Dr. Jagannath Heremagalur Saikumar, MD

Dr. Saikumar practices at PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center in Longview, Washington, part of PeaceHealth.

Dr. Saikumar's NPI, 1295999498, was assigned on July 16, 2008. Dr. Saikumar holds Washington license MD60801533.

Dr. Saikumar's primary practice is PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center, at 1615 Delaware Street, Longview, WA 98632 in Cowlitz County. The practice phone is (360) 414-2000.

Dr. Saikumar's primary practice is PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center in Longview, Washington, part of PeaceHealth. Dr. Saikumar is also affiliated with Columbia Memorial Hospital. The medical group on file is PeaceHealth Medical Group. Dmand AI also links Dr. Saikumar to 1 more hospital, 3 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. Saikumar practices, 6 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.

Nephrology is Dr. Saikumar's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 207RN0300X. Dmand AI has Dr. Saikumar's licenses on file in 2 states: Washington and Tennessee.

CMS data shows 833 Medicare services from Dr. Saikumar across 9 procedure codes in 2024, for 229 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $95,096 for them.

CMS counts 229 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Saikumar in 2024. The largest group is 75 to 84, with 92 patients. 75% of them have chronic kidney disease, and 75% have high blood pressure. 23% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 3.74, 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. Saikumar's median patient age at 75, with 51% women.

In 2024, Dr. Saikumar wrote 1,288 Medicare Part D claims for 285 patients. 91% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 1,030 of them, across 26 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $67,825 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 907 claims across 24 drugs.

Dr. Saikumar accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment. CMS lists Dr. Saikumar as offering telehealth.

Dmand AI links 8 papers to Dr. Saikumar, published from 2010 to 2017. 2017 was the busiest year, with 2. The most frequent topics are Kidney Failure, Chronic. Dr. Saikumar has published most often in Am J Med Sci. Dr. Saikumar's most frequent co-authors are Csaba Pal Kovesdy, MD, Rajesh Kumar Gupta, MD and Lindsay Marie Snook, MD.

CMS Open Payments shows 34 general payments to Dr. Saikumar from 12 drug and device companies from 2016 to 2023. Speaker and faculty fees make up the largest share, 50% of the total. Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. paid the most, $987.