Dr. Timothy Ray Deer, MD

Dr. Deer practices at Thomas Hospitals Skilled Nursing Unit in Charleston, West Virginia.

Dr. Deer's NPI, 1861424210, was assigned on July 7, 2006. Dr. Deer graduated from West Virginia University School of Medicine in 1990. Dr. Deer holds West Virginia license 17647.

Dr. Deer's primary practice is Thomas Hospitals Skilled Nursing Unit, at 333 Laidley Street, Charleston, WV 25322 in Kanawha County. The practice phone is (304) 347-6500.

Dr. Deer's primary practice is Thomas Hospitals Skilled Nursing Unit in Charleston, West Virginia. Dr. Deer is also affiliated with Charleston Area Medical Center General Hospital. The medical group on file is THS Physician Partners, Inc. Dmand AI also links Dr. Deer to 4 more hospitals, 2 group practices and clinics and 2 medical groups, each named with a free account.

Dmand AI tracks the electronic health record (EHR) system at each site where Dr. Deer practices, 8 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.

Interventional pain medicine is Dr. Deer's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 208VP0014X. Dmand AI has Dr. Deer's licenses on file in 2 states: West Virginia and Virginia.

CMS data shows 1,470 Medicare services from Dr. Deer across 20 procedure codes in 2024, for 485 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $103,721 for them.

CMS counts 485 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Deer in 2024. The largest group is 65 to 74, with 214 patients. 75% of them have arthritis, and 75% have high blood pressure. 8% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 1.33, where 1.00 is the Medicare average.

Across all payers, Dmand AI patient panel data puts Dr. Deer's median patient age at 69, with 60% women.

In 2024, Dr. Deer wrote 696 Medicare Part D claims for 215 patients. 98% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 638 of them, across 9 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $6,091 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 692 claims across 11 drugs.

CMS publishes a Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) score of 95 out of 100 for Dr. Deer for performance year 2024, reported through an alternative payment model (APM). Dr. Deer accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment. CMS counts 33 procedures of spinal fusion by Dr. Deer, more than 46% of the clinicians it reports for that procedure.

Dmand AI links 263 papers to Dr. Deer, published from 2011 to 2025. 2021 was the busiest year, with 27. The most frequent topics are Chronic Pain, Spinal Cord Stimulation and Pain Management. Dr. Deer has published most often in Neuromodulation. Dr. Deer's most frequent co-authors are Jason Edward Pope, MD, Dawood Sayed, MD and Steven M. Falowski, MD.

Dmand AI links Dr. Deer to 11 clinical trials. 5 are still active or recruiting. Conditions studied include Low Back Pain, Back Pain and Chronic Pain. Abbott Medical Devices sponsors the most, 5. Open Payments lists research payments to Dr. Deer that name 4 trials.

CMS Open Payments shows 3,396 general payments to Dr. Deer from 39 drug and device companies from 2016 to 2025. Consulting fees make up the largest share, 35% of the total. Abbott Laboratories paid the most, $1,685,116. It also lists 29 research payments totaling $24,261 from 2018 to 2023, naming 4 clinical trials.

Dr. Deer graduated from West Virginia University School of Medicine in 1990.