PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1538166822

Venu KakaralaMD

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Internal MedicineSlaughter, LAI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

103

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

357

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$14K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 1,297 Internal Medicine providers in LA — below median (cohort median 534).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

18,445

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$957K

Distinct drugs

196

Brand share

24.8%

Top prescribed drugs

Atorvastatin Calcium878 claims

Apixaban649 claims

Pantoprazole Sodium579 claims

Levothyroxine Sodium540 claims

Potassium Chloride503 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

No data available for this provider in 2024.

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$344

Payment records

By payment type

Food and Beverage$314

Long term medical supply or device loan$30

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Venu Kakarala'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). 65 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
HOSPITAL SERVICE DISTRICT 1 OF EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH	496	9,194
Acadian Ambulance Service, Inc. Ambulance Service Provider · Lafayette, LA	195	1,835
Travis Blanchard Diagnostic Radiology · Zachary, LA	154	2,254
Deana Jones-Braswell Diagnostic Radiology · Zachary, LA	135	1,913
Charles Greeson Diagnostic Radiology · Zachary, LA	131	1,359
Laboratory Corporation Of America Holdings Clinical Laboratory · Birmingham, AL	127	498
Mrugesh Soni Interventional Cardiology · Newport News, VA	122	1,429
OUR LADY OF THE LAKE HOSPITAL INC.	82	403
Amy Tomb Nurse Practitioner · Zachary, LA	79	1,186
Monique Consoer Nurse Practitioner · Hammond, LA	72	1,200
Mark Mouton Internal Medicine · Baker, LA	70	588
Dayton Daberkow Internal Medicine · Houma, LA	66	385

Refers patients to

Outbound — where patients go next

No outbound pairs above the suppression threshold.

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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