Dr. Waasil Kareem, MD
- Medicare services, 2024
- 1,284
- Medicare patients, 2024
- 431
- Part D claims, 2024
- 339
- Publications
- 2
- MIPS score, 2024
- 93
- Practice address
- 1500 Duarte Rd, Duarte, CA 91010
- Practice phone
- Call (800) 826-4673
- Professional email
- Get professional email
- Personal email
- Get personal email
- Mobile number
- Get mobile number
Primary practice
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center - Duarte
Duarte, California
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Dr. Waasil Kareem is a pulmonologist in Duarte, California
Dr. Kareem practices at City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center - Duarte in Duarte, California.
Dr. Kareem's NPI, 1588003602, was assigned on June 21, 2013. Dr. Kareem graduated from Royal College of Surgeons Ireland in 2013. Dr. Kareem holds California license A148360.
- NPI
- 1588003602NPI Registry (opens in a new tab)
- Medicare PAC ID
- 6608171061
- NPI enumeration date
- June 21, 2013
- NPI status
- Active
- Accepts Medicare assignment
- Yes
- Offers telehealth
- Yes
- Practice phone
- (800) 826-4673
- Professional email
- Get email
- Personal email
- Get email
- Mobile number
- Get number
- Sex
- Male
- Estimated age
- 39
- Medical school graduation
- 2013
Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; Dmand AI Practice Data; and Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS)
Dr. Waasil Kareem practices at City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center - Duarte in Duarte, California
Dr. Kareem's primary practice is City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center - Duarte, at 1500 Duarte Rd, Duarte, CA 91010 in Los Angeles County. The practice phone is (800) 826-4673.
- City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center - Duarte1500 Duarte Rd, Duarte, CA 91010 · Los Angeles CountyPhone(800) 826-4673
Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); and Dmand AI Practice Data
Dr. Waasil Kareem is affiliated with 4 sites of care and 1 medical group
Dr. Kareem's primary practice is City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center - Duarte in Duarte, California. The medical group on file is City of Hope. Dmand AI also links Dr. Kareem to 2 more home health agencies and 1 other site, each named with a free account.
Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Practice Data; Dmand AI Affiliation Data; and Dmand AI Org Hierarchy Data
Dmand AI tracks the EHR system at Dr. Waasil Kareem's practice
Dmand AI tracks the electronic health record (EHR) system at each site where Dr. Kareem practices, 3 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.
| Site | EHR vendor and product |
|---|---|
| City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center - Duarte | Available with a free account |
| +3 more affiliated sites | Available with a free account |
Source: Dmand AI Technology Install Data
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Dr. Waasil Kareem is one of 1,339 pulmonologists in California
Pulmonary disease is Dr. Kareem's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 207RP1001X. Dr. Kareem is board certified in critical care medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dmand AI has Dr. Kareem's licenses on file in 2 states: California and Pennsylvania.
Specialties and state licenses
- Pulmonary disease, CaliforniaPrimary
- Pennsylvania license
Pulmonologists near Dr. Kareem
Counts of pulmonologists with a Dmand AI profile, by place and practice. Each opens the list.
Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; and Dmand AI Peer Benchmarks
Dr. Waasil Kareem billed Medicare for 1,284 services in 2024
CMS data shows 1,284 Medicare services from Dr. Kareem across 17 procedure codes in 2024, for 431 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $140,164 for them.
Dr. Kareem's Medicare services by type, 2023 to 2024
- 2023
- 2024
- Surgery
- 2023: 4332024: 64850%
- Office and hospital visits
- 2023: 5262024: 63621%
Where Dr. Kareem's Medicare services took place, 2024
- In an office766%
- In a facility1,20894%
Dr. Kareem compared with the California median for pulmonologists, 2024
- Dr. Kareem
- California median
- Medicare services
- 1,284vs 64998% above
- Medicare patients
- 431vs 27258% above
- Part D claims
- 228vs 42146% below
Medians across 1,263 pulmonologists in California with Dmand AI profiles that report each measure.
Dr. Kareem'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. Waasil Kareem treated 431 Medicare patients in 2024, average age 73
CMS counts 431 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Kareem in 2024. The largest group is 65 to 74, with 209 patients. 75% of them have high blood pressure, and 75% have high cholesterol. 38% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 3.19, 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. Kareem's median patient age at 70, with 53% women.
