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2026 NPPES data Adult Health Nurse Practitioner NPI 1659689941 ARNP, DNP
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April Watkins, ARNP, DNP

Adult Health Nurse Practitioner in Seattle, Washington.

This profile is drawn from the federal National Provider Identifier Registry (CMS NPPES), which lists more than 7 million U.S. healthcare providers - including 29,519 in Adult Health Nurse Practitioner, and covers specialty classification, practice address, and Medicare Part D prescribing data when reported. According to CMS, every field reflects the provider's official federal registration, see our methodology.

Federal data, no proprietary rating. We show these CMS records as-is - no composite score, no star rating, no editorial opinion layered on top.
Prescribing volume
562
Medicare Part D claims · 169 beneficiaries · Adult Health Nurse Practitioner avg: 1K
Generic prescribing
46%
generic claims · 54% brand-name · higher generic rates reduce patient out-of-pocket costs
MIPS score
72.5/100
▼ 11 pts below national avg 83.5 · Mid-tier
Industry payments
$63.4K
76 payments · CMS Open Payments (Sunshine Act)
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What the federal data shows

April Watkins, ARNP, DNP reported a CMS MIPS final score of 72.5/100 - below the 83.5 national average - and filed 562 Medicare Part D claims in 2023.

72.5/100
MIPS score · -11 vs avg
562
Part D claims, 2023
46%
generic prescribing
$63.4K
industry payments (Sunshine Act)

Every figure on this page comes straight from federal CMS records (NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments) - no proprietary rating or editorial opinion is applied.

Federal trust snapshot

What official records show about April Watkins, ARNP, DNP

Federal records show an active NPI with both Medicare prescribing volume and a measured CMS quality score — objective registry data, not patient reviews.

  • Verified

    NPI registry status

    Active listing in the CMS National Provider Identifier Registry (NPI 1659689941), first enumerated 09/20/2010.

    Source: CMS NPPES

  • Reported

    Medicare Part D participation

    Filed 562 Medicare Part D prescription claims in the 2023 CMS public use file — indicates active Medicare prescribing participation.

    Source: CMS Part D Prescriber PUF

  • Reported

    CMS quality reporting (MIPS)

    Reported a CMS MIPS final score of 72.5/100 in the Quality Payment Program — a federal quality measure, not a patient review.

    Source: CMS Quality Payment Program

  • Reported

    Hospital affiliations

    2 CMS Care Compare hospital affiliations on record — practice footprint from the Doctors and Clinicians file.

    Source: CMS Care Compare

  • Reported

    Industry payment transparency

    $63.4K in reported industry payments (76 transfers) in 2024 under the federal Sunshine Act — disclosed transfers of value, not a quality rating.

    Source: CMS Open Payments

  • State context

    State board disciplinary context

    Washington statewide board action statistics are published annually — these figures describe aggregate state activity, not April Watkins, ARNP, DNP's individual license status. Verify directly with the state medical board.

    Source: WMC annual report 2023

  • Not in federal data

    Individual sanction lookup

    PlainDoctor does not publish per-provider disciplinary determinations. Confirm current license and any individual actions through the state medical board or FSMB verification service.

    Source: State medical board / FSMB

This trust snapshot summarizes only what appears in federal CMS/NPPES public records. It is not a composite score, star rating, patient review, or clinical recommendation. PlainDoctor never fabricates reviews or AggregateRating schema.

CMS NPPES provider registry desk

NPI 1659689941 · Adult Health Nurse Practitioner

NPI-10 · ENUM-MID · TAX-MID · MIPS-LOW · RX-LIGHT · BOOK-THIN · PHOTO-FINISH

  • NPI-10 1659689941
  • ENUM-MID 2010
  • TAX-MID 30K Adult Health
  • MIPS-LOW 72.5/100
  • RX-LIGHT 562
  • BOOK-THIN 449 in Washington
  • PHOTO-FINISH Elise Carper · ±0.0

MIPS final-score neighbourhood

Same-specialty nationwide peers by CMS final score, not geographic proximity

MIPS pts

What this shows Nearest measured MIPS peers for this NUCC specialty (2023 performance year).

Source CMS Quality Payment Program (MIPS) As of 2023

April Watkins, ARNP, DNP's MIPS score vs every measured U.S. clinician

CMS Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) final score, 2023, the federal quality measure. Clinicians whose score CMS assigned without scoring any category are excluded.

