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Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter, DO
NPI1619093655PAC ID5496816324
- Medicare services, 2024
- 1,580
- Medicare patients, 2024
- 423
- Part D claims, 2024
- 2,923
- Publications
- 1
- Hospital affiliations
- 5
- Practice address
- 595 Copeland Mill Rd, Westerville, OH 43081
- Practice phone
- Call (614) 823-8500
- Professional email
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- Personal email
- Get personal email
- Mobile number
- Get mobile number
Primary practice
Kidney Specialists
Westerville, Ohio
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Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter is a nephrologist in Westerville, Ohio
Dr. Bitter practices at Kidney Specialists in Westerville, Ohio.
Dr. Bitter's NPI, 1619093655, was assigned on March 21, 2007. Dr. Bitter graduated from Ohio Medical University in 2005. Dr. Bitter holds Ohio license 34.009370.
NPI and contact details
- NPI
- 1619093655NPI Registry (opens in a new tab)
- Medicare PAC ID
- 5496816324
- NPI enumeration date
- March 21, 2007
- NPI status
- Active
- Accepts Medicare assignment
- Yes
- Offers telehealth
- Yes
- Practice phone
- (614) 823-8500
- Professional email
- Get email
- Personal email
- Get email
- Mobile number
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- Sex
- Male
- Estimated age
- 47
- Medical school graduation
- 2005
Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; Dmand AI Practice Data; and Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS)
Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter practices at Kidney Specialists in Westerville, Ohio
Dr. Bitter's primary practice is Kidney Specialists, at 595 Copeland Mill Rd, Westerville, OH 43081 in Franklin County. The practice phone is (614) 823-8500.
- Kidney Specialists595 Copeland Mill Rd, Westerville, OH 43081 · Franklin CountyPhone(614) 823-8500
Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); and Dmand AI Practice Data
Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter is affiliated with 11 sites of care and 1 medical group
Dr. Bitter's primary practice is Kidney Specialists in Westerville, Ohio. Dr. Bitter is also affiliated with Mount Carmel St. Ann's. The medical group on file is Kidney Specialists. Dmand AI also links Dr. Bitter to 4 more hospitals, 4 dialysis centers and 1 group practice or clinic, each named with a free account.
Kidney SpecialistsPrimary
Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Practice Data; and Dmand AI Affiliation Data
Dmand AI tracks the EHR system at Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter's practice
Dmand AI tracks the electronic health record (EHR) system at each site where Dr. Bitter practices, 10 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.
| Site | EHR vendor and product |
|---|---|
| Kidney Specialists | Available with a free account |
| +10 more affiliated sites | Available with a free account |
Source: Dmand AI Technology Install Data
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Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter is one of 407 nephrologists in Ohio
Nephrology is Dr. Bitter's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 207RN0300X. Dr. Bitter is licensed in Ohio.
Specialties and state licenses
- Nephrology, OhioPrimary
Nephrologists near Dr. Bitter
Counts of nephrologists with a Dmand AI profile, by place and practice. Each opens the list.
407nephrologists in Ohio
5nephrologists in Westerville
Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; and Dmand AI Peer Benchmarks
Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter billed Medicare for 1,580 services in 2024
CMS data shows 1,580 Medicare services from Dr. Bitter across 13 procedure codes in 2024, for 423 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $143,458 for them.
Medicare services, 20241,580
Medicare patients423
Paid by Medicare$143,458
Procedure codes13
Dr. Bitter's Medicare services by type, 2023 to 2024
- 2023
- 2024
- Office and hospital visits
- 2023: 9512024: 9874%
- Other services
- 2023: 02024: 370
- Tests and treatments
- 2023: 3212024: 22331%
- Lab and pathology
- 2023: 312024: 0100%
Where Dr. Bitter's Medicare services took place, 2024
- In an office99663%
- In a facility58437%
Dr. Bitter compared with the Ohio median for nephrologists, 2024
- Dr. Bitter
- Ohio median
- Medicare services
- 1,580vs 7902.0 times
- Medicare patients
- 423vs 30738% above
- Part D claims
- 2,568vs 7673.3 times
Medians across 400 nephrologists in Ohio with Dmand AI profiles that report each measure.
Dr. Bitter'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. Joshua Edwin Bitter treated 423 Medicare patients in 2024, average age 75
CMS counts 423 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Bitter in 2024. The largest group is 75 to 84, with 156 patients. 75% of them have chronic kidney disease, and 75% have high blood pressure. 15% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 2.92, 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. Bitter's median patient age at 74, with 49% women.
Medicare patients, 2024423
Average age75
Average risk score2.92
Also on Medicaid15%
Dr. Bitter's Medicare patients by age, 2024
Dr. Bitter's Medicare patients by sex, 2024
- Women21350%
- Men21050%
Chronic conditions among Dr. Bitter's Medicare patients, 2024
- Chronic kidney disease75%
- High blood pressure75%
- High cholesterol75%
- Diabetes56%
- Arthritis52%
- Ischemic heart disease47%
- Heart failure43%
- Atrial fibrillation33%
Share of Medicare patients with each condition. A patient can have several.
Dr. Bitter's patients across all payers
Dmand AI patient panel data covers Medicare, Medicaid and commercial patients.
Patient panel by age, all payers
Median age 74
Patient panel by sex, all payers
- Women49%
- Men49%
Sources: Dmand AI Patient Panel Data; and Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS), 2024 data
Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter wrote 2,923 Medicare Part D claims in 2024
In 2024, Dr. Bitter wrote 2,923 Medicare Part D claims for 458 patients. 92% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 2,568 of them, across 38 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $261,316 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 2,554 claims across 38 drugs.
