Dr. Lixia Zhao Ellis, MD, PHD

Individual provider Dermatology Physician · NPI 1285861674

Dr. Lixia Zhao Ellis, MD, PHD practises Dermatology in Bennington, Vermont. Graduated from Harvard Medical School in 2009, 17 years ago. Practices with Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, Inc, a 176-clinician group and accepts Medicare assignment. Licensed in Colorado and Vermont.

Years since qualifying: 17
Trained at: Harvard Medical School
Licensed in: CO, VT
In the registry since: 2009
Specialties on file: 2

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MD — Doctor of Medicine: A physician who completed allopathic medical school.
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Practice location Address checks out

100 Hospital Dr
Bennington, VT 05201-5004 Not confirmed with CMS for 12 years — call before visiting
Phone: (802) 447-5544

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Specialties & licences

Dermatology Physician (primary)	Taxonomy 207N00000X · Licence 042.0012576 (VT)
Dermatology Physician	Taxonomy 207N00000X · Licence TL-3746 (CO)

Record details

NPI number	1285861674
Entity type	Individual (Type 1)
Gender	Female
Credentials	MD , PHD
Sole proprietor	No
NPI enumerated	June 12, 2009
Last updated in NPPES	March 17, 2014

Medicare enrollment

From the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file — this clinician is enrolled in Medicare.

Medicare specialty	DERMATOLOGY
Medical school	HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
Graduated	2009 (17 years in practice)
Group practice	Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, Inc — 176 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment	Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

Removal of skin lesions	1,627 times · 97th percentile
Melanoma (skin cancer) excision	54 times · 87th percentile
Removal or shaving of skin growth	130 times · 87th percentile
Skin biopsy	154 times · 81st percentile

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Medicare patients	2,661
Services billed	7,093 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age	76

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician.

Berkshire Medical Center Hospital · Pittsfield, MA
Grace Cottage Hospital Hospital · Townshend, VT · listed as Carlos G. Otis Health Care Center Inc
North Adams Regional Hospital Corporation Hospital · North Adams, MA
Rutland Regional Medical Center Hospital · Rutland, VT · listed as Rutland Hospital, Inc
Southwestern Vermont Medical Center Hospital · Bennington, VT

Colleagues at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, Inc

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 176 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

Lia B Braico, FNP-BC Family Nurse Practitioner · Manchester Center, VT
Terence Joseph Clarke, MD Surgery Physician · Albany, NY
Emily D'Amario, PA Physician Assistant · Bennington, VT
Dillard Lovell Dehart, DO General Practice Physician · Woodsville, NH
Sean Michael Dwyer, MD Cardiovascular Disease Physician · Chevy Chase, MD
Grace Hallenbeck, DNP-FNP Family Nurse Practitioner · Pownal, VT
Allen C Hutcheson, MD Family Medicine Physician · Bronx, NY
Dr. Selina Ann Long, MD Anesthesiology Physician · Boston, MA
Stefanie Ann McGowan, CRNP Acute Care Nurse Practitioner · Bennington, VT
Scott W Rogge, MD Cardiovascular Disease Physician · Bennington, VT
Angela Theiss, MD Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician · Bennington, VT
Dr. Matthew R Vernon, MD Radiation Oncology Physician · Bennington, VT