What is Venu Kakarala's specialty?

Venu Kakarala (NPI 1538166822) is a Medicare-billing provider whose primary specialty is Internal Medicine in Slaughter, LA.

Where does Venu Kakarala practice?

Venu Kakarala practices in Slaughter, LA, based on the location reported in the CMS Medicare provider datasets for NPI 1538166822.

How much does Medicare pay Venu Kakarala?

Venu Kakarala (NPI 1538166822) received approximately $16K in total Medicare Part B payments, serving 109 beneficiaries, per the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners dataset.

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 · 2025

Total received

$304

Payment records

By payment type

Food and Beverage$304

Top paying entities

Food and Beverage$304

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.

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