Dr. Richard Sartori Dowd, MD

Dr. Dowd practices at Southcoast Health at Home in Fairhaven, Massachusetts.

Dr. Dowd's NPI, 1528446465, was assigned on May 12, 2015. Dr. Dowd holds Massachusetts license 295325.

Dr. Dowd's primary practice is Southcoast Health at Home, at 200 Mill Road, Fairhaven, MA 02719. The practice phone is (508) 973-3210.

Dr. Dowd's primary practice is Southcoast Health at Home in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. Dr. Dowd is also affiliated with Charlton Memorial Hospital. The medical group on file is Southcoast Health. Dmand AI also links Dr. Dowd to 2 more group practices and clinics and 2 medical groups, each named with a free account. Dr. Dowd's employer is on file too: a home health agency.

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

Neurological surgery is Dr. Dowd's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 207T00000X. Dmand AI has Dr. Dowd's licenses on file in 2 states: Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

CMS data shows 798 Medicare services from Dr. Dowd across 14 procedure codes in 2024, for 275 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $70,758 for them.

CMS counts 275 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Dowd in 2024. The largest group is 65 to 74, with 102 patients. 75% of them have arthritis, and 75% have high blood pressure. 31% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 1.42, where 1.00 is the Medicare average.

Across all payers, Dmand AI patient panel data puts Dr. Dowd's median patient age at 70, with 53% women.

In 2024, Dr. Dowd wrote 88 Medicare Part D claims for 55 patients. 99% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 43 of them, across 2 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $262 in total drug cost. In 2017, CMS named 15 claims across 1 drug.

Dr. Dowd accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment. CMS lists Dr. Dowd as offering telehealth. CMS counts 63 procedures of laminectomy or laminotomy (partial removal of spine bones) by Dr. Dowd, more than 84% of the clinicians it reports for that procedure.

Dmand AI links 13 papers to Dr. Dowd, published from 2017 to 2025. 2020 was the busiest year, with 4. The most frequent topics are Amyloid Neuropathies, Familial, Ligamentum Flavum and Spinal Stenosis. Dr. Dowd has published most often in World Neurosurg. Dr. Dowd's most frequent co-authors are Ron I. Riesenburger, MD, Knarik V. Arkun, MD and Raymond L. Comenzo, MD.

CMS Open Payments shows 66 general payments to Dr. Dowd from 9 drug and device companies from 2023 to 2025. Travel and lodging make up the largest share, 82% of the total. Spineart USA Inc paid the most, $3,387.