Dr. Dinkar Kaw, MD

  • Toledo, OH
  • Nephrologist
NPI1255326849PAC ID4082500772
Medicare services, 2024
1,177
Medicare patients, 2024
389
Part D claims, 2024
2,753
Publications
18
MIPS score, 2024
88
Practice address
5201 Airport Highway, Toledo, OH 43614
Practice phone
Call (419) 214-0540
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Primary practice

DaVita Swan Creek Dialysis

Dialysis Center - Independent · Toledo, Ohio

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Dr. Dinkar Kaw is a nephrologist in Toledo, Ohio

Dr. Kaw practices at DaVita Swan Creek Dialysis in Toledo, Ohio.

Dr. Kaw's NPI, 1255326849, was assigned on September 20, 2005. Dr. Kaw holds Ohio license 35082093.

NPI and contact details
Medicare PAC ID
4082500772
NPI enumeration date
September 20, 2005
NPI status
Active
Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes
Practice phone
(419) 214-0540
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Sex
Male
Estimated age
71
Medical school graduation
1981

Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; Dmand AI Affiliation Data; and Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS)

Dr. Dinkar Kaw practices at DaVita Swan Creek Dialysis in Toledo, Ohio

Dr. Kaw's primary practice is DaVita Swan Creek Dialysis, at 5201 Airport Highway, Toledo, OH 43614 in Lucas County. The practice phone is (419) 214-0540.

  • DaVita Swan Creek Dialysis
    5201 Airport Highway, Toledo, OH 43614 · Lucas CountyPhone(419) 214-0540

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Dr. Dinkar Kaw is affiliated with 10 sites of care and 1 medical group

Dr. Kaw's primary practice is DaVita Swan Creek Dialysis in Toledo, Ohio. Dr. Kaw is also affiliated with University of Toledo Medical Center. The medical group on file is UT Physicians Group. Dmand AI also links Dr. Kaw to 4 more hospitals, 3 dialysis centers and 1 group practice or clinic, each named with a free account.

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Dmand AI tracks the EHR system at Dr. Dinkar Kaw's practice

Dmand AI tracks the electronic health record (EHR) system at each site where Dr. Kaw practices, 10 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.

EHR by site
SiteEHR vendor and product
DaVita Swan Creek DialysisAvailable with a free account
+9 more affiliated sitesAvailable with a free account

Source: Dmand AI Technology Install Data

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Dr. Dinkar Kaw is one of 407 nephrologists in Ohio

Nephrology is Dr. Kaw's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 207RN0300X. Dr. Kaw is licensed in Ohio.

Specialties and state licenses

  • Nephrology, OhioPrimaryLicense 35082093 · taxonomy 207RN0300X

Nephrologists near Dr. Kaw

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Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; and Dmand AI Peer Benchmarks

Dr. Dinkar Kaw billed Medicare for 1,177 services in 2024

CMS data shows 1,177 Medicare services from Dr. Kaw across 11 procedure codes in 2024, for 389 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $107,283 for them.

Medicare services, 20241,177
Medicare patients389
Paid by Medicare$107,283
Procedure codes11

Dr. Kaw's Medicare services by type, 2023 to 2024

  • 2023
  • 2024
Office and hospital visits
2023: 9392024: 9713%
Tests and treatments
2023: 3372024: 20639%

Where Dr. Kaw's Medicare services took place, 2024

  • In an office28925%
  • In a facility88875%

Dr. Kaw compared with the Ohio median for nephrologists, 2024

  • Dr. Kaw
  • Ohio median
Medicare services
1,177vs 79049% above
Medicare patients
389vs 30727% above
Part D claims
2,547vs 7673.3 times

Medians across 400 nephrologists in Ohio with Dmand AI profiles that report each measure.

Dr. Kaw's most billed Medicare procedure codes, 2024

CMS publishes codes billed for 11 or more Medicare patients. Each label is the code family; CPT descriptions are licensed by the AMA.

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Sources: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider and Service (CMS), 2024 data; and Dmand AI Peer Benchmarks

Dr. Dinkar Kaw treated 389 Medicare patients in 2024, average age 67

CMS counts 389 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Kaw in 2024. The largest group is 65 to 74, with 150 patients. 75% of them have chronic kidney disease, and 75% have high blood pressure. 31% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 5.35, 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. Kaw's median patient age at 69, with 43% women.