73 ≥ 10th percentile 10% of 454,083 measured providers are in lower value bands

0–10: 8,684 measured providers (2%). Below this entry. 10–20: 3,008 measured providers (1%). Below this entry. 20–30: 3,069 measured providers (1%). Below this entry. 30–40: 2,746 measured providers (1%). Below this entry. 40–50: 2,928 measured providers (1%). Below this entry. 50–60: 5,882 measured providers (1%). Below this entry. 60–70: 13,906 measured providers (3%). Below this entry. 70–80: 94,570 measured providers (21%). This entry sits in this band. 80–90: 129,887 measured providers (29%). Above this entry. 90+: 189,403 measured providers (42%). Above this entry. This provider 0 100 every measured MIPS clinician, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more measured providers. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

The percentile is a conservative whole-score-point band: it counts only measured clinicians in lower score bands. A CMS MIPS metric is not a recommendation or a clinical-quality rating by PlainDoctor. See methodology § corpus placement.

Source CMS Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) · 2023

Where April Watkins, ARNP, DNP sits

This provider among adult health nurse practitioner peers

Across the 4,201 adult health nurse practitioner providers who report both Medicare Part D prescribing and a MIPS quality score, April Watkins, ARNP, DNP writes more Part D claims than 58% of them and scores higher on MIPS quality than 7% - placing this provider in the high-volume, lower-quality quadrant. Volume reflects patient-panel size and specialty, not quality; the two axes are independent.

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claim volume, percentile in specialty: 25 · MIPS quality, percentile: 30Point, Part D claim volume, percentile in specialty: 45 · MIPS quality, percentile: 60Point, Part D claim volume, percentile in specialty: 5 · MIPS quality, percentile: 25Point, Part D claim volume, percentile in specialty: 17 · MIPS quality, percentile: 90Point, Part D claim volume, percentile in specialty: 22 · MIPS quality, percentile: 53Point, Part D claim volume, percentile in specialty: 8 · MIPS quality, percentile: 82Point, Part D claim volume, percentile in specialty: 43 · MIPS quality, percentile: 12Point, Part D claim volume, percentile in specialty: 98 · MIPS quality, percentile: 88Point, Part D claim volume, percentile in specialty: 40 · MIPS quality, percentile: 93Point, Part D claim volume, percentile in specialty: 37 · MIPS quality, percentile: 93Point, Part D claim volume, percentile in specialty: 50 · MIPS quality, percentile: 45Point, Part D claim volume, percentile in specialty: 15 · MIPS quality, percentile: 22Point, Part D claim volume, percentile in specialty: 27 · MIPS quality, percentile: 42Point, Part D claim volume, percentile in specialty: 70 · MIPS quality, percentile: 93Point, Part D claim volume, percentile in specialty: 88 · MIPS quality, percentile: 23Point, Part D claim volume, percentile in specialty: 68 · MIPS quality, percentile: 3April Watkins, ARNP, DNP, Part D claim volume, percentile in specialty: 58 · MIPS quality, percentile: 7
Part D claim volume vs MIPS quality, by specialty percentile

Each dot is one adult health nurse practitioner peer from a representative sample of 60; the gold marker is April Watkins, ARNP, DNP. Source: CMS Medicare Part D Prescriber data and the CMS Merit-based Incentive Payment System, 2023.

What does the federal data show about April Watkins, ARNP, DNP?

Below national average

NPI registry status

Active

Issued 09/20/2010

NPI 1659689941

Primary specialty

Adult Health Nurse Practitioner

Mid-sized

29,519 US NPIs in this specialty

Medicare Part D claims

562 53% vs specialty avg

2023 prescription claims

Specialty avg: 1,201

MIPS final score

72.5/100 11 pts vs avg

Mid-tier band

vs 83.5 national avg

Specialty distribution in Washington

How Adult Health Nurse Practitioner compares to other specialties among Washington providers

Washington providers
Mental Health Counselor8.6%Massage Therapist6.5%Counselor5.7%Behavior Technician4.5%Pharmacist4%Physical Therapist3.6%Adult Health Nurse Practitio…0.2%
Largest specialties in Washington (% of in-state providers)

Medicare quality performance, MIPS

April Watkins, ARNP, DNP's 2023 MIPS final score plotted against the Adult Health Nurse Practitioner national average

Below national average
MIPS Final Score
72.5/100
vs 83.5 national avg · 2023 performance year
0%100%National avg84%72.5%
MIPS final score (Adult Health Nurse Practitioner) - 72.5/100 vs national avg 83.5
How MIPS and board certification work

The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) scores providers 0–100 across four performance categories: Quality, Cost, Promoting Interoperability, and Improvement Activities, weighted under 42 CFR §414.1380. Reporting is voluntary for many small practices, so absence of a MIPS score is not a quality signal.

Board certification through an ABMS or AOA member board signals voluntary post-licensure examination plus continuous Maintenance of Certification cycles. Verify any individual provider's status through certificationmatters.org (ABMS) or osteopathic.org (AOA).

