Dr. Harshith Reddy Avula, MD

Dr. Avula practices at Walnut Creek Medical Center in Walnut Creek, California, part of Kaiser Permanente.

Dr. Avula's NPI, 1427494616, was assigned on May 15, 2013. Dr. Avula graduated from UC San Diego School of Medicine in 2013. Dr. Avula's Pennsylvania license number on file is MT204162.

Dr. Avula's primary practice is Walnut Creek Medical Center, at 1425 S Main Street, Walnut Creek, CA 94596 in Contra Costa County. The practice phone is (925) 295-4000.

Dr. Avula's primary practice is Walnut Creek Medical Center in Walnut Creek, California, part of Kaiser Permanente. Dr. Avula is also affiliated with Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. The medical group on file is The Permanente Medical Group, Inc. Dmand AI also links Dr. Avula to 1 more hospital, named with a free account.

Dmand AI tracks the electronic health record (EHR) system at each site where Dr. Avula practices, 3 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.

Internal medicine is Dr. Avula's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 207R00000X. Dr. Avula is board certified in advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dmand AI has Dr. Avula's licenses on file in 2 states: Pennsylvania and California.

Dmand AI lists chronic hypertension and heart failure among the conditions Dr. Avula treats.

CMS data shows 87 Medicare services from Dr. Avula across 1 procedure code in 2024, for 92 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $577 for them. Every service was in a facility, such as a hospital, rather than an office.

CMS counts 92 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Avula in 2024. The largest group is 65 to 74, with 36 patients. 75% of them have high blood pressure, and 54% have high cholesterol. 65% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 2.30, 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. Avula's median patient age at 59, with 59% women.

In 2024, Dr. Avula wrote 3,136 Medicare Part D claims for 543 patients. 82% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 3,014 of them, across 38 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $1,494,361 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 2,495 claims across 36 drugs.

Dr. Avula accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment.

Dmand AI links 6 papers to Dr. Avula, published from 2018 to 2024. 2018 was the busiest year, with 2. The most frequent topics are Heart Failure, Natural Language Processing and Disease Progression. Dr. Avula's most frequent co-authors are Alan S. Go, MD, Jesse Keiser Fitzpatrick, MD and Keane K. Lee, MD.

CMS Open Payments shows 8 general payments to Dr. Avula from 5 drug and device companies from 2018 to 2025. Grants make up the largest share, 85% of the total. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. paid the most, $7,500.

Dr. Avula graduated from UC San Diego School of Medicine in 2013.

Dr. Avula is in network with 2 carriers, including Kaiser Permanente and CMS Medicare. EPO plans come from the most carriers, 1. Check the plan with the practice before a visit.