicing?
Deborah Higer graduated from medical school in 1990, 36 years ago.
What insurance does Deborah Ann Higer accept?
Deborah Higer is in network with 15 carriers, including United Healthcare, Elevance and HCSC. PPO plans come from the most carriers, 9. Check the plan with the practice before a visit.
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