Dr. Kareem's Medicare patients by age, 2024
Dr. Kareem's Medicare patients by sex, 2024
- Women22051%
- Men21149%
Chronic conditions among Dr. Kareem's Medicare patients, 2024
- High blood pressure75%
- High cholesterol75%
- Cancer60%
- Arthritis44%
- Diabetes42%
- COPD39%
- Ischemic heart disease36%
- Chronic kidney disease35%
Share of Medicare patients with each condition. A patient can have several.
Dr. Kareem's patients across all payers
Dmand AI patient panel data covers Medicare, Medicaid and commercial patients.
Patient panel by age, all payers
Median age 70
Patient panel by sex, all payers
- Women53%
- Men47%
Sources: Dmand AI Patient Panel Data; and Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS), 2024 data
Dr. Waasil Kareem wrote 339 Medicare Part D claims in 2024
In 2024, Dr. Kareem wrote 339 Medicare Part D claims for 62 patients. 46% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 228 of them, across 7 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $56,491 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 225 claims across 8 drugs.
Dr. Kareem's Part D claims by kind of drug, 2024
- Generic157 claims46%
- Brand-name182 claims54%
Dr. Kareem'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. Kareem's Part D claims, 2024
- Antibiotics13%45 of 339 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: 2252024: 2281%
Drugs named by CMS: 7 in 2024, 8 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. Waasil Kareem scored 93 out of 100 in Medicare's MIPS program for 2024
CMS publishes a Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) score of 93 out of 100 for Dr. Kareem for performance year 2024, reported as part of a group. Dr. Kareem accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment. CMS lists Dr. Kareem as offering telehealth.
- Accepts Medicare assignment
- Yes
- Offers telehealth
- Yes
Dr. Kareem's MIPS scores, performance year 2024
- 93of 100Final score
- 78.5of 100Quality
- 100of 100Promoting Interoperability
- 40of 100Improvement Activities
- 70of 100Cost
Each score is out of 100. The final score weighs the categories CMS scored for this clinician.
Sources: Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS); and Clinician Public Reporting: Overall MIPS Performance (CMS), 2024 data, released September 10, 2026
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Dr. Waasil Kareem has 2 publications on record
Dmand AI links 2 papers to Dr. Kareem, published from 2023 to 2024. Dr. Kareem has published most often in J Intensive Care Med. Dr. Kareem's most frequent co-authors are Vaibhav Agrawal, MD, Hoda Pourhassan and Amandeep Salhotra, MD.
Dr. Kareem's most frequent co-authors
Recent publications by Dr. Kareem
J Intensive Care Med
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Sources: PubMed (National Library of Medicine); and Dmand AI Research Linkage
Dr. Waasil Kareem received $153,755 in industry payments from 2019 to 2025
CMS Open Payments shows 182 general payments to Dr. Kareem from 15 drug and device companies from 2019 to 2025. Education make up the largest share, 50% of the total. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. paid the most, $121,738.
General payments to Dr. Kareem by program year, 2019 to 2025
General payments to Dr. Kareem by kind, 2019 to 2025
- Education$76,20050%
- Speaker and faculty fees$38,00025%
- Grants$30,00020%
- Food and beverage$7,3525%
- Travel and lodging$2,2031%
Companies that paid Dr. Kareem the most, 2019 to 2025
Share is of all general payments to this clinician.
Source: Open Payments (CMS), 2025 data, released July 7, 2026
Dr. Waasil Kareem graduated from Royal College of Surgeons Ireland
Dr. Kareem graduated from Royal College of Surgeons Ireland in 2013.
- Medical school
- Board certified in critical care medicine
- Board certified in internal medicine
- Board certified in pulmonary disease
Source: Dmand AI Professional Profile Data
Dr. Waasil Kareem accepts plans from 13 insurance carriers
Dr. Kareem is in network with 13 carriers, including Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and United Healthcare. Medicare plans come from the most carriers, 9. Check the plan with the practice before a visit.
