Provider records sourced from NPPES (CMS National Plan & Provider Enumeration System). Data current as of August 10, 2026.
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Dr. Willis Hughes Lyford, MD

Individual provider Dermatology Physician · NPI 1760877633

Dr. Willis Hughes Lyford, MD practises Dermatology in San Diego, California. Graduated from Uniformed Services Uhs Fe Hebert School of Med in 2015, 11 years ago. Practices with J Robert West MD Inc, a 138-clinician group and accepts Medicare assignment. Licensed in California.

Years since qualifying
11
Trained at
Uniformed Services Uhs Fe Hebert School of Med
Licensed in
CA
In the registry since
2015
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 Partly verified

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Naval Medical Center San Diego 34800 Bob Wilson Dr
San Diego, CA 92134-0001
Phone: (619) 532-9660
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Specialties & licences

Dermatology Physician (primary) Taxonomy 207N00000X · Licence C183093 (CA)
Dermatology Physician Taxonomy 207N00000X · Licence 1760877633 (CA)

Record details

NPI number1760877633
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderMale
Credentials MD
Sole proprietorYes
NPI enumeratedMarch 30, 2015
Last updated in NPPESMarch 9, 2023
Certification dateMarch 9, 2023

Medicare enrollment

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

Medicare specialtyDERMATOLOGY
Medical schoolUNIFORMED SERVICES UHS FE HEBERT SCHOOL OF MED
Graduated 2015 (11 years in practice)
Group practice J Robert West Md Inc — 138 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 162 times · 78th percentile
Skin biopsy 84 times · 74th percentile
Removal or shaving of skin growth 11 times · 65th percentile
Melanoma (skin cancer) excision 1–10 times
Removal of skin cancer 1–10 times

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 patients52
Services billed 453 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age72

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.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Food and Beverage $596 17 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee

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Colleagues at J Robert West MD Inc

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 138 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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