Dr. Ankush Sharma, MD

  • Covina, CA
  • Internist
NPI1649433616PAC ID3678743119
Medicare services, 2024
2,327
Medicare patients, 2024
658
Part D claims, 2024
609
Publications
5
MIPS score, 2024
75
Practice address
500 W San Bernardino Rd, Covina, CA 91722
Practice phone
Call (626) 610-2112
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Primary practice

Citrus Valley Gastroenterology a Medical Corporation

Covina, California

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Dr. Ankush Sharma is an internist in Covina, California

Dr. Sharma practices at Citrus Valley Gastroenterology a Medical Corporation in Covina, California.

Dr. Sharma's NPI, 1649433616, was assigned on July 9, 2008. Dr. Sharma graduated from American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine in 2008. Dr. Sharma's Pennsylvania license number on file is MT193946.

NPI and contact details
Medicare PAC ID
3678743119
NPI enumeration date
July 9, 2008
NPI status
Active
Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes
Offers telehealth
Yes
Practice phone
(626) 610-2112
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Sex
Male
Estimated age
44
Medical school graduation
2008

Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; Dmand AI Practice Data; and Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS)

Dr. Ankush Sharma practices at Citrus Valley Gastroenterology a Medical Corporation in Covina, California

Dr. Sharma's primary practice is Citrus Valley Gastroenterology a Medical Corporation, at 500 W San Bernardino Rd, Covina, CA 91722 in Los Angeles County. The practice phone is (626) 610-2112.

  • Citrus Valley Gastroenterology a Medical Corporation
    500 W San Bernardino Rd, Covina, CA 91722 · Los Angeles CountyPhone(626) 610-2112

Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); and Dmand AI Practice Data

Dr. Ankush Sharma is affiliated with 7 sites of care and 1 medical group

Dr. Sharma's primary practice is Citrus Valley Gastroenterology a Medical Corporation in Covina, California. Dr. Sharma is also affiliated with Emanate Health Inter-Community Hospital. The medical group on file is Citrus Valley Gastroenterology. Dmand AI also links Dr. Sharma to 4 more hospitals and 1 group practice or clinic, each named with a free account.

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Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Practice Data; and Dmand AI Affiliation Data

Dmand AI tracks the EHR system at Dr. Ankush Sharma's practice

Dmand AI tracks the electronic health record (EHR) system at each site where Dr. Sharma practices, 6 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.

EHR by site
SiteEHR vendor and product
Citrus Valley Gastroenterology a Medical CorporationAvailable with a free account
+6 more affiliated sitesAvailable with a free account

Source: Dmand AI Technology Install Data

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Dr. Ankush Sharma is one of 16,751 internists in California

Internal medicine is Dr. Sharma's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 207R00000X. Dmand AI has Dr. Sharma's licenses on file in 3 states: Pennsylvania, California and Ohio.

Specialties and state licenses

  • Internal medicine, PennsylvaniaPrimaryLicense MT193946 · 2008 to 2011 · taxonomy 207R00000X
  • California license2010 to 2026
  • Ohio license2015 to 2020

Clinical focus

Dmand AI lists acid reflux, chronic indigestion, cirrhosis of the liver, colonoscopy, fatty liver, gastroduodenitis, gastroenteritis and gastrointestinal bleeding among the conditions Dr. Sharma treats.

Internists near Dr. Sharma

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Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; and Dmand AI Peer Benchmarks

Dr. Ankush Sharma billed Medicare for 2,327 services in 2024

CMS data shows 2,327 Medicare services from Dr. Sharma across 13 procedure codes in 2024, for 658 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $177,096 for them.

Medicare services, 20242,327
Medicare patients658
Paid by Medicare$177,096
Procedure codes13

Dr. Sharma's Medicare services by type, 2023 to 2024

  • 2023
  • 2024
Office and hospital visits
2023: 1,0192024: 1,62559%
Lab and pathology
2023: 882024: 281219%
Surgery
2023: 1302024: 272109%
Other services
2023: 1182024: 14926%

Where Dr. Sharma's Medicare services took place, 2024

  • In an office60826%
  • In a facility1,71974%

Dr. Sharma compared with the California median for internists, 2024

  • Dr. Sharma
  • California median
Medicare services
2,327vs 3616.4 times
Medicare patients
658vs 1514.4 times
Part D claims
455vs 4218% above

Medians across 15,815 internists in California with Dmand AI profiles that report each measure.

