Audrey Ertel

  • Erlanger, KY
  • General surgeon
NPI1417213547PAC ID8022258953
Medicare services, 2024
188
Medicare patients, 2024
154
Part D claims, 2024
127
Publications
26
MIPS score, 2024
93
Practice address
1360 Dolwick Drive, Erlanger, KY 41018
Practice phone
Call (859) 344-5555
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Primary practice

Virtual Health Center - Dolwick

Urgent Care Center · Erlanger, Kentucky

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Audrey Ertel is a general surgeon in Erlanger, Kentucky

Audrey Ertel practices at Virtual Health Center - Dolwick in Erlanger, Kentucky.

Audrey Ertel's NPI, 1417213547, was assigned on April 3, 2012. Audrey Ertel graduated from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in 2012. Audrey Ertel holds Kentucky license 52529.

NPI and contact details
Medicare PAC ID
8022258953
NPI enumeration date
April 3, 2012
NPI status
Active
Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes
Practice phone
(859) 344-5555
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Sex
Female
Estimated age
40
Medical school graduation
2012

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

Audrey Ertel practices at Virtual Health Center - Dolwick in Erlanger, Kentucky

Audrey Ertel's primary practice is Virtual Health Center - Dolwick, at 1360 Dolwick Drive, Erlanger, KY 41018. The practice phone is (859) 344-5555.

  • Virtual Health Center - Dolwick
    1360 Dolwick Drive, Erlanger, KY 41018Phone(859) 344-5555

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Audrey Ertel is affiliated with 4 sites of care and 1 medical group

Audrey Ertel's primary practice is Virtual Health Center - Dolwick in Erlanger, Kentucky. Audrey Ertel is also affiliated with St. Elizabeth Healthcare Edgewood Hospital. The medical group on file is St. Elizabeth Physicians. Dmand AI also links Audrey Ertel to 2 more hospitals, each named with a free account. Audrey Ertel's employer is on file too: an urgent care center.

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Dmand AI tracks the EHR system at Audrey Ertel's practice

Dmand AI tracks the electronic health record (EHR) system at each site where Audrey Ertel practices, 4 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.

EHR by site
SiteEHR vendor and product
Virtual Health Center - DolwickAvailable with a free account
+3 more affiliated sitesAvailable with a free account

Source: Dmand AI Technology Install Data

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Audrey Ertel is one of 383 general surgeons in Kentucky

Surgery is Audrey Ertel's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 208600000X. Audrey Ertel is licensed in Kentucky.

Specialties and state licenses

  • Surgery, KentuckyPrimaryLicense 52529 · taxonomy 208600000X

General surgeons near Audrey Ertel

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Audrey Ertel billed Medicare for 188 services in 2024

CMS data shows 188 Medicare services from Audrey Ertel across 5 procedure codes in 2024, for 154 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $15,915 for them.

Medicare services, 2024188
Medicare patients154
Paid by Medicare$15,915
Procedure codes5

Audrey Ertel's Medicare services by type, 2023 to 2024

  • 2023
  • 2024
Office and hospital visits
2023: 1602024: 18818%
Surgery
2023: 172024: 0100%

Where Audrey Ertel's Medicare services took place, 2024

  • In an office11461%
  • In a facility7439%

Audrey Ertel compared with the Kentucky median for general surgeons, 2024

  • Audrey Ertel
  • Kentucky median
Medicare services
188vs 2027% below
Medicare patients
154vs 147Close to median
Part D claims
77vs 837% below

Medians across 373 general surgeons in Kentucky with Dmand AI profiles that report each measure.

Audrey Ertel'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

Audrey Ertel treated 154 Medicare patients in 2024, average age 74

CMS counts 154 Medicare patients who saw Audrey Ertel in 2024. The largest group is 65 to 74, with 70 patients. 75% of them have high blood pressure, and 75% have high cholesterol. 14% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 1.65, where 1.00 is the Medicare average, so they are sicker than most Medicare patients.

Across all payers, Dmand AI patient panel data puts Audrey Ertel's median patient age at 60, with 59% women.

Medicare patients, 2024154
Average age74
Average risk score1.65
Also on Medicaid14%

Audrey Ertel's Medicare patients by age, 2024

Audrey Ertel's Medicare patients by sex, 2024

  • Women8354%
  • Men7146%

Chronic conditions among Audrey Ertel's Medicare patients, 2024

  1. High blood pressure75%
  2. High cholesterol75%
  3. Arthritis60%
  4. Anxiety40%
  5. Chronic kidney disease40%
  6. Mood disorders40%
  7. Ischemic heart disease38%
  8. Depression37%

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

Audrey Ertel's patients across all payers

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Patient panel by age, all payers

Median age 60

Patient panel by sex, all payers

  • Women59%
  • Men41%

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

Audrey Ertel wrote 127 Medicare Part D claims in 2024

In 2024, Audrey Ertel wrote 127 Medicare Part D claims for 89 patients. 99% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 77 of them, across 2 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $205 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 49 claims across 1 drug.

Part D claims, 2024127
Drugs named by CMS2
Total drug cost$205
Part D patients89

Audrey Ertel's Part D claims by kind of drug, 2024

  • Generic126 claims99%
  • Brand-name and other1 claims1%

Audrey Ertel'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 Audrey Ertel's Part D claims, 2024

  • Opioids65%83 of 127 claims
  • Antibiotics15%19 of 127 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: 492024: 7757%

Drugs named by CMS: 2 in 2024, 1 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

Audrey Ertel scored 93 out of 100 in Medicare's MIPS program for 2024

CMS publishes a Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) score of 93 out of 100 for Audrey Ertel for performance year 2024, reported through an alternative payment model (APM). Audrey Ertel accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment. CMS counts 11 procedures of hernia repair (minimally invasive) by Audrey Ertel, more than 72% of the clinicians it reports for that procedure.

Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes

Audrey Ertel's MIPS scores, performance year 2024

  • 93of 100Final score
  • 86of 100Quality
  • 100of 100Promoting Interoperability
  • 40of 100Improvement Activities

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

Where Audrey Ertel ranks in Medicare procedure volume

Removal of tissue
63rd percentile12 procedures
Hernia repair (minimally invasive)
72nd percentile11 procedures

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

Colonoscopy: 1 to 10 procedures (CMS shows small counts as a range)

Melanoma (skin cancer) excision: 1 to 10 procedures (CMS shows small counts as a range)

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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Audrey Ertel has 26 publications on record

Dmand AI links 26 papers to Audrey Ertel, published from 2015 to 2019. 2016 was the busiest year, with 12. The most frequent topics are Liver Transplantation, Hospital Costs and Hospitals. Audrey Ertel has published most often in Surgery. Audrey Ertel's most frequent co-authors are Shimul A. Shah, MD, Daniel Erik Abbott, MD and Richard Hoehn, MD.

Papers26
Years published2015 to 2019

Audrey Ertel's papers by year, 2015 to 2019

Topics Audrey Ertel writes about most

  • Liver Transplantation
  • Hospital Costs
  • Hospitals
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
  • End Stage Liver Disease
  • Hospital Mortality
  • Liver Neoplasms
  • Postoperative Complications

Audrey Ertel's most frequent co-authors

Recent publications by Audrey Ertel

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Sources: PubMed (National Library of Medicine); and Dmand AI Research Linkage

Audrey Ertel received $5,373 in industry payments from 2016 to 2024

CMS Open Payments shows 13 general payments to Audrey Ertel from 5 drug and device companies from 2016 to 2024. Education make up the largest share, 76% of the total. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. paid the most, $5,259.

General payments to Audrey Ertel by program year, 2016 to 2024

General payments to Audrey Ertel by kind, 2016 to 2024

$5.4Kin total
  • Education$4,07376%
  • Travel and lodging$1,01419%
  • Food and beverage$2865%

Companies that paid Audrey Ertel the most, 2016 to 2024

Share is of all general payments to this clinician.

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

Audrey Ertel graduated from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University

Audrey Ertel graduated from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in 2012.

  1. Medical schoolJefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University

Source: Dmand AI Professional Profile Data

Sources for Audrey Ertel'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)
Publications, topics and co-authorsPubMed (National Library of Medicine) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Research Linkage
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 Audrey Ertel's NPI number?

Audrey Ertel's NPI number is 1417213547. It was assigned on April 3, 2012, and it is active in the NPI Registry.

What does Audrey Ertel specialize in?

Audrey Ertel is a general surgeon in Erlanger, Kentucky. The primary specialty in the NPI Registry is Surgery Physician (taxonomy code 208600000X).

Where does Audrey Ertel practice?

Audrey Ertel practices at 1360 Dolwick Drive, Erlanger, KY 41018. Audrey Ertel's primary practice is Virtual Health Center - Dolwick in Erlanger, Kentucky. Dmand AI also links Audrey Ertel to 2 hospitals.

What is Audrey Ertel's office phone number?

The practice phone on file for Audrey Ertel is (859) 344-5555.

What is Audrey Ertel's medical license number?

Audrey Ertel holds Kentucky license 52529.

Which hospitals is Audrey Ertel affiliated with?

Audrey Ertel is affiliated with St. Elizabeth Healthcare Edgewood Hospital. Dmand AI links Audrey Ertel to 2 more hospitals.

What medical group is Audrey Ertel part of?

Audrey Ertel is linked to St. Elizabeth Physicians.

Does Audrey Ertel accept Medicare?

Yes. CMS data shows Audrey Ertel billed Medicare for 188 services in 2024, and Audrey Ertel accepts Medicare assignment.

What is Audrey Ertel's MIPS score?

Audrey Ertel's MIPS final score for performance year 2024 is 93 out of 100, reported through an alternative payment model (APM).

How many Medicare patients does Audrey Ertel see?

CMS counts 154 Medicare patients who saw Audrey Ertel in 2024, with an average age of 74.

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What services does Audrey Ertel bill to Medicare?

In 2024, Audrey Ertel's most billed Medicare services were office visit, new patient (99204), hospital inpatient care (99231) and hospital inpatient care (99222).

Where did Audrey Ertel go to medical school?

Audrey Ertel graduated from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in 2012.

What drugs does Audrey Ertel prescribe most?

In 2024 Medicare Part D data, Audrey Ertel's most prescribed drugs by claims were Oxycodone HCl and Tramadol HCl.

Has Audrey Ertel received payments from drug or device companies?

CMS Open Payments shows $5,373 in general payments to Audrey Ertel from 5 companies from 2016 to 2024. The largest total came from Intuitive Surgical, Inc.

How long has Audrey Ertel been practicing?

Audrey Ertel graduated from medical school in 2012, 14 years ago.

Does Audrey Ertel do research?

Dmand AI links 26 publications to Audrey Ertel, published from 2015 to 2019.

Who does Audrey Ertel publish with?

Audrey Ertel's most frequent co-authors are Shimul A. Shah, MD (24 shared papers), Daniel Erik Abbott, MD (19 shared papers) and Richard Hoehn, MD (17 shared papers).

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