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 · 2024

Total received

$599

Payment records

By payment type

Food and Beverage$599

Top paying entities

Food and Beverage$599

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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ProviderScore

OIG/SAM exclusion screening, sanctions history