- Aetna
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
- United Healthcare
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
- Elevance
- HCSC
- Regence Health Plans
- Alliant Health Plans
- +5 more carriersWith a free account
Plan types Dr. Kareem accepts, by number of carriers
- Medicare9
- PPO8
- HMO5
- POS3
- EPO2
Source: Dmand AI Insurance Network Data
Sources for Dr. Waasil Kareem'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 | NPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Practice Data |
| Primary practice, affiliations and health system | NPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Practice DataDmand 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)Clinician Public Reporting: Overall MIPS Performance (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 |
| Insurance carriers and plan types | Dmand AI Insurance Network Data |
| EHR at each practice site | Dmand AI Technology Install Data |
| Similar physicians | Dmand AI Affiliation Data |
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What is Dr. Waasil Kareem's NPI number?
Dr. Waasil Kareem's NPI number is 1588003602. It was assigned on June 21, 2013, and it is active in the NPI Registry.
What kind of doctor is Dr. Waasil Kareem?
Dr. Waasil Kareem is a pulmonologist in Duarte, California. The primary specialty in the NPI Registry is Pulmonary Disease Physician (taxonomy code 207RP1001X).
Where does Dr. Waasil Kareem practice?
Dr. Kareem practices at 1500 Duarte Rd, Duarte, CA 91010. Dr. Kareem's primary practice is City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center - Duarte in Duarte, California. Dmand AI also links Dr. Kareem to 2 home health agencies and 1 other site.
What is Dr. Waasil Kareem's office phone number?
The practice phone on file for Dr. Kareem is (800) 826-4673.
What is Dr. Waasil Kareem's medical license number?
Dr. Kareem holds California license A148360, one of the licenses on file in 2 states.
Which states has Dr. Waasil Kareem been licensed in?
Dmand AI has state licenses on file for Dr. Kareem in California (2017 to 2026) and Pennsylvania (2013 to 2018).
What medical group is Dr. Waasil Kareem part of?
Dr. Kareem is linked to City of Hope.
Does Dr. Waasil Kareem accept Medicare?
Yes. CMS data shows Dr. Kareem billed Medicare for 1,284 services in 2024, and Dr. Kareem accepts Medicare assignment.
Does Dr. Waasil Kareem offer telehealth?
Yes. The CMS Doctors and Clinicians file lists Dr. Kareem as offering telehealth services.
What is Dr. Waasil Kareem's MIPS score?
Dr. Kareem's MIPS final score for performance year 2024 is 93 out of 100, reported as part of a group.
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How many Medicare patients does Dr. Waasil Kareem see?
CMS counts 431 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Kareem in 2024, with an average age of 73.
Is Dr. Waasil Kareem board certified?
Yes. Dr. Kareem is board certified in critical care medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
What services does Dr. Waasil Kareem bill to Medicare?
In 2024, Dr. Kareem's most billed Medicare services were critical care (99291), office visit, established patient (99215) and hospital inpatient care (99233).
Where did Dr. Waasil Kareem go to medical school?
Dr. Kareem graduated from Royal College of Surgeons Ireland in 2013.
What drugs does Dr. Waasil Kareem prescribe most?
In 2024 Medicare Part D data, Dr. Kareem's most prescribed drugs by claims were Trelegy Ellipta, Albuterol Sulfate Hfa and Azithromycin.
Has Dr. Waasil Kareem received payments from drug or device companies?
CMS Open Payments shows $153,755 in general payments to Dr. Kareem from 15 companies from 2019 to 2025. The largest total came from Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
How long has Dr. Waasil Kareem been practicing?
Dr. Kareem graduated from medical school in 2013, 13 years ago.
Does Dr. Waasil Kareem do research?
Dmand AI links 2 publications to Dr. Kareem, published from 2023 to 2024.
Who does Dr. Waasil Kareem publish with?
Dr. Kareem's most frequent co-authors are Vaibhav Agrawal, MD (1 shared paper), Hoda Pourhassan (1 shared paper) and Amandeep Salhotra, MD (1 shared paper).
What insurance does Dr. Waasil Kareem accept?
Dr. Kareem is in network with 13 carriers, including Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and United Healthcare. Medicare plans come from the most carriers, 9. Check the plan with the practice before a visit.
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