Dr. Pegah Afra, MD

Dr. Afra practices at Umass Memorial Medical Center in Mendon, Massachusetts.

Dr. Afra's NPI, 1144376831, was assigned on January 26, 2007. Dr. Afra holds Massachusetts license 295425.

Dr. Afra's primary practice is Umass Memorial Medical Center, at 55 North Ave, Mendon, MA 01756 in Worcester County. The practice phone is (508) 334-1000.

Dr. Afra's primary practice is Umass Memorial Medical Center in Mendon, Massachusetts. Dr. Afra is also affiliated with UMass Memorial Medical Center - University Campus. The medical group on file is UMass Memorial Medical Group. Dmand AI also links Dr. Afra to 2 more hospitals and 1 medical group, each named with a free account.

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

Neurology is Dr. Afra's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 2084N0400X. Dmand AI has Dr. Afra's licenses on file in 3 states: Massachusetts, New York and Utah.

CMS data shows 307 Medicare services from Dr. Afra across 6 procedure codes in 2024, for 213 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $33,696 for them. Every service was in a facility, such as a hospital, rather than an office.

CMS counts 213 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Afra in 2024. The largest group is under 65, with 87 patients. 69% of them have high blood pressure, and 67% have high cholesterol. 56% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 1.78, 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. Afra's median patient age at 59, with 49% women.

In 2024, Dr. Afra wrote 875 Medicare Part D claims for 65 patients. 69% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 760 of them, across 23 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $378,696 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 215 claims across 8 drugs.

CMS publishes a Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) score of 100 out of 100 for Dr. Afra for performance year 2024, reported through an alternative payment model (APM). Dr. Afra accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment. CMS lists Dr. Afra as offering telehealth.

Dmand AI links 19 papers to Dr. Afra, published from 2007 to 2024. 2021 was the busiest year, with 4. The most frequent topics are Electroencephalography, Seizures and Drug Resistant Epilepsy. Dr. Afra has published most often in Seizure. Dr. Afra's most frequent co-authors are Bola Adamolekun, MD, Selim Ramin Benbadis, MD and Safdar Abbas Ansari, MD.

CMS Open Payments shows 84 general payments to Dr. Afra from 7 drug and device companies from 2016 to 2024. Speaker and faculty fees make up the largest share, 60% of the total. UCB, Inc. paid the most, $23,247.