Practice Address

1600 E JEFFERSON ST STE 600
Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 215-4545

Provider Details

NPI 1659689941
Specialty Adult Health Nurse Practitioner
Credentials ARNP, DNP
Gender Female
NPI Issued 09/20/2010

CMS Quality Score (MIPS)

Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) scores from CMS, 2023 performance year.

72.5207
Final Score
Measured-score avg: 83.5
61.2794
Quality
47.1229
Cost
100
Promoting Interoperability

Reporting: Group practice

Hospital and facility affiliations

Facilities where April Watkins, ARNP, DNP bills Medicare from. Star ratings (1-5) are CMS Hospital Compare's "Hospital overall rating" - a composite of mortality, readmission, patient experience, safety, timely care, and efficient use of medical imaging measures. Source: CMS Care Compare.

King County Public Hospital District NO 2
Kirkland, WA
Swedish Health Services
Seattle, WA

Affiliations sourced from CMS Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File; hospital ratings from CMS Hospital General Information dataset (cross-referenced by facility name + state).

Industry payments received (2024) - CMS Open Payments transparency data

The federal Physician Payments Sunshine Act (part of the Affordable Care Act) requires drug and medical-device manufacturers + group purchasing organizations to publicly report payments and other transfers of value to physicians and teaching hospitals. The data below covers 2024 for April Watkins, ARNP, DNP. Source: openpaymentsdata.cms.gov.

Total received

$63.4K

Largest payer

Novo Nordisk Inc

Most common payment type

Travel and Lodging

Industry payments are not necessarily indicators of bias, they include research funding, consulting fees for evidence-based work, royalties for inventions, food at conferences, and similar items. The disclosure exists for transparency. Read our methodology for how we interpret this data.

License & disciplinary context - Washington WMC 2023 annual report

Aggregate state board data only, NOT a determination of any individual provider's status. The figures below describe statewide disciplinary activity across all ~34K Washington medical licensees in 2023 - they are NOT specific to April Watkins, ARNP, DNP. To verify April Watkins, ARNP, DNP's current license status, search the WMC public license lookup directly, or check the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) verification service.

88
Total board actions, Washington 2023
Across 85 cases
2.59
Actions per 1,000 licensees
Washington statewide rate
probation
Most common action type
31 cases

WMC publishes annual disciplinary statistics as part of public-record reporting under each state's Administrative Procedure Act. See the full breakdown by action type and year on the Washington disciplinary trends page. Cross-checked against FSMB U.S. Medical Regulatory Trends.

Brand vs generic prescribing mix · Brand-heavy

April Watkins, ARNP, DNP - brand share 54.0%
Adult Health Nurse Practitioner average

54% brand-name claims vs 46% generic, on 562 2023 Medicare Part D claims.

The federal Medicare Part D Generic Dispensing Rate national benchmark sits near 90% generic / 10% brand for primary-care prescribers, per CMS Office of the Actuary 2024 estimates. Higher brand share is common in specialty prescribing where generic equivalents are not available.

Medicare Part D Prescribing Data

CMS Medicare Part D prescriber-level data for calendar year 2023.

562
Total Claims
$291K
Total Drug Cost
169
Medicare Beneficiaries

Prescribing Breakdown

30-Day Fills
882
Total Day Supply
25,820
Brand vs Generic
54% brand / 46% generic
Brand Drug Cost
$280K
Generic Drug Cost
$11K

Patient Demographics

Average Patient Age
73.9 years
Avg HCC Risk Score
1.37
Gender Split
53% female / 47% male

Top Prescribed Drugs (Medicare Part D)

Top drugs by claim count for calendar year 2023. Based on Medicare Part D data only.

What April Watkins, ARNP, DNP prescribes most

Top Medicare Part D drugs by claim count, 2023

claims
Source CMS Medicare Part D Prescriber Public Use File As of 2023
Drug Claims
Eliquis
Apixaban
147
Ozempic
Semaglutide
124
Amiodarone Hcl
 37
Dofetilide
 36
Flecainide Acetate
 35
Metoprolol Succinate
 33
Metoprolol Tartrate
 29
Xarelto
Rivaroxaban
22
Multaq
Dronedarone Hcl
11

* Counts below 11 are suppressed by CMS for patient privacy. Generic names shown where available from CMS Part D data.

More Adult Health Nurse Practitioner in WA → All providers in Washington → Compare specialties →

Adult Health Nurse Practitioner Overview

How April Watkins, ARNP, DNP fits within the Adult Health Nurse Practitioner landscape nationally.

29,519
Adult Health Nurse Practitioner Providers in US
55
States with Adult Health Nurse Practitioner
1,201
Avg Claims per Provider

April Watkins, ARNP, DNP's 562 claims are below the specialty average of 1,201.