Dr. Sharma'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. Ankush Sharma treated 658 Medicare patients in 2024, average age 73

CMS counts 658 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Sharma in 2024. The largest group is 65 to 74, with 265 patients. 75% of them have high blood pressure, and 75% have high cholesterol. 68% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 3.01, 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. Sharma's median patient age at 64, with 56% women.

Medicare patients, 2024658
Average age73
Average risk score3.01
Also on Medicaid68%

Dr. Sharma's Medicare patients by age, 2024

Dr. Sharma's Medicare patients by sex, 2024

  • Women36355%
  • Men29545%

Chronic conditions among Dr. Sharma's Medicare patients, 2024

  1. High blood pressure75%
  2. High cholesterol75%
  3. Diabetes59%
  4. Chronic kidney disease47%
  5. Arthritis46%
  6. Heart failure42%
  7. Ischemic heart disease40%
  8. COPD36%

Share of Medicare patients with each condition. A patient can have several.

Dr. Sharma's patients across all payers

Dmand AI patient panel data covers Medicare, Medicaid and commercial patients.

Patient panel by age, all payers

Median age 64

Patient panel by sex, all payers

  • Women56%
  • Men43%

Sources: Dmand AI Patient Panel Data; and Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS), 2024 data

Dr. Ankush Sharma wrote 609 Medicare Part D claims in 2024

In 2024, Dr. Sharma wrote 609 Medicare Part D claims for 187 patients. 73% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 455 of them, across 17 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $222,494 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 318 claims across 11 drugs.

Part D claims, 2024609
Drugs named by CMS17
Total drug cost$222,494
Part D patients187

Dr. Sharma's Part D claims by kind of drug, 2024

  • Generic446 claims73%
  • Brand-name163 claims27%

Dr. Sharma'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. Sharma's Part D claims, 2024

  • Antibiotics6%38 of 609 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: 3182024: 45543%

Drugs named by CMS: 17 in 2024, 11 in 2023.

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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. Ankush Sharma scored 75 out of 100 in Medicare's MIPS program for 2024

CMS publishes a Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) score of 75 out of 100 for Dr. Sharma for performance year 2024, reported individually. Dr. Sharma accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment. CMS lists Dr. Sharma as offering telehealth. CMS counts 192 procedures of upper gastrointestinal (gi) endoscopy for acid reflux by Dr. Sharma, more than 89% of the clinicians it reports for that procedure.

Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes
Offers telehealth
Yes
MIPS final score, 2024
75 of 100

Where Dr. Sharma ranks in Medicare procedure volume

Upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy for acid reflux
89th percentile192 procedures
Colonoscopy
87th percentile140 procedures

CMS ranks each clinician against every clinician it reports for the same procedure category.

Sources: Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS); Clinician Public Reporting: Overall MIPS Performance (CMS), 2024 data, released September 10, 2026; and Doctors and Clinicians Utilization Data (CMS)

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Dr. Ankush Sharma has 5 publications on record

Dmand AI links 5 papers to Dr. Sharma. Dr. Sharma's most frequent co-author is Roozbeh Houshyar, MD.

Papers5

Dr. Sharma's most frequent co-authors

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Sources: PubMed (National Library of Medicine); and Dmand AI Research Linkage

Dr. Ankush Sharma received $9,685 in industry payments from 2016 to 2025

CMS Open Payments shows 386 general payments to Dr. Sharma from 36 drug and device companies from 2016 to 2025. Food and beverage make up the largest share, 82% of the total. Abbvie Inc. paid the most, $3,973.

General payments to Dr. Sharma by program year, 2016 to 2025

General payments to Dr. Sharma by kind, 2016 to 2025

$9.7Kin total
  • Food and beverage$7,96382%
  • Travel and lodging$1,61217%
  • Education$681%
  • Consulting fees$430%

Companies that paid Dr. Sharma the most, 2016 to 2025

Share is of all general payments to this clinician.

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Source: Open Payments (CMS), 2025 data, released July 7, 2026

Dr. Ankush Sharma graduated from American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine

Dr. Sharma graduated from American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine in 2008.

  1. Medical schoolAmerican University of the Caribbean School of Medicine

Source: Dmand AI Professional Profile Data

Dr. Ankush Sharma accepts plans from 15 insurance carriers

Dr. Sharma is in network with 15 carriers, including Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and United Healthcare. HMO plans come from the most carriers, 9. Check the plan with the practice before a visit.

