Stephen Esper

  • Pittsburgh, PA
  • Anesthesiologist
NPI1811123763PAC ID0345498358
Medicare services, 2024
116
Medicare patients, 2024
168
Part D claims, 2024
13
Publications
53
Clinical trials
3
Practice address
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Practice phone
Call (412) 647-2345
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Primary practice

UPMC Presbyterian

Hospital · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Stephen Esper is an anesthesiologist in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Stephen Esper practices at UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, part of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Stephen Esper's NPI, 1811123763, was assigned on June 5, 2009. Stephen Esper graduated from University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 2007. Stephen Esper holds Pennsylvania license MT191546.

NPI and contact details
Medicare PAC ID
0345498358
NPI enumeration date
June 5, 2009
NPI status
Active
Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes
Practice phone
(412) 647-2345
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Sex
Male
Estimated age
45
Medical school graduation
2007

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

Stephen Esper practices at UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Stephen Esper's primary practice is UPMC Presbyterian, at 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 in Allegheny County. The practice phone is (412) 647-2345.

  • UPMC Presbyterian
    200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 · Allegheny CountyPhone(412) 647-2345

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Stephen Esper is affiliated with 6 sites of care and 1 medical group

Stephen Esper's primary practice is UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, part of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Stephen Esper is also affiliated with Select Specialty Hospital - Pittsburgh / UPMC. The medical group on file is University of Pittsburgh Physicians, Department of Radiology. Dmand AI also links Stephen Esper to 3 more hospitals and 1 group practice or clinic, each named with a free account.

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Dmand AI tracks the EHR system at Stephen Esper's practice

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EHR by site
SiteEHR vendor and product
UPMC PresbyterianAvailable with a free account
+5 more affiliated sitesAvailable with a free account

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Stephen Esper is one of 1,816 anesthesiologists in Pennsylvania

Anesthesiology is Stephen Esper's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 207L00000X. Stephen Esper is licensed in Pennsylvania.

Specialties and state licenses

  • Anesthesiology, PennsylvaniaPrimaryLicense MT191546 · taxonomy 207L00000X

Anesthesiologists near Stephen Esper

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

Stephen Esper billed Medicare for 116 services in 2024

CMS data shows 116 Medicare services from Stephen Esper across 5 procedure codes in 2024, for 168 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $11,054 for them. Every service was in a facility, such as a hospital, rather than an office.

Medicare services, 2024116
Medicare patients168
Paid by Medicare$11,054
Procedure codes5

Stephen Esper's Medicare services by type, 2023 to 2024

  • 2023
  • 2024
Office and hospital visits
2023: 772024: 826%
Anesthesia
2023: 02024: 17
Surgery
2023: 442024: 1761%

Stephen Esper compared with the Pennsylvania median for anesthesiologists, 2024

  • Stephen Esper
  • Pennsylvania median
Medicare services
116vs 115Close to median
Medicare patients
168vs 19514% below
Part D claims
14vs 2442% below

Medians across 1,825 anesthesiologists in Pennsylvania with Dmand AI profiles that report each measure.

Stephen Esper'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

Stephen Esper treated 168 Medicare patients in 2024, average age 69

CMS counts 168 Medicare patients who saw Stephen Esper in 2024. The largest group is 65 to 74, with 94 patients. 75% of them have high cholesterol, and 74% have high blood pressure. 13% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 1.63, where 1.00 is the Medicare average, so they are sicker than most Medicare patients.

Across all payers, Dmand AI patient panel data puts Stephen Esper's median patient age at 70, with 45% women.

Medicare patients, 2024168
Average age69
Average risk score1.63
Also on Medicaid13%

Stephen Esper's Medicare patients by age, 2024

CMS leaves out age groups with fewer than 11 patients.

Stephen Esper's Medicare patients by sex, 2024

  • Women7545%
  • Men9355%

Chronic conditions among Stephen Esper's Medicare patients, 2024

  1. High cholesterol75%
  2. High blood pressure74%
  3. Arthritis57%
  4. Ischemic heart disease43%
  5. Diabetes35%
  6. Mood disorders35%
  7. Anxiety34%
  8. Heart failure33%

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

Stephen Esper's patients across all payers

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

Patient panel by age, all payers

Median age 70

Patient panel by sex, all payers

  • Women45%
  • Men54%

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

Stephen Esper wrote 13 Medicare Part D claims in 2024

In 2024, Stephen Esper wrote 13 Medicare Part D claims. 100% of them were for generic drugs. They cover 1 drug, with $782 in total drug cost. In 2019, CMS named 39 claims across 2 drugs.

Part D claims, 202413
Drugs named by CMS1
Total drug cost$782

Stephen Esper's most prescribed drugs by claims, 2020

CMS names a drug when it has 11 or more claims. Share is of the claims for drugs CMS names.

Part D claims for drugs CMS names, 2019 to 2020

  • 2019
  • 2020
Claims for drugs CMS names
2019: 392020: 1464%

Drugs named by CMS: 1 in 2020, 2 in 2019.

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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

Stephen Esper scored 81 out of 100 in Medicare's MIPS program for 2024

CMS publishes a Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) score of 81 out of 100 for Stephen Esper for performance year 2024, reported as part of a group. Stephen Esper accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment.

Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes

Stephen Esper's MIPS scores, performance year 2024

  • 81of 100Final score
  • 61.9of 100Quality
  • 100of 100Promoting Interoperability
  • 40of 100Improvement Activities
  • 75of 100Cost

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

Sources: Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS); and Clinician Public Reporting: Overall MIPS Performance (CMS), 2024 data, released September 10, 2026

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Stephen Esper has 53 publications on record

Dmand AI links 53 papers to Stephen Esper, published from 2011 to 2024. 2020 was the busiest year, with 11. The most frequent topics are Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, Pain, Postoperative and Analgesics, Opioid. Stephen Esper has published most often in J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. Stephen Esper's most frequent co-authors are Kathirvel Subramaniam, Jennifer M. Holder-Murray and Michael L. Boisen.

Papers53
Years published2011 to 2024

Stephen Esper's papers by year, 2015 to 2024

Topics Stephen Esper writes about most

  • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
  • Pain, Postoperative
  • Analgesics, Opioid
  • Postoperative Complications
  • Monitoring, Intraoperative
  • Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting
  • Anesthesia
  • Anticoagulants

Stephen Esper's most frequent co-authors

Recent publications by Stephen Esper

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

Stephen Esper has worked on 3 clinical trials

Dmand AI links Stephen Esper to 3 clinical trials. Conditions studied include Heart Diseases, Hyperglycemia and Cardiovascular Diseases. Stephen Esper sponsors the most, 2.

Conditions in Stephen Esper's trials

  • Heart Diseases
  • Hyperglycemia
  • Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Glucose Metabolism Disorders
  • Lung Diseases

Investigators on the most trials with Stephen Esper

Recent clinical trials with Stephen Esper

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

Stephen Esper received $109 in industry payments from 2017 to 2024

CMS Open Payments shows 2 general payments to Stephen Esper from 2 drug and device companies from 2017 to 2024. Food and beverage make up the largest share, 83% of the total. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation paid the most, $91.

General payments to Stephen Esper by program year, 2017 to 2024

General payments to Stephen Esper by kind, 2017 to 2024

$109in total
  • Food and beverage$9183%
  • Education$1817%

Companies that paid Stephen Esper the most, 2017 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

Stephen Esper graduated from University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Stephen Esper graduated from University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 2007.

  1. Medical schoolUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Source: Dmand AI Professional Profile Data

Sources for Stephen Esper'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)
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 Stephen Esper's NPI number?

Stephen Esper's NPI number is 1811123763. It was assigned on June 5, 2009, and it is active in the NPI Registry.

What does Stephen Esper specialize in?

Stephen Esper is an anesthesiologist in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The primary specialty in the NPI Registry is Anesthesiology Physician (taxonomy code 207L00000X).

Where does Stephen Esper practice?

Stephen Esper practices at 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Stephen Esper's primary practice is UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, part of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Dmand AI also links Stephen Esper to 3 hospitals and 1 group practice or clinic.

What is Stephen Esper's office phone number?

The practice phone on file for Stephen Esper is (412) 647-2345.

What is Stephen Esper's medical license number?

Stephen Esper holds Pennsylvania license MT191546.

Which hospitals is Stephen Esper affiliated with?

Stephen Esper practices at UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Stephen Esper is also affiliated with Select Specialty Hospital - Pittsburgh / UPMC. Dmand AI links Stephen Esper to 3 more hospitals.

What medical group is Stephen Esper part of?

Stephen Esper is linked to University of Pittsburgh Physicians, Department of Radiology.

Does Stephen Esper accept Medicare?

Yes. CMS data shows Stephen Esper billed Medicare for 116 services in 2024, and Stephen Esper accepts Medicare assignment.

What is Stephen Esper's MIPS score?

Stephen Esper's MIPS final score for performance year 2024 is 81 out of 100, reported as part of a group.

How many Medicare patients does Stephen Esper see?

CMS counts 168 Medicare patients who saw Stephen Esper in 2024, with an average age of 69.

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What services does Stephen Esper bill to Medicare?

In 2024, Stephen Esper's most billed Medicare services were office visit, new patient (99205), hospital inpatient care (99223) and anesthesia (00811).

Where did Stephen Esper go to medical school?

Stephen Esper graduated from University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 2007.

What drugs does Stephen Esper prescribe most?

In 2020 Medicare Part D data, Stephen Esper's most prescribed drugs by claims were Ventolin Hfa.

Has Stephen Esper received payments from drug or device companies?

CMS Open Payments shows $109 in general payments to Stephen Esper from 2 companies from 2017 to 2024. The largest total came from Edwards Lifesciences Corporation.

How long has Stephen Esper been practicing?

Stephen Esper graduated from medical school in 2007, 19 years ago.

Does Stephen Esper do research?

Dmand AI links 53 publications to Stephen Esper, published from 2011 to 2024. Stephen Esper has worked on 3 clinical trials.

Who does Stephen Esper publish with?

Stephen Esper's most frequent co-authors are Kathirvel Subramaniam (20 shared papers), Jennifer M. Holder-Murray (14 shared papers) and Michael L. Boisen (8 shared papers).

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