Dr. Chong Shou, MD

Dr. Shou practices at MelroseWakefield Hospital in Melrose, Massachusetts, part of Tufts Medicine.

Dr. Shou's NPI, 1508125535, was assigned on May 11, 2012. Dr. Shou holds Massachusetts license 261974.

Dr. Shou's primary practice is MelroseWakefield Hospital, at 585 Lebanon Street, Melrose, MA 02176 in Middlesex County. The practice phone is (781) 979-3000.

Dr. Shou's primary practice is MelroseWakefield Hospital in Melrose, Massachusetts, part of Tufts Medicine. Dr. Shou is also affiliated with Tufts Medical Center. The medical group on file is Massachusetts Acute Care Specialists. Dmand AI also links Dr. Shou to 2 more hospitals and 2 medical groups, each named with a free account.

Dmand AI tracks the electronic health record (EHR) system at each site where Dr. Shou practices, 4 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.

Hospitalist is Dr. Shou's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 208M00000X. Dr. Shou is licensed in Massachusetts.

CMS data shows 1,084 Medicare services from Dr. Shou across 6 procedure codes in 2024, for 517 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $86,614 for them. Every service was in a facility, such as a hospital, rather than an office.

CMS counts 517 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Shou in 2024. The largest group is 75 to 84, with 184 patients. 75% of them have high blood pressure, and 75% have high cholesterol. 34% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 2.48, 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. Shou's median patient age at 74, with 53% women.

In 2024, Dr. Shou wrote 267 Medicare Part D claims for 148 patients. 87% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 112 of them, across 6 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $10,970 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 71 claims across 5 drugs.

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

Dmand AI links 10 papers to Dr. Shou, published from 2010 to 2023. 2011 was the busiest year, with 4. The most frequent topics are Gene Expression Profiling, Algorithms and Caenorhabditis elegans. Dr. Shou has published most often in Genome Biol. Dr. Shou's most frequent co-authors are Kevin Yip, MD, Ekta Khurana, MD and John K. Kim, MD.

CMS Open Payments shows 6 general payments to Dr. Shou from 4 drug and device companies from 2023 to 2024. Food and beverage make up the largest share, 100% of the total. ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) paid the most, $57.