PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1578725560

Nicole WheelerMD

PRACTICESHAILAJA PAREPALLY MD PCSee all providers at this practice →

Infectious DiseasePittsburgh, PAI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

670

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

8,964

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$174K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 346 Infectious Disease providers in PA — top quintile (cohort median 364).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

576

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$315K

Distinct drugs

Brand share

38.0%

Top prescribed drugs

Ceftriaxone Sodium82 claims

Cephalexin42 claims

Cefazolin Sodium37 claims

Cefadroxil35 claims

Amoxicillin35 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

No data available for this provider in 2024.

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$175

Payment records

By payment type

Food and Beverage$175

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Nicole Wheeler'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). 42 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
UPMC PASSAVANT	142	594
ROMANO, JOSEPH	62	313
Raucheline Akindele Diagnostic Radiology · Pittsburgh, PA	56	265
Ubaid Akhtar Diagnostic Radiology · Pittsburgh, PA	47	215
Balasubramanya Rangaswamy Diagnostic Radiology · Cleveland, OH	41	182
DUNN, DEBRA	34	165
Sivasubramaniam Kedarnath Cardiology · Franklin, PA	25	114
Lance Williams Diagnostic Radiology · Lubbock, TX	24	72
Santosh Pandit Cardiology · Pittsburgh, PA	23	164
Micah Jacobs Infectious Disease · Pittsburgh, PA	23	92
Ankur Puri Pulmonary Disease · Pittsburgh, PA	22	209
Wallace Gauntner Internal Medicine · Pittsburgh, PA	21	400

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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