What is Ulka Desai's specialty?

Ulka Desai (NPI 1841481025) is a Medicare-billing provider whose primary specialty is Nephrology in Houston, TX.

Where does Ulka Desai practice?

Ulka Desai practices in Houston, TX, based on the location reported in the CMS Medicare provider datasets for NPI 1841481025.

How much does Medicare pay Ulka Desai?

Ulka Desai (NPI 1841481025) received approximately $284K in total Medicare Part B payments, serving 559 beneficiaries, per the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners dataset.

PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1841481025

Ulka DesaiM.D.

NephrologyHouston, TXI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

1,173

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

3,062

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$266K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 883 Nephrology providers in TX — top quintile (cohort median 1,432).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

1,324

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$384K

Distinct drugs

Brand share

22.1%

Top prescribed drugs

Furosemide119 claims

Allopurinol104 claims

Losartan Potassium90 claims

Dapagliflozin Propanediol86 claims

Nifedipine63 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

Final MIPS score

92.5

Quality

85.3

Cost

71.3

Improvement activities

40.0

Promoting interop.

98.0

Payment adjustment

0.74%

Group

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2025

Total received

$2K

Payment records

By payment type

Food and Beverage$2K

Education$2

Top paying entities

Food and Beverage$2K

Education$2

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Ulka Desai'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). 115 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
Quest Diagnostics Clinical Laboratories Inc Clinical Laboratory · Houston, TX	111	488
Faisal Arain Cardiology · Houston, TX	55	226
Sanjay Kunapuli Interventional Cardiology · Houston, TX	50	761
Kapil Shroff Diagnostic Radiology · Houston, TX	50	202
Quynh Lam Nephrology · Houston, TX	48	293
Fayaz Faiz Neurology · Houston, TX	48	358
Tulsidas Kuruvanka Cardiology · Houston, TX	47	338
NPI 1255335535	46	172
John Haddad Diagnostic Radiology · Houston, TX	44	212
David Light Diagnostic Radiology · Houston, TX	41	237
NEW MEDICAL HORIZONS II, LTD.	41	158
Jamil Mohsin Cardiology · Tomball, TX	39	272

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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