What is Ramasamy Bakthavatsalam's specialty?

Ramasamy Bakthavatsalam (NPI 1609951433) is a Medicare-billing provider whose primary specialty is General Surgery in Seattle, WA.

Where does Ramasamy Bakthavatsalam practice?

Ramasamy Bakthavatsalam practices in Seattle, WA, based on the location reported in the CMS Medicare provider datasets for NPI 1609951433.

How much does Medicare pay Ramasamy Bakthavatsalam?

Ramasamy Bakthavatsalam (NPI 1609951433) received approximately $110K in total Medicare Part B payments, serving 85 beneficiaries, per the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners dataset.

PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1609951433

Ramasamy Bakthavatsalam

General SurgerySeattle, WAI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

116

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$71K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 456 General Surgery providers in WA — above median (cohort median 178).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$24

Distinct drugs

Brand share

0.0%

Top prescribed drugs

Levofloxacin11 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 · 2025

Total received

$2K

Payment records

By payment type

Education$2K

Food and Beverage$298

Top paying entities

Education$2K

Food and Beverage$298

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Ramasamy Bakthavatsalam'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). 16 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON	82	640
Nicolae Leca Nephrology · Seattle, WA	42	384
Joseph Godwin Diagnostic Radiology · Seattle, WA	33	110
Christopher Blosser Nephrology · Seattle, WA	29	234
Christopher Johnson Nephrology · Peoria, IL	27	275
Karen Leung-Waite Physician Assistant · Seattle, WA	26	103
Tamar Solomon Physician Assistant · Seattle, WA	23	119
Mariam Moshiri Diagnostic Radiology · Nashville, TN	23	63
Stephen Rayhill General Surgery · Seattle, WA	21	76
Lena Sibulesky General Surgery · Seattle, WA	20	84
JAVED, IMRAN	18	48
Robert Rakita Infectious Disease · Seattle, WA	18	73

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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