What is Lale Kostakoglu Shields's specialty?

Lale Kostakoglu Shields (NPI 1154398642) is a Medicare-billing provider whose primary specialty is Nuclear Medicine in Charlottesville, VA.

Where does Lale Kostakoglu Shields practice?

Lale Kostakoglu Shields practices in Charlottesville, VA, based on the location reported in the CMS Medicare provider datasets for NPI 1154398642.

How much does Medicare pay Lale Kostakoglu Shields?

Lale Kostakoglu Shields (NPI 1154398642) received approximately $1.1M in total Medicare Part B payments, serving 1,119 beneficiaries, per the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners dataset.

PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1154398642

Lale Kostakoglu ShieldsMD

Nuclear MedicineCharlottesville, VAI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

1,512

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

4,915

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$1.0M

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 16 Nuclear Medicine providers in VA — above median (cohort median 1,918).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

No data available for this provider in 2024.

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

No data available for this provider in 2024.

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2025

No data available for this provider in 2025.

FACILITY AFFILIATIONS

Hospital & Facility Affiliations (1)

CCN 330214

Hospital

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Lale Kostakoglu Shields's patients come from & go

Directional shared-patient flow from Medicare claims — who sends patients to this provider (inbound) and where this provider's patients go next (outbound). 3 inbound referrers · 13 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL	37	65
Bioreference Health, Llc Clinical Laboratory · Elmwood Park, NJ	13	22
Eric Genden Otolaryngology · New York, NY	11	24

Refers patients to

Outbound — where patients go next

Physician	Patients	Visits
MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL	179	465
MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL	23	51
NPI 1487654703	18	20
Quest Diagnostics Incorporated Clinical Laboratory · Clifton, NJ	16	27
Corey Eber Diagnostic Radiology · New York, NY	15	27
Sundar Jagannath Internal Medicine · New York, NY	15	48
Philip Friedlander Medical Oncology · New York, NY	13	53
Shabnam Jaffer Pathology · New York, NY	13	20
David Mendelson Diagnostic Radiology · New York, NY	13	23
Krzysztof Misiukiewicz Medical Oncology · New York, NY	12	41
VISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK HOME CARE II	12	18
Jorge Gomez Medical Oncology · New York, NY	11	24

Source: CMS Physician Shared Patient Patterns (30-day window, Medicare FFS). Direction = a beneficiary seen by the first provider, then the second, within 30 days; a proxy for referral, not a documented referral. Pairs with fewer than 11 shared beneficiaries are suppressed.

CROSS-REFERENCE

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