Medicare patients, 2024389
Average age67
Average risk score5.35
Also on Medicaid31%

Dr. Kaw's Medicare patients by age, 2024

Dr. Kaw's Medicare patients by sex, 2024

  • Women15640%
  • Men23360%

Chronic conditions among Dr. Kaw's Medicare patients, 2024

  1. Chronic kidney disease75%
  2. High blood pressure75%
  3. High cholesterol75%
  4. Diabetes69%
  5. Heart failure50%
  6. Ischemic heart disease50%
  7. Arthritis48%
  8. Mood disorders35%

Share of Medicare patients with each condition. A patient can have several.

Dr. Kaw's patients across all payers

Dmand AI patient panel data covers Medicare, Medicaid and commercial patients.

Patient panel by age, all payers

Median age 69

Patient panel by sex, all payers

  • Women43%
  • Men56%

Sources: Dmand AI Patient Panel Data; and Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS), 2024 data

Dr. Dinkar Kaw wrote 2,753 Medicare Part D claims in 2024

In 2024, Dr. Kaw wrote 2,753 Medicare Part D claims for 431 patients. 94% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 2,547 of them, across 50 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $114,724 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 2,412 claims across 43 drugs.

Part D claims, 20242,753
Drugs named by CMS50
Total drug cost$114,724
Part D patients431

Dr. Kaw's Part D claims by kind of drug, 2024

  • Generic2,596 claims94%
  • Brand-name and other157 claims6%

Dr. Kaw's most prescribed drugs by claims, 2024

CMS names a drug when it has 11 or more claims. Share is of the claims for drugs CMS names.

Drug classes CMS tracks in Dr. Kaw's Part D claims, 2024

  • Antibiotics3%71 of 2,753 claims

Share of all Part D claims for each drug class CMS reports on. Classes with no claims are left out.

Part D claims for drugs CMS names, 2023 to 2024

  • 2023
  • 2024
Claims for drugs CMS names
2023: 2,4122024: 2,5476%

Drugs named by CMS: 50 in 2024, 43 in 2023.

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Sources: Medicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider and Drug (CMS), 2024 data, released May 6, 2026; and Medicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider (CMS), 2024 data

Dr. Dinkar Kaw scored 88 out of 100 in Medicare's MIPS program for 2024

CMS publishes a Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) score of 88 out of 100 for Dr. Kaw for performance year 2024, reported as part of a group. Dr. Kaw accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment.

Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes

Dr. Kaw's MIPS scores, performance year 2024

  • 88of 100Final score
  • 69.2of 100Quality
  • 99of 100Promoting Interoperability
  • 40of 100Improvement Activities
  • 75of 100Cost

Each score is out of 100. The final score weighs the categories CMS scored for this clinician.

Sources: Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS); and Clinician Public Reporting: Overall MIPS Performance (CMS), 2024 data, released September 10, 2026

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Dr. Dinkar Kaw has 18 publications on record

Dmand AI links 18 papers to Dr. Kaw, published from 2011 to 2025. 2014 was the busiest year, with 3. The most frequent topics are Kidney Transplantation, Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular and Kidney Failure, Chronic. Dr. Kaw has published most often in Transplant Proc. Dr. Kaw's most frequent co-authors are Deepak K. Malhotra, MD, Shobha Ratnam, MD and Puneet Sindhwani, MD.

Papers18
Years published2011 to 2025

Dr. Kaw's papers by year, 2011 to 2025

Topics Dr. Kaw writes about most

  • Kidney Transplantation
  • Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic
  • Renal Artery Obstruction
  • Ventricular Remodeling

Dr. Kaw's most frequent co-authors

Recent publications by Dr. Kaw

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Sources: PubMed (National Library of Medicine); and Dmand AI Research Linkage

Dr. Dinkar Kaw received $778 in industry payments from 2016 to 2025

CMS Open Payments shows 15 general payments to Dr. Kaw from 9 drug and device companies from 2016 to 2025. Food and beverage make up the largest share, 86% of the total. Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. paid the most, $125.

