Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr., MD

  • Stuart, FL
  • General surgeon
NPI1437157864PAC ID8921091356
Medicare services, 2024
552
Medicare patients, 2024
271
Part D claims, 2024
99
MIPS score, 2024
92
Hospital affiliations
1
Practice address
200 SE Hospital Ave, Stuart, FL 34994
Practice phone
Call (772) 287-5200
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Primary practice

Cleveland Clinic Martin North Hospital

Hospital · Stuart, Florida

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Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr. is a general surgeon in Stuart, Florida

Dr. Rittersbach practices at Cleveland Clinic Martin North Hospital in Stuart, Florida, part of The Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

Dr. Rittersbach's NPI, 1437157864, was assigned on July 11, 2005. Dr. Rittersbach graduated from New York University School of Medicine in 1983. Dr. Rittersbach holds Florida license ME0054997.

NPI and contact details
Medicare PAC ID
8921091356
NPI enumeration date
July 11, 2005
NPI status
Active
Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes
Practice phone
(772) 287-5200
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Sex
Male
Estimated age
69
Medical school graduation
1983

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

Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr. practices at Cleveland Clinic Martin North Hospital in Stuart, Florida

Dr. Rittersbach's primary practice is Cleveland Clinic Martin North Hospital, at 200 SE Hospital Ave, Stuart, FL 34994 in Martin County. The practice phone is (772) 287-5200.

Source: Dmand AI Affiliation Data

Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr. is affiliated with 1 site of care and 1 medical group

Dr. Rittersbach's primary practice is Cleveland Clinic Martin North Hospital in Stuart, Florida, part of The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. The medical group on file is Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Rittersbach's employer is on file too: a hospital.

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Dmand AI tracks the EHR system at Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr.'s practice

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

EHR by site
SiteEHR vendor and product
Cleveland Clinic Martin North HospitalAvailable with a free account

Source: Dmand AI Technology Install Data

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Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr. is one of 1,593 general surgeons in Florida

Surgery is Dr. Rittersbach's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 208600000X. Dmand AI has Dr. Rittersbach's licenses on file in 2 states: Florida and Texas.

Specialties and state licenses

  • Surgery, FloridaPrimaryLicense ME0054997 · 1989 to 2027 · taxonomy 208600000X
  • Texas license1989 to 1999

Clinical focus

Dmand AI lists abdominal adhesion surgery, abdominal hernia repair surgery, bladder removal, colonoscopy, colon removal, gastrointestinal bleeding, hemorrhoids and intestinal or bowel obstruction among the conditions Dr. Rittersbach treats.

General surgeons near Dr. Rittersbach

Counts of general surgeons with a Dmand AI profile, by place and practice. Each opens the list.

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Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr. billed Medicare for 552 services in 2024

CMS data shows 552 Medicare services from Dr. Rittersbach across 9 procedure codes in 2024, for 271 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $59,292 for them.

Medicare services, 2024552
Medicare patients271
Paid by Medicare$59,292
Procedure codes9

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

  • 2023
  • 2024
Office and hospital visits
2023: 4502024: 29634%
Surgery
2023: 2872024: 24216%
Other services
2023: 152024: 147%

Where Dr. Rittersbach's Medicare services took place, 2024

  • In an office49890%
  • In a facility5410%

Dr. Rittersbach compared with the Florida median for general surgeons, 2024

  • Dr. Rittersbach
  • Florida median
Medicare services
552vs 1982.8 times
Medicare patients
271vs 1332.0 times
Part D claims
46vs 437% above

Medians across 1,425 general surgeons in Florida with Dmand AI profiles that report each measure.

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

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

Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr. treated 271 Medicare patients in 2024, average age 74

CMS counts 271 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Rittersbach in 2024. The largest group is 65 to 74, with 121 patients. 75% of them have high cholesterol, and 70% have high blood pressure. 5% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 1.26, where 1.00 is the Medicare average.

Across all payers, Dmand AI patient panel data puts Dr. Rittersbach's median patient age at 64, with 48% women.

Medicare patients, 2024271
Average age74
Average risk score1.26
Also on Medicaid5%

Dr. Rittersbach's Medicare patients by age, 2024

Dr. Rittersbach's Medicare patients by sex, 2024

  • Women14855%
  • Men12345%

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

  1. High cholesterol75%
  2. High blood pressure70%
  3. Arthritis48%
  4. Cancer36%
  5. Ischemic heart disease32%
  6. Anxiety27%
  7. Atrial fibrillation26%
  8. Diabetes23%

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

Dr. Rittersbach's patients across all payers

Dmand AI patient panel data covers Medicare, Medicaid and commercial patients.

Patient panel by age, all payers

Median age 64

Patient panel by sex, all payers

  • Women48%
  • Men51%

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

Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr. wrote 99 Medicare Part D claims in 2024

In 2024, Dr. Rittersbach wrote 99 Medicare Part D claims for 70 patients. 78% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 46 of them, across 1 drug with 11 or more claims each, at $2,776 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 97 claims across 3 drugs.

Part D claims, 202499
Drugs named by CMS1
Total drug cost$2,776
Part D patients70

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

  • Generic77 claims78%
  • Brand-name and other22 claims22%

Dr. Rittersbach'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. Rittersbach's Part D claims, 2024

  • Antibiotics21%21 of 99 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: 972024: 4653%

Drugs named by CMS: 1 in 2024, 3 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. George Harold Rittersbach Jr. scored 92 out of 100 in Medicare's MIPS program for 2024

CMS publishes a Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) score of 92 out of 100 for Dr. Rittersbach for performance year 2024, reported through an alternative payment model (APM). Dr. Rittersbach accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment. CMS counts 57 procedures of colonoscopy by Dr. Rittersbach, more than 66% of the clinicians it reports for that procedure.

Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes

Dr. Rittersbach's MIPS scores, performance year 2024

  • 92of 100Final score
  • 80.2of 100Quality
  • 99of 100Promoting Interoperability
  • 40of 100Improvement Activities

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

Where Dr. Rittersbach ranks in Medicare procedure volume

Colonoscopy
66th percentile57 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. George Harold Rittersbach Jr. received $11,800 in industry payments from 2016 to 2023

CMS Open Payments shows 24 general payments to Dr. Rittersbach from 7 drug and device companies from 2016 to 2023. Education make up the largest share, 81% of the total. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. paid the most, $11,557.

General payments to Dr. Rittersbach by program year, 2016 to 2023

General payments to Dr. Rittersbach by kind, 2016 to 2023

$11.8Kin total
  • Education$9,50081%
  • Travel and lodging$1,50213%
  • Food and beverage$7847%
  • Gifts$140%

Companies that paid Dr. Rittersbach the most, 2016 to 2023

Share is of all general payments to this clinician.

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

Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr. has 1 award and honors on record

Dmand AI lists 1 award for Dr. Rittersbach, most recently CMS Stage 1 EHR in 2013.

Awards and honors for Dr. Rittersbach

  1. 2013
    • CMS Stage 1 EHR

Source: Dmand AI Professional Profile Data

Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr. graduated from New York University School of Medicine

Dr. Rittersbach graduated from New York University School of Medicine in 1983.

  1. Medical schoolNew York University School of Medicine

Source: Dmand AI Professional Profile Data

Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr. accepts plans from 14 insurance carriers

Dr. Rittersbach is in network with 14 carriers, including Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and United Healthcare. Medicare plans come from the most carriers, 9. Check the plan with the practice before a visit.

  • Aetna
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
  • United Healthcare
  • Cigna
  • Humana
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
  • HCSC
  • Regence Health Plans
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Plan types Dr. Rittersbach accepts, by number of carriers

  1. Medicare9
  2. PPO9
  3. HMO6
  4. POS5
  5. EPO2

Source: Dmand AI Insurance Network Data

Sources for Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr.'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 phoneDmand AI Affiliation Data
Primary practice, affiliations and health systemDmand AI Affiliation DataDmand AI Org Hierarchy 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)
Awards and committee rolesDmand AI Professional Profile Data
Training, board certification and membershipsDmand AI Professional Profile Data
Insurance carriers and plan typesDmand AI Insurance Network Data
EHR at each practice siteDmand AI Technology Install Data
Similar physiciansDmand AI Affiliation Data

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What is Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr.'s NPI number?

Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr.'s NPI number is 1437157864. It was assigned on July 11, 2005, and it is active in the NPI Registry.

What kind of doctor is Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr.?

Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr. is a general surgeon in Stuart, Florida. The primary specialty in the NPI Registry is Surgery Physician (taxonomy code 208600000X).

Where does Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr. practice?

Dr. Rittersbach practices at 200 SE Hospital Ave, Stuart, FL 34994. Dr. Rittersbach's primary practice is Cleveland Clinic Martin North Hospital in Stuart, Florida, part of The Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

What is Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr.'s office phone number?

The practice phone on file for Dr. Rittersbach is (772) 287-5200.

What is Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr.'s medical license number?

Dr. Rittersbach holds Florida license ME0054997, one of the licenses on file in 2 states.

Which states has Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr. been licensed in?

Dmand AI has state licenses on file for Dr. Rittersbach in Florida (1989 to 2027) and Texas (1989 to 1999).

Which hospitals is Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr. affiliated with?

Dr. Rittersbach practices at Cleveland Clinic Martin North Hospital in Stuart, Florida.

What medical group is Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr. part of?

Dr. Rittersbach is linked to Cleveland Clinic.

Does Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr. accept Medicare?

Yes. CMS data shows Dr. Rittersbach billed Medicare for 552 services in 2024, and Dr. Rittersbach accepts Medicare assignment.

What is Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr.'s MIPS score?

Dr. Rittersbach's MIPS final score for performance year 2024 is 92 out of 100, reported through an alternative payment model (APM).

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How many Medicare patients does Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr. see?

CMS counts 271 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Rittersbach in 2024, with an average age of 74.

What services does Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr. bill to Medicare?

In 2024, Dr. Rittersbach's most billed Medicare services were office visit, established patient (99214), surgery: digestive system (46600) and office visit, new patient (99203).

Where did Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr. go to medical school?

Dr. Rittersbach graduated from New York University School of Medicine in 1983.

What drugs does Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr. prescribe most?

In 2024 Medicare Part D data, Dr. Rittersbach's most prescribed drugs by claims were Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag Sulf.

Has Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr. received payments from drug or device companies?

CMS Open Payments shows $11,800 in general payments to Dr. Rittersbach from 7 companies from 2016 to 2023. The largest total came from Intuitive Surgical, Inc.

How long has Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr. been practicing?

Dr. Rittersbach graduated from medical school in 1983, 43 years ago.

What insurance does Dr. George Harold Rittersbach Jr. accept?

Dr. Rittersbach is in network with 14 carriers, including Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and United Healthcare. Medicare plans come from the most carriers, 9. Check the plan with the practice before a visit.

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