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Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer, DO
NPI1336460278PAC ID7214206390
- Medicare services, 2024
- 533
- Medicare patients, 2024
- 344
- Part D claims, 2024
- 1,705
- Publications
- 1
- Hospital affiliations
- 6
- Practice address
- 350 West Thomas Road, Phoenix, AZ 85013
- Practice phone
- Call (602) 406-8225
- Professional email
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- Personal email
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- Mobile number
- Get mobile number
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Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer is a neurologist in Phoenix, Arizona
Dr. Shafer practices at Dignity Health St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, part of CommonSpirit Health.
Dr. Shafer's NPI, 1336460278, was assigned on June 15, 2010. Dr. Shafer graduated from Touro Un Col of Osteopathic Medicine, Henderson in 2010. Dr. Shafer holds Arizona license 006647.
NPI and contact details
- NPI
- 1336460278NPI Registry (opens in a new tab)
- Medicare PAC ID
- 7214206390
- NPI enumeration date
- June 15, 2010
- NPI status
- Active
- Accepts Medicare assignment
- Yes
- Offers telehealth
- Yes
- Practice phone
- (602) 406-8225
- Professional email
- Get email
- Personal email
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- Mobile number
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- Sex
- Female
- Estimated age
- 42
- Medical school graduation
- 2010
Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; Dmand AI Affiliation Data; and Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS)
Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer practices at Dignity Health St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona
Dr. Shafer's primary practice is Dignity Health St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, at 350 West Thomas Road, Phoenix, AZ 85013 in Maricopa County. The practice phone is (602) 406-8225.
- Dignity Health St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center350 West Thomas Road, Phoenix, AZ 85013 · Maricopa CountyPhone(602) 406-8225
Source: Dmand AI Affiliation Data
Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer is affiliated with 9 sites of care and 2 medical groups
Dr. Shafer's primary practice is Dignity Health St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, part of CommonSpirit Health. Dr. Shafer is also affiliated with Select Specialty Hospital - Phoenix. The medical group on file is St. Joseph's Faculty Physicians. Dmand AI also links Dr. Shafer to 4 more hospitals, 2 home health agencies, 1 group practice or clinic and 1 medical group, each named with a free account.
Select Specialty Hospital - PhoenixSt. Joseph's Faculty Physicians4 hospitalsNames with a free account2 home health agenciesNames with a free account1 group practice or clinicName with a free account1 medical groupName with a free account
See all 11 affiliations for Dr. ShaferSources: Dmand AI Affiliation Data; and Dmand AI Org Hierarchy Data
Dmand AI tracks the EHR system at Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer's practice
Dmand AI tracks the electronic health record (EHR) system at each site where Dr. Shafer practices, 9 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.
| Site | EHR vendor and product |
|---|---|
| Dignity Health St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center | Available with a free account |
| +8 more sites and 1 medical group | Available with a free account |
Source: Dmand AI Technology Install Data
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Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer is one of 395 neurologists in Arizona
Neurology is Dr. Shafer's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 2084N0400X. Dmand AI has Dr. Shafer's licenses on file in 3 states: Arizona, Illinois and Nevada.
Specialties and state licenses
- Neurology, ArizonaPrimary
- Illinois license
- Specialist, Nevada
Neurologists near Dr. Shafer
Counts of neurologists with a Dmand AI profile, by place and practice. Each opens the list.
395neurologists in Arizona120neurologists in Phoenix31neurologists at Dignity Health St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center
Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; and Dmand AI Peer Benchmarks
Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer billed Medicare for 533 services in 2024
CMS data shows 533 Medicare services from Dr. Shafer across 4 procedure codes in 2024, all of them office visits, for 344 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $64,001 for them.
Medicare services, 2024533
Medicare patients344
Paid by Medicare$64,001
Procedure codes4
Dr. Shafer's Medicare services by type, 2023 to 2024
- 2023
- 2024
- Office and hospital visits
- 2023: 9692024: 53345%
- Tests and treatments
- 2023: 512024: 0100%
Where Dr. Shafer's Medicare services took place, 2024
- In an office20639%
- In a facility32761%
Dr. Shafer compared with the Arizona median for neurologists, 2024
- Dr. Shafer
- Arizona median
- Medicare services
- 533vs 512Close to median
- Medicare patients
- 344vs 27226% above
- Part D claims
- 1,510vs 4873.1 times
Medians across 365 neurologists in Arizona with Dmand AI profiles that report each measure.
