PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1942504683

Kariappa AppachuMD

NephrologyTempe, AZI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

1,339

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

2,318

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$152K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 225 Nephrology providers in AZ — above median (cohort median 2,066).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

2,049

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$195K

Distinct drugs

Brand share

12.1%

Top prescribed drugs

Furosemide184 claims

Calcitriol166 claims

Losartan Potassium145 claims

Famotidine141 claims

Amlodipine Besylate129 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

No data available for this provider in 2024.

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

Total received

$612

Payment records

By payment type

Food and Beverage$554

Education$58

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Kariappa Appachu'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). 86 inbound referrers · 0 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
Melissa Gurley Interventional Radiology · Phoenix, AZ	78	322
Denise Kulesha Diagnostic Radiology · El Segundo, CA	70	247
R M Arizona Holdings Inc Ambulance Service Provider · Mesa, AZ	66	165
Andrew Cottrell Diagnostic Radiology · Dayton, OH	65	224
NPI 1316992407	63	238
BANNER HEALTH	61	389
Stamatis Kantartzis Diagnostic Radiology · Chandler, AZ	51	157
Marc Tobler Diagnostic Radiology · Temple, TX	49	270
NPI 1255335535	48	222
SPECTRA LABORATORIES INC	45	197
Stephanie Horton Diagnostic Radiology · Cincinnati, OH	44	175
Robert Baldwin Interventional Radiology · Chandler, AZ	43	303

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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