Nicolae Leca
- Medicare services, 2024
- 669
- Medicare patients, 2024
- 161
- Part D claims, 2024
- 1,305
- Publications
- 52
- Clinical trials
- 2
- Practice address
- 1959 NE Pacific St Box 356151, Seattle, WA 98195
- Practice phone
- Call (206) 598-3300
- Professional email
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- Personal email
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- Mobile number
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Primary practice
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Nicolae Leca is a nephrologist in Seattle, Washington
Nicolae Leca practices at UW Medical Center - Montlake in Seattle, Washington, part of University of Washington.
Nicolae Leca's NPI, 1407931215, was assigned on October 27, 2006. Nicolae Leca holds Washington license MD00045108.
- NPI
- 1407931215NPI Registry (opens in a new tab)
- Medicare PAC ID
- 1951338755
- NPI enumeration date
- October 27, 2006
- NPI status
- Active
- Accepts Medicare assignment
- Yes
- Offers telehealth
- Yes
- Practice phone
- (206) 598-3300
- Professional email
- Get email
- Personal email
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- Mobile number
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- Sex
- Male
- Estimated age
- 56
- Medical school graduation
- 1996
Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; Dmand AI Affiliation Data; and Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS)
Nicolae Leca practices at UW Medical Center - Montlake in Seattle, Washington
Nicolae Leca's primary practice is UW Medical Center - Montlake, at 1959 NE Pacific St Box 356151, Seattle, WA 98195 in King County. The practice phone is (206) 598-3300.
- UW Medical Center - Montlake1959 NE Pacific St Box 356151, Seattle, WA 98195 · King CountyPhone(206) 598-3300
Source: Dmand AI Affiliation Data
Nicolae Leca is affiliated with 8 sites of care and 1 medical group
Nicolae Leca's primary practice is UW Medical Center - Montlake in Seattle, Washington, part of University of Washington. Nicolae Leca is also affiliated with MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital. The medical group on file is UW Physicians. Dmand AI also links Nicolae Leca to 4 more hospitals, 1 group practice or clinic and 1 hospital outpatient department, each named with a free account.
Sources: Dmand AI Affiliation Data; and Dmand AI Org Hierarchy Data
Dmand AI tracks the EHR system at Nicolae Leca's practice
Dmand AI tracks the electronic health record (EHR) system at each site where Nicolae Leca practices, 8 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.
| Site | EHR vendor and product |
|---|---|
| UW Medical Center - Montlake | Available with a free account |
| +7 more affiliated sites | Available with a free account |
Source: Dmand AI Technology Install Data
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Nicolae Leca is one of 225 nephrologists in Washington
Nephrology is Nicolae Leca's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 207RN0300X. Nicolae Leca is licensed in Washington.
Specialties and state licenses
- Nephrology, WashingtonPrimary
Nephrologists near Nicolae Leca
Counts of nephrologists with a Dmand AI profile, by place and practice. Each opens the list.
Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; and Dmand AI Peer Benchmarks
Nicolae Leca billed Medicare for 669 services in 2024
CMS data shows 669 Medicare services from Nicolae Leca across 6 procedure codes in 2024, for 161 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $53,038 for them. Every service was in a facility, such as a hospital, rather than an office.
Nicolae Leca's Medicare services by type, 2023 to 2024
- 2023
- 2024
- Office and hospital visits
- 2023: 5702024: 45321%
- Other services
- 2023: 02024: 216
Nicolae Leca compared with the Washington median for nephrologists, 2024
- Nicolae Leca
- Washington median
- Medicare services
- 669vs 703Close to median
- Medicare patients
- 161vs 21023% below
- Part D claims
- 1,119vs 67666% above
Medians across 217 nephrologists in Washington with Dmand AI profiles that report each measure.
Nicolae Leca'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
Nicolae Leca treated 161 Medicare patients in 2024, average age 61
CMS counts 161 Medicare patients who saw Nicolae Leca in 2024. The largest group is under 65, with 72 patients. 75% of them have chronic kidney disease, and 75% have high blood pressure. 25% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 5.04, where 1.00 is the Medicare average, so they are sicker than most Medicare patients.
