HOSPITAL · CCN 030065
BANNER DESERT MEDICAL CENTER
Physician affiliations & referral network
Affiliated physicians
237
External referring physicians
1,749
Top affiliated specialty
Internal Medicine
Shared beneficiaries (top referrers)
30,754
SPECIALTY MIX
Specialties among affiliated physicians
27
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AFFILIATED PHYSICIANS
Physicians affiliated with BANNER DESERT MEDICAL CENTER (237 total)
From CMS Physician-Facility Affiliations. Showing the first 50 of 237.
REFERRAL NETWORK
Who refers patients here
External physicians who share patients into this hospital's affiliated providers, ranked by shared Medicare beneficiaries.
| Referring physician | Specialty | Shared beneficiaries |
|---|---|---|
| BANNER BAYWOOD MEDICAL CENTER | — | 5,325 |
| CHARNEY, ALBERT | — | 4,102 |
| NPI 1316992407 | — | 3,834 |
| R M Arizona Holdings Inc | Ambulance Service Provider | 1,870 |
| Robert Hanna | Interventional Radiology | 1,141 |
| BANNER HEART HOSPITAL | — | 1,099 |
| ST. MARY'S MEDICAL CENTER INC | — | 1,074 |
| James Lyons | Diagnostic Radiology | 969 |
| Nicholas Weisman | Diagnostic Radiology | 877 |
| BANNER HEALTH | — | 849 |
| BANNER THUNDERBIRD MEDICAL CENTER | — | 807 |
| Fred Dawson | Diagnostic Radiology | 792 |
| CABELL HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL INC | — | 787 |
| MOUNTAIN VISTA MEDICAL CENTER LP | — | 765 |
| Kai-Chun Sung | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology | 646 |
| Farukh Mian | Diagnostic Radiology | 646 |
| Bradley Mullen | Diagnostic Radiology | 623 |
| Andrew Pohl | Diagnostic Radiology | 619 |
| Gulabchand Shah | Diagnostic Radiology | 596 |
| Mark Hoffman | Diagnostic Radiology | 587 |
| Arman Talle | Cardiology | 563 |
| Rishi Gosalia | Diagnostic Radiology | 563 |
| Samuel Braff | Diagnostic Radiology | 558 |
| Hitesh Movalia | Diagnostic Radiology | 544 |
| Parthiban Ramachandran | Diagnostic Radiology | 518 |
Source: CMS Physician Shared Patient Patterns (30-day window, Medicare FFS). A directional edge is a proxy for referral, not a documented referral; pairs below 11 shared beneficiaries are suppressed.
CASE MIX
Top procedures by volume
Highest-volume MS-DRGs from CMS inpatient claims (latest reporting year per code).
| MS-DRG | Discharges |
|---|---|
| 871SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITH MCC | 435 |
| 291HEART FAILURE AND SHOCK WITH MCC | 127 |
| 853INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES WITH O.R. PROCEDURES WITH MCC | 104 |
| 177RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 83 |
| 872SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITHOUT MCC | 83 |
| 193SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH MCC | 81 |
CROSS-REFERENCE