Dr. Dipesh A. Pokharel, MD

Dr. Pokharel practices at Salmon Creek 1 Clinic in Vancouver, Washington.

Dr. Pokharel's NPI, 1346381001, was assigned on February 8, 2007. Dr. Pokharel graduated from University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in 2004. Dr. Pokharel holds Washington license MD60138672.

Dr. Pokharel's primary practice is Salmon Creek 1 Clinic, at 2525 Ne 139th Street, Vancouver, WA 98686. The practice phone is (360) 882-2778.

Dr. Pokharel's primary practice is Salmon Creek 1 Clinic in Vancouver, Washington. Dr. Pokharel is also affiliated with PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center. The medical group on file is Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center. Dmand AI also links Dr. Pokharel to 1 more hospital, 2 group practices and clinics, 2 medical groups and 1 ambulatory surgery center, each named with a free account. Dr. Pokharel's employer is on file too: a breast imaging center.

Dmand AI tracks the electronic health record (EHR) system at each site where Dr. Pokharel practices, 6 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.

Cardiovascular disease is Dr. Pokharel's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 207RC0000X. Dmand AI has Dr. Pokharel's licenses on file in 2 states: Washington and Oklahoma.

CMS data shows 2,366 Medicare services from Dr. Pokharel across 35 procedure codes in 2024, for 749 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $112,478 for them.

CMS counts 749 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Pokharel in 2024. The largest group is 75 to 84, with 298 patients. 75% of them have high blood pressure, and 75% have high cholesterol. 10% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 1.60, 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. Pokharel's median patient age at 74, with 49% women.

In 2024, Dr. Pokharel wrote 6,036 Medicare Part D claims for 698 patients. 90% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 5,803 of them, across 49 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $653,905 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 5,735 claims across 47 drugs.

Dr. Pokharel accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment. CMS counts 13 procedures of pacemaker insertion or repair by Dr. Pokharel, more than 65% of the clinicians it reports for that procedure.

Dmand AI links 1 paper to Dr. Pokharel in 2011. Dr. Pokharel's most frequent co-authors are George Wesley Madden, MD, Sunny S. Po, MD and Chittur A. Sivaram, MD.

CMS Open Payments shows 15 general payments to Dr. Pokharel from 5 drug and device companies from 2016 to 2024. Food and beverage make up the largest share, 100% of the total. Abbott Laboratories paid the most, $853.

Dr. Pokharel graduated from University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in 2004.