Dr. Umar Farooq, MD

Dr. Farooq practices at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania, part of Penn State.

Dr. Farooq's NPI, 1972796621, was assigned on August 24, 2007. Dr. Farooq holds Pennsylvania license MD437389.

Dr. Farooq's primary practice is Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, at 500 University Drive, Hershey, PA 17033 in Dauphin County. The practice phone is (717) 531-8521.

Dr. Farooq's primary practice is Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania, part of Penn State. The medical group on file is Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Dmand AI also links Dr. Farooq to 3 more dialysis centers and 1 medical group, each named with a free account.

Dmand AI tracks the electronic health record (EHR) system at each site where Dr. Farooq practices, 4 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.

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

CMS data shows 325 Medicare services from Dr. Farooq across 9 procedure codes in 2024, for 151 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $38,804 for them.

CMS counts 151 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Farooq in 2024. The largest group is 65 to 74, with 60 patients. 75% of them have chronic kidney disease, and 75% have high blood pressure. 21% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 4.64, 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. Farooq's median patient age at 70, with 42% women.

In 2024, Dr. Farooq wrote 701 Medicare Part D claims for 107 patients. 90% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 525 of them, across 18 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $155,995 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 677 claims across 24 drugs.

CMS publishes a Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) score of 79 out of 100 for Dr. Farooq for performance year 2024, reported as part of a group. Dr. Farooq accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment.

Dmand AI links 6 papers to Dr. Farooq, published from 2014 to 2025. 2025 was the busiest year, with 2. Dr. Farooq has published most often in Clin Case Rep. Dr. Farooq's most frequent co-authors are Nasrollah Ghahramani, MD, Thomas Edward Clancy, MD and Umar Farooq, MD.

CMS Open Payments shows 106 general payments to Dr. Farooq from 17 drug and device companies from 2016 to 2025. Speaker and faculty fees make up the largest share, 73% of the total. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. paid the most, $87,339.