Shikha Mehta

Shikha Mehta practices at University of Alabama Birmingham Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.

Shikha Mehta's NPI, 1740493386, was assigned on May 8, 2007. Shikha Mehta holds Alabama license 29288.

Shikha Mehta's primary practice is University of Alabama Birmingham Hospital, at 619 19th S St, Birmingham, AL 35211 in Jefferson County. The practice phone is (205) 731-9770.

Shikha Mehta's primary practice is University of Alabama Birmingham Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. Shikha Mehta is also affiliated with UAB Hospital. The medical group on file is UAB Medicine. Dmand AI also links Shikha Mehta to 4 more hospitals, each named with a free account.

Dmand AI tracks the electronic health record (EHR) system at each site where Shikha Mehta practices, 5 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.

Nephrology is Shikha Mehta's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 207RN0300X. Shikha Mehta is licensed in Alabama.

CMS data shows 434 Medicare services from Shikha Mehta across 7 procedure codes in 2024, for 151 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $29,151 for them. Every service was in a facility, such as a hospital, rather than an office.

CMS counts 151 Medicare patients who saw Shikha Mehta in 2024. The largest group is under 65, with 97 patients. 75% of them have chronic kidney disease, and 75% have high blood pressure. 36% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 5.47, where 1.00 is the Medicare average, so they are sicker than most Medicare patients.

Across all payers, Dmand AI patient panel data puts Shikha Mehta's median patient age at 59, with 47% women.

In 2024, Shikha Mehta wrote 1,103 Medicare Part D claims for 302 patients. 94% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 885 of them, across 22 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $33,472 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 1,269 claims across 29 drugs.

Shikha Mehta accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment.

Dmand AI links 36 papers to Shikha Mehta, published from 2014 to 2025. 2018 was the busiest year, with 4. The most frequent topics are Kidney Transplantation, HIV Infections and Kidney Failure, Chronic. Shikha Mehta has published most often in Am J Transplant. Shikha Mehta's most frequent co-authors are Dorry Segev, MD, Christine Marie Durand and Roslyn Bernstein Mannon, MD.

Dmand AI links Shikha Mehta to 2 clinical trials. 1 is still active or recruiting. Conditions studied include Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and Slow Virus Diseases.

CMS Open Payments shows 5 general payments to Shikha Mehta from 3 drug and device companies from 2017 to 2022. Food and beverage make up the largest share, 97% of the total. Sanofi and Genzyme US Companies paid the most, $242.