Part D claims, 20242,923
Drugs named by CMS38
Total drug cost$261,316
Part D patients458
Dr. Bitter's Part D claims by kind of drug, 2024
- Generic2,690 claims92%
- Brand-name233 claims8%
Dr. Bitter'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. Bitter's Part D claims, 2024
- Opioids1%16 of 2,923 claims
- Antibiotics3%83 of 2,923 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: 2,5542024: 2,5681%
Drugs named by CMS: 38 in 2024, 38 in 2023.
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. Joshua Edwin Bitter offers telehealth to Medicare patients
Dr. Bitter accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment. CMS lists Dr. Bitter as offering telehealth.
- Accepts Medicare assignment
- Yes
- Offers telehealth
- Yes
Source: Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS)
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Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter has 1 publication on record
Dmand AI links 1 paper to Dr. Bitter in 2015. Dr. Bitter's most frequent co-authors are Sarah Nicole Dials, MD and Lee A. Hebert, MD.
Papers1
Dr. Bitter's most frequent co-authors
Recent publications by Dr. Bitter
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Sources: PubMed (National Library of Medicine); and Dmand AI Research Linkage
Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter received $1,551 in industry payments from 2016 to 2025
CMS Open Payments shows 76 general payments to Dr. Bitter from 23 drug and device companies from 2016 to 2025. Food and beverage make up the largest share, 93% of the total. Amgen Inc. paid the most, $464.
General payments to Dr. Bitter by program year, 2016 to 2025
General payments to Dr. Bitter by kind, 2016 to 2025
$1.6Kin total
- Food and beverage$1,44093%
- Education$1107%
Companies that paid Dr. Bitter the most, 2016 to 2025
Share is of all general payments to this clinician.
Source: Open Payments (CMS), 2025 data, released July 7, 2026
Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter graduated from Ohio Medical University
Dr. Bitter graduated from Ohio Medical University in 2005.
- Medical school
Source: Dmand AI Professional Profile Data
Sources for Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter's profile data
| Data on this page | Source |
|---|---|
| NPI, name, sex, specialty and licenses | NPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Professional Profile Data |
| Practice locations and phone | NPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Practice Data |
| Primary practice, affiliations and health system | NPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Practice DataDmand AI Affiliation Data |
| Medicare services and procedure codes | Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider and Service (CMS) (opens in a new tab) |
| State medians for the same specialty | Dmand AI Peer Benchmarks |
| Medicare patients and the all-payer patient panel | Dmand AI Patient Panel DataMedicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS) (opens in a new tab) |
| Part D prescribing | Medicare 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 percentiles | Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS) (opens in a new tab) |
| Publications, topics and co-authors | PubMed (National Library of Medicine) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Research Linkage |
| Industry payments | Open Payments (CMS) (opens in a new tab) |
| Training, board certification and memberships | Dmand AI Professional Profile Data |
| EHR at each practice site | Dmand AI Technology Install Data |
| Similar physicians | Dmand AI Affiliation Data |
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What is Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter's NPI number?
Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter's NPI number is 1619093655. It was assigned on March 21, 2007, and it is active in the NPI Registry.
What kind of doctor is Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter?
Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter is a nephrologist in Westerville, Ohio. The primary specialty in the NPI Registry is Nephrology Physician (taxonomy code 207RN0300X).
Where does Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter practice?
Dr. Bitter practices at 595 Copeland Mill Rd, Westerville, OH 43081. Dr. Bitter's primary practice is Kidney Specialists in Westerville, Ohio. Dmand AI also links Dr. Bitter to 4 hospitals, 4 dialysis centers and 1 group practice or clinic.
What is Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter's office phone number?
The practice phone on file for Dr. Bitter is (614) 823-8500.
What is Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter's medical license number?
Dr. Bitter holds Ohio license 34.009370.
Which hospitals is Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter affiliated with?
Dr. Bitter is affiliated with Mount Carmel St. Ann's. Dmand AI links Dr. Bitter to 4 more hospitals.
What medical group is Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter part of?
Dr. Bitter is linked to Kidney Specialists.
Does Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter accept Medicare?
Yes. CMS data shows Dr. Bitter billed Medicare for 1,580 services in 2024, and Dr. Bitter accepts Medicare assignment.
Does Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter offer telehealth?
Yes. The CMS Doctors and Clinicians file lists Dr. Bitter as offering telehealth services.
How many Medicare patients does Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter see?
CMS counts 423 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Bitter in 2024, with an average age of 75.
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What services does Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter bill to Medicare?
In 2024, Dr. Bitter's most billed Medicare services were medicare service (G2211), hospital inpatient care (99233) and office visit, established patient (99214).
Where did Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter go to medical school?
Dr. Bitter graduated from Ohio Medical University in 2005.
What drugs does Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter prescribe most?
In 2024 Medicare Part D data, Dr. Bitter's most prescribed drugs by claims were Allopurinol, Amlodipine Besylate and Lisinopril.
Has Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter received payments from drug or device companies?
CMS Open Payments shows $1,551 in general payments to Dr. Bitter from 23 companies from 2016 to 2025. The largest total came from Amgen Inc.
How long has Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter been practicing?
Dr. Bitter graduated from medical school in 2005, 21 years ago.
Does Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter do research?
Dmand AI links 1 publication to Dr. Bitter.
Who does Dr. Joshua Edwin Bitter publish with?
Dr. Bitter's most frequent co-authors are Sarah Nicole Dials, MD (1 shared paper) and Lee A. Hebert, MD (1 shared paper).
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