PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1699840322

Sivanthan BalachandranMD

NephrologyConway, SCI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

1,249

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

2,115

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$297K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 138 Nephrology providers in SC — above median (cohort median 2,014).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

4,459

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$1.7M

Distinct drugs

Brand share

30.6%

Top prescribed drugs

Sevelamer Carbonate381 claims

Carvedilol168 claims

Amlodipine Besylate/Benazepril166 claims

Losartan Potassium160 claims

Calcium Acetate158 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

Final MIPS score

90.9

Quality

81.0

Cost

78.3

Improvement activities

40.0

Promoting interop.

0.0

Payment adjustment

0.67%

Group

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$616

Payment records

By payment type

Food and Beverage$596

Education$20

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Sivanthan Balachandran'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). 81 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
CONWAY HOSPITAL, INC.	306	1,930
GRAND STRAND REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER LLC	203	760
Spectra East, Inc. Clinical Laboratory · Rockleigh, NJ	201	1,486
Mary Rose Tantoco Nephrology · Uncasville, CT	186	636
Russell Derrick Diagnostic Radiology · Conway, SC	120	439
Joshua Tew Diagnostic Radiology · Conway, SC	110	411
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, INC.	84	1,142
Richard Wunder Diagnostic Radiology · Conway, SC	84	384
NPI 1063498558	74	173
John Daly Diagnostic Radiology · Conway, SC	73	183
Michael Brown Diagnostic Radiology · Conway, SC	71	170
BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, INC.	68	1,092

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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ProviderScore

OIG/SAM exclusion screening, sanctions history