Dr. James John Murtagh Jr., MD

Dr. Murtagh practices at CHRISTUS St. Michael Hospital in Texarkana, Texas, part of CHRISTUS Health.

Dr. Murtagh's NPI, 1760655526, was assigned on April 11, 2008. Dr. Murtagh holds Indiana license 01086277A.

Dr. Murtagh's primary practice is CHRISTUS St. Michael Hospital, at 2600 St Michael Dr, Texarkana, TX 75503 in Bowie County. The practice phone is (903) 614-1000.

Dr. Murtagh's primary practice is CHRISTUS St. Michael Hospital in Texarkana, Texas, part of CHRISTUS Health. Dr. Murtagh is also affiliated with Mercy Health - St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital. The medical group on file is CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic. Dmand AI also links Dr. Murtagh to 7 more hospitals, 46 medical groups, 1 clinical lab and 1 group practice or clinic, each named with a free account.

Dmand AI tracks the electronic health record (EHR) system at each site where Dr. Murtagh practices, 11 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.

Emergency medicine is Dr. Murtagh's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 207P00000X. Dmand AI has Dr. Murtagh's licenses on file in 9 states: Indiana, California, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Ohio and Texas.

CMS data shows 275 Medicare services from Dr. Murtagh across 4 procedure codes in 2024, for 242 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $24,378 for them. Every service was in a facility, such as a hospital, rather than an office.

CMS counts 242 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Murtagh in 2024. The largest group is 65 to 74, with 87 patients. 75% of them have high blood pressure, and 75% have high cholesterol. 31% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 2.00, 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. Murtagh's median patient age at 43, with 58% women.

In 2024, Dr. Murtagh wrote 228 Medicare Part D claims for 149 patients. 88% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 75 of them, across 5 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $593 in total drug cost. In 2022, CMS named 13 claims across 1 drug.

Dr. Murtagh accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment.

CMS Open Payments shows 1 general payment to Dr. Murtagh from 1 drug or device company in 2019. Food and beverage make up the largest share, 100% of the total. Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. paid the most, $127.