Dr. Santosh Kumar Dhungana, MD

Dr. Dhungana practices at High Point Behavioral Health in High Point, North Carolina.

Dr. Dhungana's NPI, 1598324329, was assigned on June 5, 2019. Dr. Dhungana holds North Carolina license 2022-01310.

Dr. Dhungana's primary practice is High Point Behavioral Health, at 601 North Elm Street, High Point, NC 27261. The practice phone is (800) 525-9375.

Dr. Dhungana's primary practice is High Point Behavioral Health in High Point, North Carolina. Dr. Dhungana is also affiliated with High Point Medical Center. The medical group on file is Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. Dmand AI also links Dr. Dhungana to 1 more hospital and 1 medical group, each named with a free account.

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

Hospitalist is Dr. Dhungana's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 208M00000X. Dr. Dhungana is licensed in North Carolina.

CMS data shows 307 Medicare services from Dr. Dhungana across 3 procedure codes in 2024, for 129 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $20,445 for them. Every service was in a facility, such as a hospital, rather than an office.

CMS counts 129 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Dhungana in 2024. The largest group is 75 to 84, with 49 patients. 75% of them have high blood pressure, and 75% have high cholesterol. 30% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 2.94, 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. Dhungana's median patient age at 74, with 54% women.

In 2024, Dr. Dhungana wrote 465 Medicare Part D claims for 174 patients. 89% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 178 of them, across 10 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $9,751 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 400 claims across 23 drugs.

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

Dmand AI links 9 papers to Dr. Dhungana, published from 2017 to 2022. 2018 was the busiest year, with 2. The most frequent topics are Nepal, Rural Population and Leadership. Dr. Dhungana's most frequent co-authors are Bibhav Acharya, MD, Ryan K. Schwarz, MBA, MD and Stephen M. Mehanni, MD.

CMS Open Payments shows 3 general payments to Dr. Dhungana from 3 drug and device companies from 2021 to 2023. Food and beverage make up the largest share, 100% of the total. Masimo Corporation paid the most, $17.