Sunny B. Changappa

Sunny Changappa practices at Frye Regional Medical Center in Hickory, North Carolina, part of Lifepoint Health.

Sunny Changappa's NPI, 1033318704, was assigned on July 13, 2007. Sunny Changappa holds North Carolina license 2008-01143.

Sunny Changappa's primary practice is Frye Regional Medical Center, at 420 N Center St, Hickory, NC 28601 in Catawba County. The practice phone is (828) 322-6070.

Sunny Changappa's primary practice is Frye Regional Medical Center in Hickory, North Carolina, part of Lifepoint Health. Sunny Changappa is also affiliated with Atrium Health University City. The medical group on file is Atrium Health Cleveland Imaging. Dmand AI also links Sunny Changappa to 1 more hospital and 6 medical groups, each named with a free account.

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

Hospitalist is Sunny Changappa's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 208M00000X. Dmand AI has Sunny Changappa's licenses on file in 2 states: North Carolina and South Carolina.

CMS data shows 1,019 Medicare services from Sunny Changappa across 5 procedure codes in 2024, for 303 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $84,029 for them. Every service was in a facility, such as a hospital, rather than an office.

CMS counts 303 Medicare patients who saw Sunny Changappa in 2024. The largest group is 75 to 84, with 122 patients. 75% of them have high blood pressure, and 75% have high cholesterol. 18% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 2.18, where 1.00 is the Medicare average, so they are sicker than most Medicare patients.

Across all payers, Dmand AI patient panel data puts Sunny Changappa's median patient age at 71, with 53% women.

In 2024, Sunny Changappa wrote 718 Medicare Part D claims for 258 patients. 90% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 443 of them, across 19 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $17,265 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 298 claims across 15 drugs.

Sunny Changappa accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment.

CMS Open Payments shows 4 general payments to Sunny Changappa from 3 drug and device companies from 2018 to 2023. Food and beverage make up the largest share, 82% of the total. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation paid the most, $34.