Dr. Cheerag Dipakkumar Upadhyaya, MD

Dr. Upadhyaya practices at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, part of University of North Carolina Health Care System.

Dr. Upadhyaya's NPI, 1720101827, was assigned on April 6, 2007. Dr. Upadhyaya graduated from University of Florida College of Medicine in 2001. Dr. Upadhyaya holds North Carolina license 2022-01028.

Dr. Upadhyaya's primary practice is UNC Hospitals, at 101 Manning Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 in Orange County. The practice phone is (919) 966-4141.

Dr. Upadhyaya's primary practice is UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, part of University of North Carolina Health Care System. The medical group on file is UNC Faculty Physicians. Dmand AI also links Dr. Upadhyaya to 1 more therapy and rehab clinic, named with a free account.

Dmand AI tracks the electronic health record (EHR) system at each site where Dr. Upadhyaya practices, 2 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.

Neurological surgery is Dr. Upadhyaya's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 207T00000X. Dmand AI has Dr. Upadhyaya's licenses on file in 3 states: North Carolina, Missouri and Washington.

CMS data shows 234 Medicare services from Dr. Upadhyaya across 5 procedure codes in 2024, for 203 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $15,009 for them. Every service was in an office.

CMS counts 203 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Upadhyaya in 2024. The largest group is 65 to 74, with 89 patients. 75% of them have arthritis, and 75% have high blood pressure. 12% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 1.55, 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. Upadhyaya's median patient age at 72, with 54% women.

In 2024, Dr. Upadhyaya wrote 89 Medicare Part D claims for 43 patients. 98% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 68 of them, across 4 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $618 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 45 claims across 3 drugs.

Dr. Upadhyaya accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment. CMS lists Dr. Upadhyaya as offering telehealth. CMS counts 11 procedures of laminectomy or laminotomy (partial removal of spine bones) by Dr. Upadhyaya, more than 35% of the clinicians it reports for that procedure.

Dmand AI links 47 papers to Dr. Upadhyaya, published from 2010 to 2025. 2023 was the busiest year, with 11. The most frequent topics are Cervical Vertebrae, Spinal Cord Diseases and Spondylosis. Dr. Upadhyaya has published most often in J Neurosurg Spine. Dr. Upadhyaya's most frequent co-authors are Mohamad Bydon, MD, Eric A. Potts, MD and Michael Yung-Shun Wang, MD.

CMS Open Payments shows 69 general payments to Dr. Upadhyaya from 11 drug and device companies from 2016 to 2025. Consulting fees make up the largest share, 43% of the total. BK Medical Holding Company Inc. paid the most, $14,774.

Dr. Upadhyaya graduated from University of Florida College of Medicine in 2001.