Plan types Dr. Sharma accepts, by number of carriers

  1. HMO9
  2. Medicare9
  3. PPO8
  4. EPO4
  5. POS3
  6. Medicaid1

Source: Dmand AI Insurance Network Data

Sources for Dr. Ankush Sharma's profile data

Sources for the data on this page
Data on this pageSource
NPI, name, sex, specialty and licensesNPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Professional Profile Data
Practice locations and phoneNPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Practice Data
Primary practice, affiliations and health systemNPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Practice DataDmand AI Affiliation Data
Medicare services and procedure codesMedicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider and Service (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
State medians for the same specialtyDmand AI Peer Benchmarks
Medicare patients and the all-payer patient panelDmand AI Patient Panel DataMedicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
Part D prescribingMedicare 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 percentilesDoctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Clinician Public Reporting: Overall MIPS Performance (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Doctors and Clinicians Utilization Data (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
Publications, topics and co-authorsPubMed (National Library of Medicine) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Research Linkage
Industry paymentsOpen Payments (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
Training, board certification and membershipsDmand AI Professional Profile Data
Insurance carriers and plan typesDmand AI Insurance Network Data
EHR at each practice siteDmand AI Technology Install Data
Similar physiciansDmand AI Affiliation Data

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What is Dr. Ankush Sharma's NPI number?

Dr. Ankush Sharma's NPI number is 1649433616. It was assigned on July 9, 2008, and it is active in the NPI Registry.

What kind of doctor is Dr. Ankush Sharma?

Dr. Ankush Sharma is an internist in Covina, California. The primary specialty in the NPI Registry is Internal Medicine Physician (taxonomy code 207R00000X).

Where does Dr. Ankush Sharma practice?

Dr. Sharma practices at 500 W San Bernardino Rd, Covina, CA 91722. Dr. Sharma's primary practice is Citrus Valley Gastroenterology a Medical Corporation in Covina, California. Dmand AI also links Dr. Sharma to 4 hospitals and 1 group practice or clinic.

What is Dr. Ankush Sharma's office phone number?

The practice phone on file for Dr. Sharma is (626) 610-2112.

What is Dr. Ankush Sharma's medical license number?

Dr. Sharma's Pennsylvania license number on file is MT193946, one of the licenses on file in 3 states.

Which states has Dr. Ankush Sharma been licensed in?

Dmand AI has state licenses on file for Dr. Sharma in Pennsylvania (2008 to 2011), California (2010 to 2026) and Ohio (2015 to 2020).

Which hospitals is Dr. Ankush Sharma affiliated with?

Dr. Sharma is affiliated with Emanate Health Inter-Community Hospital. Dmand AI links Dr. Sharma to 4 more hospitals.

What medical group is Dr. Ankush Sharma part of?

Dr. Sharma is linked to Citrus Valley Gastroenterology.

Does Dr. Ankush Sharma accept Medicare?

Yes. CMS data shows Dr. Sharma billed Medicare for 2,327 services in 2024, and Dr. Sharma accepts Medicare assignment.

Does Dr. Ankush Sharma offer telehealth?

Yes. The CMS Doctors and Clinicians file lists Dr. Sharma as offering telehealth services.

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What is Dr. Ankush Sharma's MIPS score?

Dr. Sharma's MIPS final score for performance year 2024 is 75 out of 100, reported individually.

How many Medicare patients does Dr. Ankush Sharma see?

CMS counts 658 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Sharma in 2024, with an average age of 73.

What services does Dr. Ankush Sharma bill to Medicare?

In 2024, Dr. Sharma's most billed Medicare services were hospital inpatient care (99232), lab and pathology test (88305) and hospital inpatient care (99223).

Where did Dr. Ankush Sharma go to medical school?

Dr. Sharma graduated from American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine in 2008.

What drugs does Dr. Ankush Sharma prescribe most?

In 2024 Medicare Part D data, Dr. Sharma's most prescribed drugs by claims were Pantoprazole Sodium, Famotidine and Gavilyte-G.

Has Dr. Ankush Sharma received payments from drug or device companies?

CMS Open Payments shows $9,685 in general payments to Dr. Sharma from 36 companies from 2016 to 2025. The largest total came from Abbvie Inc.

How long has Dr. Ankush Sharma been practicing?

Dr. Sharma graduated from medical school in 2008, 18 years ago.

Does Dr. Ankush Sharma do research?

Dmand AI links 5 publications to Dr. Sharma.

Who does Dr. Ankush Sharma publish with?

Dr. Sharma's most frequent co-authors are Roozbeh Houshyar, MD (1 shared paper).

What insurance does Dr. Ankush Sharma accept?

Dr. Sharma is in network with 15 carriers, including Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and United Healthcare. HMO plans come from the most carriers, 9. Check the plan with the practice before a visit.

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