Dr. Shafer's most billed Medicare procedure codes, 2024
CMS publishes codes billed for 11 or more Medicare patients. Each label is the code family; CPT descriptions are licensed by the AMA.
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Sources: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider and Service (CMS), 2024 data; and Dmand AI Peer Benchmarks
Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer treated 344 Medicare patients in 2024, average age 77
CMS counts 344 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Shafer in 2024. The largest group is 75 to 84, with 167 patients. 75% of them have high blood pressure, and 75% have high cholesterol. 3% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 1.75, where 1.00 is the Medicare average, so they are sicker than most Medicare patients.
Across all payers, Dmand AI patient panel data puts Dr. Shafer's median patient age at 73, with 46% women.
Medicare patients, 2024344
Average age77
Average risk score1.75
Also on Medicaid3%
Dr. Shafer's Medicare patients by age, 2024
CMS leaves out age groups with fewer than 11 patients.
Dr. Shafer's Medicare patients by sex, 2024
- Women18955%
- Men15545%
Chronic conditions among Dr. Shafer's Medicare patients, 2024
- High blood pressure75%
- High cholesterol75%
- Parkinson's disease75%
- Arthritis60%
- Anxiety37%
- Mood disorders37%
- Depression35%
- Ischemic heart disease31%
Share of Medicare patients with each condition. A patient can have several.
Dr. Shafer's patients across all payers
Dmand AI patient panel data covers Medicare, Medicaid and commercial patients.
Patient panel by age, all payers
Median age 73
Patient panel by sex, all payers
- Women46%
- Men53%
Sources: Dmand AI Patient Panel Data; and Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS), 2024 data
Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer wrote 1,705 Medicare Part D claims in 2024
In 2024, Dr. Shafer wrote 1,705 Medicare Part D claims for 381 patients. 86% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 1,510 of them, across 27 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $606,343 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 2,228 claims across 35 drugs.
Part D claims, 20241,705
Drugs named by CMS27
Total drug cost$606,343
Part D patients381
Dr. Shafer's Part D claims by kind of drug, 2024
- Generic1,471 claims86%
- Brand-name and other234 claims14%
Dr. Shafer's most prescribed drugs by claims, 2024
CMS names a drug when it has 11 or more claims. Share is of the claims for drugs CMS names.
Drug classes CMS tracks in Dr. Shafer's Part D claims, 2024
- Antipsychotics, patients 65 and over3%45 of 1,705 claims
Share of all Part D claims for each drug class CMS reports on. Classes with no claims are left out.
Part D claims for drugs CMS names, 2023 to 2024
- 2023
- 2024
- Claims for drugs CMS names
- 2023: 2,2282024: 1,51032%
Drugs named by CMS: 27 in 2024, 35 in 2023.
Sources: Medicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider and Drug (CMS), 2024 data, released May 6, 2026; and Medicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider (CMS), 2024 data
Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer offers telehealth to Medicare patients
Dr. Shafer accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment. CMS lists Dr. Shafer as offering telehealth.
- Accepts Medicare assignment
- Yes
- Offers telehealth
- Yes
Source: Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS)
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Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer has 1 publication on record
Dmand AI links 1 paper to Dr. Shafer in 2017. Dr. Shafer's most frequent co-authors are Aman Deep, MD, Ravneet K. Dhillon, MBBS and Abraham Nathan Lieberman, MD.
Papers1
Dr. Shafer's most frequent co-authors
- Aman Deep, MD1 shared paper
- Ravneet K. Dhillon, MBBS1 shared paper
- Abraham Nathan Lieberman, MD1 shared paper
Recent publications by Dr. Shafer
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Sources: PubMed (National Library of Medicine); and Dmand AI Research Linkage
Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer received $64,389 in industry payments from 2016 to 2025
CMS Open Payments shows 176 general payments to Dr. Shafer from 15 drug and device companies from 2016 to 2025. Grants make up the largest share, 71% of the total. Medtronic USA, Inc. paid the most, $47,483.
General payments to Dr. Shafer by program year, 2016 to 2025
General payments to Dr. Shafer by kind, 2016 to 2025
$64.4Kin total
- Grants$45,75071%
- Food and beverage$8,18813%
- Speaker and faculty fees$6,92211%
- Travel and lodging$2,9345%
- Other$5941%
Companies that paid Dr. Shafer the most, 2016 to 2025
Share is of all general payments to this clinician.