Across all payers, Dmand AI patient panel data puts Nicolae Leca's median patient age at 54, with 49% women.
Nicolae Leca's Medicare patients by age, 2024
CMS leaves out age groups with fewer than 11 patients.
Nicolae Leca's Medicare patients by sex, 2024
- Women6037%
- Men10163%
Chronic conditions among Nicolae Leca's Medicare patients, 2024
- Chronic kidney disease75%
- High blood pressure75%
- High cholesterol73%
- Diabetes61%
- Heart failure28%
- Ischemic heart disease27%
- Mood disorders25%
- Depression24%
Share of Medicare patients with each condition. A patient can have several.
Nicolae Leca's patients across all payers
Dmand AI patient panel data covers Medicare, Medicaid and commercial patients.
Patient panel by age, all payers
Median age 54
Patient panel by sex, all payers
- Women49%
- Men51%
Sources: Dmand AI Patient Panel Data; and Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS), 2024 data
Nicolae Leca wrote 1,305 Medicare Part D claims in 2024
In 2024, Nicolae Leca wrote 1,305 Medicare Part D claims for 97 patients. 93% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 1,119 of them, across 28 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $89,213 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 869 claims across 25 drugs.
Nicolae Leca's Part D claims by kind of drug, 2024
- Generic1,219 claims93%
- Brand-name63 claims5%
- Other23 claims2%
Nicolae Leca'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 Nicolae Leca's Part D claims, 2024
- Antibiotics8%103 of 1,305 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: 8692024: 1,11929%
Drugs named by CMS: 28 in 2024, 25 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
Nicolae Leca scored 94 out of 100 in Medicare's MIPS program for 2024
CMS publishes a Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) score of 94 out of 100 for Nicolae Leca for performance year 2024, reported through an alternative payment model (APM). Nicolae Leca accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment. CMS lists Nicolae Leca as offering telehealth.
- Accepts Medicare assignment
- Yes
- Offers telehealth
- Yes
Nicolae Leca's MIPS scores, performance year 2024
- 94of 100Final score
- 74.6of 100Quality
- 100of 100Promoting Interoperability
- 40of 100Improvement Activities
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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Nicolae Leca has 52 publications on record
Dmand AI links 52 papers to Nicolae Leca, published from 2011 to 2025. 2023 was the busiest year, with 8. The most frequent topics are Kidney Transplantation, Graft Survival and Graft Rejection. Nicolae Leca has published most often in Transplant Proc. Nicolae Leca's most frequent co-authors are Lena Sibulesky, MD, James D. Perkins and Ramasamy Bakthavatsalam.
Nicolae Leca's papers by year, 2013 to 2025
Topics Nicolae Leca writes about most
- Kidney Transplantation
- Graft Survival
- Graft Rejection
- Tissue Donors
- Kidney
- Immunosuppressive Agents
- Tissue and Organ Procurement
- Biopsy
Nicolae Leca's most frequent co-authors
- Lena Sibulesky, MD20 shared papers
- James D. Perkins16 shared papers
- Ramasamy Bakthavatsalam15 shared papers
Recent publications by Nicolae Leca
Clin J Am Soc Nephrol
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Sources: PubMed (National Library of Medicine); and Dmand AI Research Linkage
Nicolae Leca has worked on 2 clinical trials
Dmand AI links Nicolae Leca to 2 clinical trials. 1 is still active or recruiting.
Investigators on the most trials with Nicolae Leca
- Enver Akalin, MD2 shared trials
- Bernard V. Fischbach, MD2 shared trials
- Eric Donald Langewisch, MD2 shared trials
Recent clinical trials with Nicolae Leca
Sources: Dmand AI Research Linkage; and ClinicalTrials.gov (National Library of Medicine)
Nicolae Leca received $107,686 in industry payments from 2016 to 2025
CMS Open Payments shows 128 general payments to Nicolae Leca from 10 drug and device companies from 2016 to 2025. Consulting fees make up the largest share, 78% of the total. Travere Therapeutics, Inc. paid the most, $22,421.
