Dr. Tarun Rustagi, MD

Dr. Rustagi practices at Kern County Hospital Authority in Bakersfield, California.

Dr. Rustagi's NPI, 1801045513, was assigned on September 17, 2008. Dr. Rustagi holds California license 9622696.

Dr. Rustagi's primary practice is Kern County Hospital Authority, at 1700 Mt Vernon Ave, Bakersfield, CA 93306 in Kern County. The practice phone is (661) 326-2000.

Dr. Rustagi's primary practice is Kern County Hospital Authority in Bakersfield, California. Dr. Rustagi is also affiliated with Adventist Health Bakersfield. The medical group on file is Adventist Health Physicians Network. Dmand AI also links Dr. Rustagi to 4 more hospitals and 3 medical groups, each named with a free account.

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

Gastroenterology is Dr. Rustagi's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 207RG0100X. Dmand AI has Dr. Rustagi's licenses on file in 2 states: California and New Mexico.

CMS data shows 1,653 Medicare services from Dr. Rustagi across 27 procedure codes in 2024, for 510 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $165,720 for them. Every service was in a facility, such as a hospital, rather than an office.

CMS counts 510 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Rustagi in 2024. The largest group is 65 to 74, with 254 patients. 75% of them have high blood pressure, and 75% have high cholesterol. 67% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 2.31, 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. Rustagi's median patient age at 57, with 56% women.

In 2024, Dr. Rustagi wrote 326 Medicare Part D claims for 186 patients. 78% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 282 of them, across 6 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $3,806 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 90 claims across 3 drugs.

Dr. Rustagi accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment. CMS counts 913 procedures of upper gastrointestinal (gi) endoscopy for acid reflux by Dr. Rustagi, more than 99% of the clinicians it reports for that procedure.

Dmand AI links 135 papers to Dr. Rustagi, published from 2010 to 2024. 2020 was the busiest year, with 21. The most frequent topics are Stents, Endosonography and Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde. Dr. Rustagi has published most often in J Clin Gastroenterol. Dr. Rustagi's most frequent co-authors are Thomas Raymond McCarty, MD, MPH, Swathi Paleti, MD and Rishabh Gulati, MD.

CMS Open Payments shows 176 general payments to Dr. Rustagi from 21 drug and device companies from 2016 to 2025. Speaker and faculty fees make up the largest share, 37% of the total. Boston Scientific Corporation paid the most, $34,491.