What is Octavia Balan's specialty?

Octavia Balan (NPI 1649236134) is a Medicare-billing provider whose primary specialty is Internal Medicine in Buffalo, NY.

Where does Octavia Balan practice?

Octavia Balan practices in Buffalo, NY, based on the location reported in the CMS Medicare provider datasets for NPI 1649236134.

How much does Medicare pay Octavia Balan?

Octavia Balan (NPI 1649236134) received approximately $76K in total Medicare Part B payments, serving 206 beneficiaries, per the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners dataset.

PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1649236134

Octavia BalanMD

PRACTICEBUFFALO MEDICAL GROUP, PCSee all providers at this practice →

Internal MedicineBuffalo, NYI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

344

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

747

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$74K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 7,864 Internal Medicine providers in NY — above median (cohort median 552).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

167

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$1K

Distinct drugs

Brand share

13.8%

Top prescribed drugs

Metoprolol Tartrate37 claims

Sertraline Hcl25 claims

Memantine Hcl23 claims

Galantamine Hbr23 claims

Prednisone18 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

Final MIPS score

91.3

Quality

87.9

Cost

83.1

Improvement activities

40.0

Promoting interop.

100.0

Payment adjustment

0.69%

Group

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

No data available for this provider in 2024.

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Octavia Balan'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). 47 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
Lasalle Ambulance Inc Ambulance Service Provider · Buffalo, NY	63	308
KALEIDA HEALTH	56	123
Sanjay Ogra Internal Medicine · Buffalo, NY	55	175
NPI 1063488542	53	209
HAQ, SYED	49	154
Anthony Mangano Diagnostic Radiology · New Hartford, NY	37	139
Gail Stokoe Diagnostic Radiology · Williamsville, NY	37	100
Scott Clark Nurse Practitioner · Buffalo, NY	37	346
Krista Clontz Nurse Practitioner · Buffalo, NY	34	137
Kenneth Pearsen Diagnostic Radiology · Williamsville, NY	26	87
James Rinaldi Diagnostic Radiology · Williamsville, NY	25	131
Khalid Qazi Internal Medicine · Depew, NY	24	45

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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