PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1629138474

Sara PinkelMD

Internal MedicineSan Jose, CAI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$3K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 10,499 Internal Medicine providers in CA — bottom quintile (cohort median 531).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

6,923

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$1.1M

Distinct drugs

109

Brand share

27.5%

Top prescribed drugs

Atorvastatin Calcium481 claims

Amlodipine Besylate313 claims

Metformin Hcl257 claims

Fluticasone Propionate239 claims

Albuterol Sulfate213 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

Final MIPS score

61.0

Quality

59.4

Cost

71.5

Improvement activities

40.0

Promoting interop.

0.0

Payment adjustment

-1.68%

Group

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

No data available for this provider in 2024.

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Sara Pinkel'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). 6 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA	163	827
Young Kang Diagnostic Radiology · San Jose, CA	17	25
FRAKER, KEITH	14	30
Jeffrey Tseng Nuclear Medicine · Stanford, CA	13	18
SAN JOSE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, L.P.	11	31
Margaret Lee Diagnostic Radiology · San Jose, CA	11	13

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

Related data on other Healthparse brands

ProviderScore

OIG/SAM exclusion screening, sanctions history