Source: Open Payments (CMS), 2025 data, released July 7, 2026
Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer graduated from Touro Un Col of Osteopathic Medicine, Henderson
Dr. Shafer graduated from Touro Un Col of Osteopathic Medicine, Henderson in 2010.
- Medical school
Source: Dmand AI Professional Profile Data
Sources for Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer's profile data
| Data on this page | Source |
|---|---|
| NPI, name, sex, specialty and licenses | NPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Professional Profile Data |
| Practice locations and phone | Dmand AI Affiliation Data |
| Primary practice, affiliations and health system | Dmand AI Affiliation DataDmand AI Org Hierarchy Data |
| Medicare services and procedure codes | Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider and Service (CMS) (opens in a new tab) |
| State medians for the same specialty | Dmand AI Peer Benchmarks |
| Medicare patients and the all-payer patient panel | Dmand AI Patient Panel DataMedicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS) (opens in a new tab) |
| Part D prescribing | Medicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider and Drug (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Medicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider (CMS) (opens in a new tab) |
| MIPS scores, telehealth, assignment and procedure percentiles | Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS) (opens in a new tab) |
| Publications, topics and co-authors | PubMed (National Library of Medicine) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Research Linkage |
| Industry payments | Open Payments (CMS) (opens in a new tab) |
| Training, board certification and memberships | Dmand AI Professional Profile Data |
| EHR at each practice site | Dmand AI Technology Install Data |
| Similar physicians | Dmand AI Affiliation Data |
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What is Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer's NPI number?
Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer's NPI number is 1336460278. It was assigned on June 15, 2010, and it is active in the NPI Registry.
What kind of doctor is Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer?
Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer is a neurologist in Phoenix, Arizona. The primary specialty in the NPI Registry is Neurology Physician (taxonomy code 2084N0400X).
Where does Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer practice?
Dr. Shafer practices at 350 West Thomas Road, Phoenix, AZ 85013. Dr. Shafer's primary practice is Dignity Health St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, part of CommonSpirit Health. Dmand AI also links Dr. Shafer to 4 hospitals, 2 home health agencies, 1 group practice or clinic and 1 medical group.
What is Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer's office phone number?
The practice phone on file for Dr. Shafer is (602) 406-8225.
What is Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer's medical license number?
Dr. Shafer holds Arizona license 006647, one of the licenses on file in 3 states.
Which states has Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer been licensed in?
Dmand AI has state licenses on file for Dr. Shafer in Arizona, Illinois and Nevada.
Which hospitals is Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer affiliated with?
Dr. Shafer practices at Dignity Health St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Shafer is also affiliated with Select Specialty Hospital - Phoenix. Dmand AI links Dr. Shafer to 4 more hospitals.
What medical group is Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer part of?
Dr. Shafer is linked to St. Joseph's Faculty Physicians. Dmand AI links Dr. Shafer to 1 more medical group.
Does Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer accept Medicare?
Yes. CMS data shows Dr. Shafer billed Medicare for 533 services in 2024, and Dr. Shafer accepts Medicare assignment.
Does Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer offer telehealth?
Yes. The CMS Doctors and Clinicians file lists Dr. Shafer as offering telehealth services.
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How many Medicare patients does Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer see?
CMS counts 344 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Shafer in 2024, with an average age of 77.
What services does Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer bill to Medicare?
In 2024, Dr. Shafer's most billed Medicare services were office visit, established patient (99215), office visit, established patient (99214) and office visit, new patient (99205).
Where did Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer go to medical school?
Dr. Shafer graduated from Touro Un Col of Osteopathic Medicine, Henderson in 2010.
What drugs does Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer prescribe most?
In 2024 Medicare Part D data, Dr. Shafer's most prescribed drugs by claims were Carbidopa-Levodopa, Rytary and Carbidopa-Levodopa ER.
Has Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer received payments from drug or device companies?
CMS Open Payments shows $64,389 in general payments to Dr. Shafer from 15 companies from 2016 to 2025. The largest total came from Medtronic USA, Inc.
How long has Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer been practicing?
Dr. Shafer graduated from medical school in 2010, 16 years ago.
Does Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer do research?
Dmand AI links 1 publication to Dr. Shafer.
Who does Dr. Saulena Sylvia Shafer publish with?
Dr. Shafer's most frequent co-authors are Aman Deep, MD (1 shared paper), Ravneet K. Dhillon, MBBS (1 shared paper) and Abraham Nathan Lieberman, MD (1 shared paper).
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