HOSPITAL · CCN 670031
ST. LUKES PATIENTS MEDICAL CENTER
Physician affiliations & referral network
Affiliated physicians
55
External referring physicians
619
Top affiliated specialty
Internal Medicine
Shared beneficiaries (top referrers)
17,388
SPECIALTY MIX
Specialties among affiliated physicians
10
8
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
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2
AFFILIATED PHYSICIANS
Physicians affiliated with ST. LUKES PATIENTS MEDICAL CENTER (55 total)
From CMS Physician-Facility Affiliations. Showing the first 50 of 55.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Quest Diagnostics Clinical Laboratories Inc | Clinical Laboratory | 2,771 |
| PMC HOSPITAL, LLC | — | 1,832 |
| CHCA BAYSHORE LP | — | 1,792 |
| CHI ST. LUKE'S HEALTH BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE MEDICAL CENTER | — | 1,308 |
| Tariq Hashmy | Diagnostic Radiology | 695 |
| NPI 1013964519 | — | 679 |
| EAST TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER | — | 543 |
| Mayank Patel | Pulmonary Disease | 536 |
| Clinical Pathology Laboratories, Inc. | Clinical Laboratory | 526 |
| Gerhard Wittich | Diagnostic Radiology | 499 |
| BESTCARE LABORATORY SERVICES, LLC | — | 487 |
| Mohammad Siddiqui | Pulmonary Disease | 479 |
| City Of Houston | Ambulance Service Provider | 470 |
| John Nisbet | Diagnostic Radiology | 445 |
| Karan Bhalla | Cardiology | 438 |
| Timothy Seipel | Diagnostic Radiology | 422 |
| Vijay Koka | Nephrology | 402 |
| Carlos Farinas | Diagnostic Radiology | 398 |
| Yochai Birnbaum | Cardiology | 395 |
| HARRIS COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT | — | 394 |
| Richard Strax | Diagnostic Radiology | 391 |
| John Hancock | Diagnostic Radiology | 386 |
| Visveshwar Baskaran | Diagnostic Radiology | 374 |
| American Medical Response Of Texas Inc | Ambulance Service Provider | 363 |
| Subhadra Bandhakavi | Internal Medicine | 363 |
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 | 35 |
| 291HEART FAILURE AND SHOCK WITH MCC | 20 |
| 690KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 19 |
| 872SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITHOUT MCC | 17 |
| 603CELLULITIS WITHOUT MCC | 16 |
| 392ESOPHAGITIS, GASTROENTERITIS AND MISCELLANEOUS DIGESTIVE DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC | 15 |
| 177RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 12 |
CROSS-REFERENCE