What is Richard Cheng's specialty?

Richard Cheng (NPI 1548423502) is a Medicare-billing provider whose primary specialty is Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology in Seattle, WA.

Where does Richard Cheng practice?

Richard Cheng practices in Seattle, WA, based on the location reported in the CMS Medicare provider datasets for NPI 1548423502.

How much does Medicare pay Richard Cheng?

Richard Cheng (NPI 1548423502) received approximately $61K in total Medicare Part B payments, serving 546 beneficiaries, per the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners dataset.

PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1548423502

Richard ChengM.D.

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Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant CardiologySeattle, WAI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

877

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

1,114

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$58K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 21 Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology providers in WA — above median (cohort median 911).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

2,941

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$12.5M

Distinct drugs

Brand share

35.3%

Top prescribed drugs

Tafamidis401 claims

Apixaban149 claims

Tacrolimus145 claims

Spironolactone139 claims

Metoprolol Succinate138 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

Final MIPS score

93.8

Quality

74.6

Cost

0.0

Improvement activities

40.0

Promoting interop.

100.0

Payment adjustment

0.79%

APM Entity

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$147

Payment records

By payment type

Food and Beverage$147

Top paying entities

Food and Beverage$147

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Richard Cheng'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). 85 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON	612	2,766
Joseph Godwin Diagnostic Radiology · Seattle, WA	226	1,294
David Linker Cardiology · Seattle, WA	114	343
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER	93	659
Robert Zierler Vascular Surgery · Seattle, WA	91	309
Kristen Patton Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Seattle, WA	77	278
Eric Krieger Adult Congenital Heart Disease · Seattle, WA	65	206
KICSKA, GREGORY	63	268
B Stewart Cardiology · Seattle, WA	57	199
Daniel Fishbein Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Seattle, WA	56	319
Neeraj Lalwani Diagnostic Radiology · Tacoma, WA	53	184
Rosario Freeman Cardiology · Seattle, WA	50	145

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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