Dr. Joseph Ward Dougherty, MD

Dr. Dougherty practices at Mount Desert Island Hospital in Bar Harbor, Maine, part of Mount Desert Island Hospital.

Dr. Dougherty's NPI, 1790911550, was assigned on June 8, 2009. Dr. Dougherty holds Maine license MD21005.

Dr. Dougherty's primary practice is Mount Desert Island Hospital, at 10 Wayman Lane, Bar Harbor, ME 04609 in Hancock County. The practice phone is (207) 288-5081.

Dr. Dougherty's primary practice is Mount Desert Island Hospital in Bar Harbor, Maine, part of Mount Desert Island Hospital. The medical group on file is Mount Desert Island Hospital. Dmand AI also links Dr. Dougherty to 3 more medical groups, 1 group practice or clinic and 1 therapy and rehab clinic, each named with a free account. Dr. Dougherty's employer is on file too: a hospital.

Dmand AI tracks the electronic health record (EHR) system at each site where Dr. Dougherty practices, 3 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.

Surgery is Dr. Dougherty's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 208600000X. Dr. Dougherty is licensed in Maine.

CMS data shows 23 Medicare services from Dr. Dougherty across 2 procedure codes in 2023, all of them office visits, for 19 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $1,021 for them. Every service was in an office.

CMS counts 19 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Dougherty in 2024. The largest group is under 65, with 0 patients. 75% of them have high blood pressure, and 74% have high cholesterol. Their average risk score is 1.60, where 1.00 is the Medicare average, so they are sicker than most Medicare patients.

Across all payers, Dmand AI patient panel data puts Dr. Dougherty's median patient age at 64, with 45% women.

In 2024, Dr. Dougherty wrote 77 Medicare Part D claims for 34 patients. 96% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 34 of them, across 3 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $690 in total drug cost. In 2022, CMS named 117 claims across 5 drugs.

CMS publishes a Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) score of 97 out of 100 for Dr. Dougherty for performance year 2024, reported through an alternative payment model (APM). Dr. Dougherty accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment. CMS counts 11 procedures of upper gastrointestinal (gi) endoscopy for acid reflux by Dr. Dougherty, more than 42% of the clinicians it reports for that procedure.

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

Dmand AI links 2 papers to Dr. Dougherty, published from 2014 to 2021. Dr. Dougherty's most frequent co-authors are Bhakti Hansoti, Ryan Scott Jackson, MD and Stephen Y. Kang, MD.

CMS Open Payments shows 3 general payments to Dr. Dougherty from 3 drug and device companies from 2019 to 2025. Food and beverage make up the largest share, 100% of the total. Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. paid the most, $18.