General payments to Dr. Kaw by program year, 2016 to 2025

General payments to Dr. Kaw by kind, 2016 to 2025

$778in total
  • Food and beverage$66686%
  • Education$11214%

Companies that paid Dr. Kaw the most, 2016 to 2025

Share is of all general payments to this clinician.

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Source: Open Payments (CMS), 2025 data, released July 7, 2026

Sources for Dr. Dinkar Kaw's profile data

Sources for the data on this page
Data on this pageSource
NPI, name, sex, specialty and licensesNPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Professional Profile Data
Practice locations and phoneDmand AI Affiliation Data
Primary practice, affiliations and health systemDmand AI Affiliation DataDmand AI Org Hierarchy Data
Medicare services and procedure codesMedicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider and Service (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
State medians for the same specialtyDmand AI Peer Benchmarks
Medicare patients and the all-payer patient panelDmand AI Patient Panel DataMedicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
Part D prescribingMedicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider and Drug (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Medicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
MIPS scores, telehealth, assignment and procedure percentilesDoctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Clinician Public Reporting: Overall MIPS Performance (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
Publications, topics and co-authorsPubMed (National Library of Medicine) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Research Linkage
Industry paymentsOpen Payments (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
EHR at each practice siteDmand AI Technology Install Data
Similar physiciansDmand AI Affiliation Data

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What is Dr. Dinkar Kaw's NPI number?

Dr. Dinkar Kaw's NPI number is 1255326849. It was assigned on September 20, 2005, and it is active in the NPI Registry.

What kind of doctor is Dr. Dinkar Kaw?

Dr. Dinkar Kaw is a nephrologist in Toledo, Ohio. The primary specialty in the NPI Registry is Nephrology Physician (taxonomy code 207RN0300X).

Where does Dr. Dinkar Kaw practice?

Dr. Kaw practices at 5201 Airport Highway, Toledo, OH 43614. Dr. Kaw's primary practice is DaVita Swan Creek Dialysis in Toledo, Ohio. Dmand AI also links Dr. Kaw to 4 hospitals, 3 dialysis centers and 1 group practice or clinic.

What is Dr. Dinkar Kaw's office phone number?

The practice phone on file for Dr. Kaw is (419) 214-0540.

What is Dr. Dinkar Kaw's medical license number?

Dr. Kaw holds Ohio license 35082093.

Which hospitals is Dr. Dinkar Kaw affiliated with?

Dr. Kaw is affiliated with University of Toledo Medical Center. Dmand AI links Dr. Kaw to 4 more hospitals.

What medical group is Dr. Dinkar Kaw part of?

Dr. Kaw is linked to UT Physicians Group.

Does Dr. Dinkar Kaw accept Medicare?

Yes. CMS data shows Dr. Kaw billed Medicare for 1,177 services in 2024, and Dr. Kaw accepts Medicare assignment.

What is Dr. Dinkar Kaw's MIPS score?

Dr. Kaw's MIPS final score for performance year 2024 is 88 out of 100, reported as part of a group.

How many Medicare patients does Dr. Dinkar Kaw see?

CMS counts 389 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Kaw in 2024, with an average age of 67.

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What services does Dr. Dinkar Kaw bill to Medicare?

In 2024, Dr. Kaw's most billed Medicare services were hospital inpatient care (99232), office visit, established patient (99214) and dialysis (90935).

What drugs does Dr. Dinkar Kaw prescribe most?

In 2024 Medicare Part D data, Dr. Kaw's most prescribed drugs by claims were Prednisone, Carvedilol and Famotidine.

Has Dr. Dinkar Kaw received payments from drug or device companies?

CMS Open Payments shows $778 in general payments to Dr. Kaw from 9 companies from 2016 to 2025. The largest total came from Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.

How long has Dr. Dinkar Kaw been practicing?

Dr. Kaw graduated from medical school in 1981, 45 years ago.

Does Dr. Dinkar Kaw do research?

Dmand AI links 18 publications to Dr. Kaw, published from 2011 to 2025.

Who does Dr. Dinkar Kaw publish with?

Dr. Kaw's most frequent co-authors are Deepak K. Malhotra, MD (8 shared papers), Shobha Ratnam, MD (6 shared papers) and Puneet Sindhwani, MD (6 shared papers).

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