Dr. John Fair Lucas III, MD

  • Greenwood, MS
  • General surgeon
NPI1093734840PAC ID0345426672
Medicare services, 2024
656
Medicare patients, 2024
385
Part D claims, 2024
490
Publications
6
Clinical trials
2
Practice address
501 W Washington St, Greenwood, MS 38930
Practice phone
Call (662) 453-4641
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Primary practice

Lucas Surgical Group

Greenwood, Mississippi

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Dr. John Fair Lucas III is a general surgeon in Greenwood, Mississippi

Dr. Lucas practices at Lucas Surgical Group in Greenwood, Mississippi.

Dr. Lucas' NPI, 1093734840, was assigned on July 19, 2006. Dr. Lucas graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1981. Dr. Lucas holds Mississippi license 09898.

NPI and contact details
Medicare PAC ID
0345426672
NPI enumeration date
July 19, 2006
NPI status
Active
Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes
Practice phone
(662) 453-4641
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Sex
Male
Estimated age
71
Medical school graduation
1981

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

Dr. John Fair Lucas III practices at Lucas Surgical Group in Greenwood, Mississippi

Dr. Lucas' primary practice is Lucas Surgical Group, at 501 W Washington St, Greenwood, MS 38930 in Leflore County. The practice phone is (662) 453-4641.

  • Lucas Surgical Group
    501 W Washington St, Greenwood, MS 38930 · Leflore CountyPhone(662) 453-4641

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

Dr. John Fair Lucas III is affiliated with 4 sites of care and 1 medical group

Dr. Lucas' primary practice is Lucas Surgical Group in Greenwood, Mississippi. Dr. Lucas is also affiliated with UMMC Greenwood. The medical group on file is Lucas Surgical Group, P.A. Dmand AI also links Dr. Lucas to 1 more hospital and 1 group practice or clinic, 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. John Fair Lucas III's practice

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

EHR by site
SiteEHR vendor and product
Lucas Surgical GroupAvailable with a free account
+3 more affiliated sitesAvailable with a free account

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Dr. John Fair Lucas III is one of 223 general surgeons in Mississippi

Surgery is Dr. Lucas' primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 208600000X. Dr. Lucas is licensed in Mississippi.

Specialties and state licenses

  • Surgery, MississippiPrimaryLicense 09898 · taxonomy 208600000X

General surgeons near Dr. Lucas

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

223general surgeons in Mississippi
2general surgeons in Greenwood

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

Dr. John Fair Lucas III billed Medicare for 656 services in 2024

CMS data shows 656 Medicare services from Dr. Lucas across 13 procedure codes in 2024, for 385 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $140,895 for them.

Medicare services, 2024656
Medicare patients385
Paid by Medicare$140,895
Procedure codes13

Dr. Lucas' Medicare services by type, 2023 to 2024

  • 2023
  • 2024
Office and hospital visits
2023: 3482024: 3422%
Surgery
2023: 3212024: 25720%
Tests and treatments
2023: 902024: 5737%

Where Dr. Lucas' Medicare services took place, 2024

  • In an office579%
  • In a facility59991%

Dr. Lucas compared with the Mississippi median for general surgeons, 2024

  • Dr. Lucas
  • Mississippi median
Medicare services
656vs 2932.2 times
Medicare patients
385vs 1852.1 times
Part D claims
460vs 696.7 times

Medians across 207 general surgeons in Mississippi with Dmand AI profiles that report each measure.

Dr. Lucas' 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. John Fair Lucas III treated 385 Medicare patients in 2024, average age 68

CMS counts 385 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Lucas in 2024. The largest group is under 65, with 128 patients. 75% of them have chronic kidney disease, and 75% have high blood pressure. 50% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 6.14, 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. Lucas' median patient age at 64, with 48% women.

Medicare patients, 2024385
Average age68
Average risk score6.14
Also on Medicaid50%

Dr. Lucas' Medicare patients by age, 2024

Dr. Lucas' Medicare patients by sex, 2024

  • Women18247%
  • Men20353%

Chronic conditions among Dr. Lucas' Medicare patients, 2024

  1. Chronic kidney disease75%
  2. High blood pressure75%
  3. High cholesterol75%
  4. Diabetes61%
  5. Heart failure50%
  6. Arthritis46%
  7. Ischemic heart disease42%
  8. Atrial fibrillation26%

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

Dr. Lucas' patients across all payers

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Patient panel by age, all payers

Median age 64

Patient panel by sex, all payers

  • Women48%
  • Men52%

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

Dr. John Fair Lucas III wrote 490 Medicare Part D claims in 2024

In 2024, Dr. Lucas wrote 490 Medicare Part D claims for 358 patients. 100% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 460 of them, across 4 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $1,544 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 463 claims across 5 drugs.

Part D claims, 2024490
Drugs named by CMS4
Total drug cost$1,544
Part D patients358

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

  • Generic489 claims100%
  • Brand-name and other1 claims0%

Dr. Lucas' 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. Lucas' Part D claims, 2024

  • Opioids88%432 of 490 claims
  • Antibiotics3%13 of 490 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: 4632024: 4601%

Drugs named by CMS: 4 in 2024, 5 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. John Fair Lucas III 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. Lucas for performance year 2024, reported individually. Dr. Lucas accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment.

Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes

Dr. Lucas' MIPS scores, performance year 2024

  • 100of 100Final score
  • 99.2of 100Quality
  • 40of 100Improvement Activities
  • 79of 100Cost

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

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

Removal of nail tissue: 1 to 10 procedures (CMS shows small counts as a range)

Removal or shaving of skin growth: 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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Dr. John Fair Lucas III has 6 publications on record

Dmand AI links 6 papers to Dr. Lucas, published from 2021 to 2025. 2021 was the busiest year, with 2. The most frequent topics are Arteriovenous Shunt, Surgical, Renal Dialysis and Vascular Patency. Dr. Lucas has published most often in J Vasc Access. Dr. Lucas' most frequent co-authors are Ellen D. Dillavou, MD, Alik Farber, MD and Dirk M. Hentschel, MD.

Papers6
Years published2021 to 2025

Dr. Lucas' papers by year, 2021 to 2025

Topics Dr. Lucas writes about most

  • Arteriovenous Shunt, Surgical
  • Renal Dialysis
  • Vascular Patency

Dr. Lucas' most frequent co-authors

Recent publications by Dr. Lucas

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

Dr. John Fair Lucas III has worked on 2 clinical trials

Dmand AI links Dr. Lucas to 2 clinical trials. 1 is still active or recruiting. Conditions studied include Kidney Failure, Chronic and Renal Insufficiency, Chronic. W.L.Gore & Associates sponsors the most, 2.

Conditions in Dr. Lucas' trials

  • Kidney Failure, Chronic
  • Renal Insufficiency, Chronic

Investigators on the most trials with Dr. Lucas

Recent clinical trials with Dr. Lucas

Sources: Dmand AI Research Linkage; and ClinicalTrials.gov (National Library of Medicine)

Dr. John Fair Lucas III received $24,257 in industry payments from 2016 to 2024

CMS Open Payments shows 90 general payments to Dr. Lucas from 15 drug and device companies from 2016 to 2024. Consulting fees make up the largest share, 57% of the total. LeMaitre Vascular, Inc. paid the most, $16,605.

General payments to Dr. Lucas by program year, 2016 to 2024

General payments to Dr. Lucas by kind, 2016 to 2024

$24.3Kin total
  • Consulting fees$13,92557%
  • Food and beverage$4,07817%
  • Speaker and faculty fees$4,00016%
  • Travel and lodging$1,8838%
  • Other$3712%

Companies that paid Dr. Lucas 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

Dr. John Fair Lucas III graduated from Duke University School of Medicine

Dr. Lucas graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1981.

  1. Medical schoolDuke University School of Medicine

Source: Dmand AI Professional Profile Data

Sources for Dr. John Fair Lucas III'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)
Publications, topics and co-authorsPubMed (National Library of Medicine) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Research Linkage
Clinical trials and co-investigatorsDmand AI Research LinkageClinicalTrials.gov (National Library of Medicine) (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. John Fair Lucas III's NPI number?

Dr. John Fair Lucas III's NPI number is 1093734840. It was assigned on July 19, 2006, and it is active in the NPI Registry.

What kind of doctor is Dr. John Fair Lucas III?

Dr. John Fair Lucas III is a general surgeon in Greenwood, Mississippi. The primary specialty in the NPI Registry is Surgery Physician (taxonomy code 208600000X).

Where does Dr. John Fair Lucas III practice?

Dr. Lucas practices at 501 W Washington St, Greenwood, MS 38930. Dr. Lucas' primary practice is Lucas Surgical Group in Greenwood, Mississippi. Dmand AI also links Dr. Lucas to 1 hospital and 1 group practice or clinic.

What is Dr. John Fair Lucas III's office phone number?

The practice phone on file for Dr. Lucas is (662) 453-4641.

What is Dr. John Fair Lucas III's medical license number?

Dr. Lucas holds Mississippi license 09898.

Which hospitals is Dr. John Fair Lucas III affiliated with?

Dr. Lucas is affiliated with UMMC Greenwood. Dmand AI links Dr. Lucas to 1 more hospital.

What medical group is Dr. John Fair Lucas III part of?

Dr. Lucas is linked to Lucas Surgical Group, P.A.

Does Dr. John Fair Lucas III accept Medicare?

Yes. CMS data shows Dr. Lucas billed Medicare for 656 services in 2024, and Dr. Lucas accepts Medicare assignment.

What is Dr. John Fair Lucas III's MIPS score?

Dr. Lucas' MIPS final score for performance year 2024 is 100 out of 100, reported individually.

How many Medicare patients does Dr. John Fair Lucas III see?

CMS counts 385 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Lucas in 2024, with an average age of 68.

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What services does Dr. John Fair Lucas III bill to Medicare?

In 2024, Dr. Lucas' most billed Medicare services were office visit, new patient (99204), office visit, established patient (99214) and surgery: heart and blood vessels (36832).

Where did Dr. John Fair Lucas III go to medical school?

Dr. Lucas graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1981.

What drugs does Dr. John Fair Lucas III prescribe most?

In 2024 Medicare Part D data, Dr. Lucas' most prescribed drugs by claims were Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen, Acetaminophen-Codeine and Clopidogrel.

Has Dr. John Fair Lucas III received payments from drug or device companies?

CMS Open Payments shows $24,257 in general payments to Dr. Lucas from 15 companies from 2016 to 2024. The largest total came from LeMaitre Vascular, Inc.

How long has Dr. John Fair Lucas III been practicing?

Dr. Lucas graduated from medical school in 1981, 45 years ago.

Does Dr. John Fair Lucas III do research?

Dmand AI links 6 publications to Dr. Lucas, published from 2021 to 2025. Dr. Lucas has worked on 2 clinical trials.

Who does Dr. John Fair Lucas III publish with?

Dr. Lucas' most frequent co-authors are Ellen D. Dillavou, MD (2 shared papers), Alik Farber, MD (2 shared papers) and Dirk M. Hentschel, MD (2 shared papers).

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