General payments to Nicolae Leca by program year, 2016 to 2025
General payments to Nicolae Leca by kind, 2016 to 2025
- Consulting fees$84,15278%
- Travel and lodging$12,58612%
- Honoraria$6,2106%
- Food and beverage$4,5314%
- Education$2070%
Companies that paid Nicolae Leca the most, 2016 to 2025
Share is of all general payments to this clinician.
Source: Open Payments (CMS), 2025 data, released July 7, 2026
Sources for Nicolae Leca'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 | Dmand AI Affiliation Data |
| Primary practice, affiliations and health system | Dmand AI Affiliation DataDmand AI Org Hierarchy 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)Clinician Public Reporting: Overall MIPS Performance (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 |
| Clinical trials and co-investigators | Dmand AI Research LinkageClinicalTrials.gov (National Library of Medicine) (opens in a new tab) |
| Industry payments | Open Payments (CMS) (opens in a new tab) |
| EHR at each practice site | Dmand AI Technology Install Data |
| Similar physicians | Dmand AI Affiliation Data |
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What is Nicolae Leca's NPI number?
Nicolae Leca's NPI number is 1407931215. It was assigned on October 27, 2006, and it is active in the NPI Registry.
What does Nicolae Leca specialize in?
Nicolae Leca is a nephrologist in Seattle, Washington. The primary specialty in the NPI Registry is Nephrology Physician (taxonomy code 207RN0300X).
Where does Nicolae Leca practice?
Nicolae Leca practices at 1959 NE Pacific St Box 356151, Seattle, WA 98195. Nicolae Leca's primary practice is UW Medical Center - Montlake in Seattle, Washington, part of University of Washington. Dmand AI also links Nicolae Leca to 4 hospitals, 1 group practice or clinic and 1 hospital outpatient department.
What is Nicolae Leca's office phone number?
The practice phone on file for Nicolae Leca is (206) 598-3300.
What is Nicolae Leca's medical license number?
Nicolae Leca holds Washington license MD00045108.
Which hospitals is Nicolae Leca affiliated with?
Nicolae Leca practices at UW Medical Center - Montlake in Seattle, Washington. Nicolae Leca is also affiliated with MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital. Dmand AI links Nicolae Leca to 4 more hospitals.
What medical group is Nicolae Leca part of?
Nicolae Leca is linked to UW Physicians.
Does Nicolae Leca accept Medicare?
Yes. CMS data shows Nicolae Leca billed Medicare for 669 services in 2024, and Nicolae Leca accepts Medicare assignment.
Does Nicolae Leca offer telehealth?
Yes. The CMS Doctors and Clinicians file lists Nicolae Leca as offering telehealth services.
What is Nicolae Leca's MIPS score?
Nicolae Leca's MIPS final score for performance year 2024 is 94 out of 100, reported through an alternative payment model (APM).
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How many Medicare patients does Nicolae Leca see?
CMS counts 161 Medicare patients who saw Nicolae Leca in 2024, with an average age of 61.
What services does Nicolae Leca bill to Medicare?
In 2024, Nicolae Leca's most billed Medicare services were office visit, established patient (99215), medicare service (G2211) and hospital inpatient care (99233).
What drugs does Nicolae Leca prescribe most?
In 2024 Medicare Part D data, Nicolae Leca's most prescribed drugs by claims were Prednisone, Losartan Potassium and Amlodipine Besylate.
Has Nicolae Leca received payments from drug or device companies?
CMS Open Payments shows $107,686 in general payments to Nicolae Leca from 10 companies from 2016 to 2025. The largest total came from Travere Therapeutics, Inc.
How long has Nicolae Leca been practicing?
Nicolae Leca graduated from medical school in 1996, 30 years ago.
Does Nicolae Leca do research?
Dmand AI links 52 publications to Nicolae Leca, published from 2011 to 2025. Nicolae Leca has worked on 2 clinical trials.
Who does Nicolae Leca publish with?
Nicolae Leca's most frequent co-authors are Lena Sibulesky, MD (20 shared papers), James D. Perkins (16 shared papers) and Ramasamy Bakthavatsalam (15 shared papers).
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