PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1871540757

Veeranna MerlaMD

CardiologyCarmel, NYI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

2,703

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

3,361

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$193K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 1,949 Cardiology providers in NY — above median (cohort median 2,081).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

2,118

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$468K

Distinct drugs

Brand share

28.3%

Top prescribed drugs

Metoprolol Succinate267 claims

Apixaban200 claims

Amlodipine Besylate166 claims

Rosuvastatin Calcium159 claims

Atorvastatin Calcium136 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

No data available for this provider in 2024.

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$431

Payment records

By payment type

Food and Beverage$431

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Veeranna Merla'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). 21 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
Maddipoti Choudry Cardiology · Brewster, NY	76	255
Bramdeo Singh Hospitalist · Poughkeepsie, NY	42	100
Jaimin Shah Interventional Radiology · Morristown, NJ	42	77
Raymond Yun Emergency Medicine · Tacoma, WA	31	48
Subbarao Choudry Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Carmel, NY	29	51
Tsohuang Wu Internal Medicine · Carmel, NY	29	73
Jeffrey Beechert Critical Care (Intensivists) · Cortlandt Manor, NY	26	73
Michael Capicotto Nephrology · Brewster, NY	23	83
John Gruendel Cardiology · Carmel, NY	23	36
Philip Amatulle Diagnostic Radiology · Fort Myers, FL	22	37
Pragya Gupta Internal Medicine · Plano, TX	21	62
Thomas Rush Infectious Disease · Briarcliff Manor, NY	19	30

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

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