Nationwide Adult Health Nurse Practitioner peers with similar MIPS or enrollment year

Two federal-record peer sets for Watkins, both outside Washington so the neighborhoods are not geographic containment.

Similar MIPS final score

Nearest same-specialty clinicians by CMS MIPS final score (72.5 here).

Elise Carper 72.5 TX Nicole Griffis 72.5 TX Katherine Kaut 72.5 TX Julie Kestner 72.5 TX

Same NPPES enumeration year (2010)

Same-specialty clinicians who entered the NPI registry in the same calendar year, outside this state.

Alexandra Wilder Greensboro, NC Christine Honor Patchogue, NY Robert Hunt San Antonio, TX Allison Hildebrandt Minnetonka, MN

Nearby Adult Health Nurse Practitioner Providers in Washington

Other clinicians with the same primary specialty enrolled in Washington, drawn from the same CMS NPPES roster as Watkins.

One of 449 Adult Health Nurse Practitioner providers enrolled in Washington, 5 are shown here.

Dr. Sandra Abrahamson
ARNP
Seattle, WA
Olga Abramova
Bellevue, WA
Dr. Alvin Aceron
ARNP
Seattle, WA
Dr. Diane Acosta
ARNP
Tacoma, WA
Ream Adeeb
Seattle, WA

Compare Adult Health Nurse Practitioner nationally: see state-by-state distribution →

Frequently Asked Questions

What is April Watkins, ARNP, DNP's specialty? ▼
April Watkins, ARNP, DNP specializes in Adult Health Nurse Practitioner and practices in Seattle, Washington. Credentials: ARNP, DNP.
How much does April Watkins, ARNP, DNP prescribe under Medicare Part D? ▼
In 2023, April Watkins, ARNP, DNP wrote 562 Medicare Part D claims totaling $291K in drug costs for 169 beneficiaries.
What is April Watkins, ARNP, DNP's Medicare quality score? ▼
April Watkins, ARNP, DNP has a CMS MIPS Final Score of 72.5/100 (Quality: 61.3, Cost: 47.1). The average MIPS Final Score across the 454,083 clinicians with at least one published category score is 83.5; clinicians whose score CMS assigned without scoring any category are excluded from that average. Source: CMS Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) 2023.
Where is April Watkins, ARNP, DNP located? ▼
April Watkins, ARNP, DNP is located at 1600 E JEFFERSON ST STE 600, Seattle, WA, 98122. Phone: (206) 215-4545.
What is April Watkins, ARNP, DNP's NPI number? ▼
April Watkins, ARNP, DNP's National Provider Identifier (NPI) is 1659689941, issued on 09/20/2010.
Does April Watkins, ARNP, DNP prescribe more brand-name or generic drugs? ▼
April Watkins, ARNP, DNP's prescribing is 54% brand-name and 46% generic drugs by claim count, with $280K in brand drug costs.
How many Adult Health Nurse Practitioner providers are there in the US? ▼
There are 29,519 Adult Health Nurse Practitioner providers across 55 states in the US. The average Adult Health Nurse Practitioner provider writes 1,201 Medicare Part D claims per year.
What drugs does April Watkins, ARNP, DNP prescribe most often? ▼
Based on 2023 Medicare Part D data, April Watkins, ARNP, DNP's most frequently prescribed drugs include Eliquis, Ozempic, Amiodarone Hcl. This reflects Medicare Part D prescriptions only and does not include commercial insurance or other payer types.
Does April Watkins, ARNP, DNP accept Medicare? ▼
April Watkins, ARNP, DNP appears in CMS Medicare data with 562 Part D claims and 169 Medicare beneficiaries in 2023. Contact the provider's office directly to confirm current Medicare enrollment and accepted plans.
How can I verify April Watkins, ARNP, DNP's credentials? ▼
April Watkins, ARNP, DNP's NPI is 1659689941 with credentials ARNP, DNP. You can verify this through the NPPES NPI Registry, check state medical board records, and confirm board certification through the ABMS or AOA.

Data Sources

View source datasets and methodology notes
Provider Directory
CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), download.cms.gov/nppes, updated monthly. Contains NPI, specialty, credentials, and practice location.
Specialty Classification
NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy (nucc.org), the industry standard for classifying provider specialties in Medicare and Medicaid billing.
Prescribing Data
CMS Medicare Part D Prescriber Public Use File (2023). Includes claims, drug costs, beneficiaries, and opioid prescribing rates.
Quality Performance
CMS Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) - 2023 performance year.
Limitations
Provider data is self-reported to CMS. Prescribing data reflects Medicare Part D only and does not include commercial insurance, Medicaid, or cash prescriptions. Claims below 11 beneficiaries are suppressed by CMS for privacy.

See our complete data methodology for details on how we collect and process government data.

Data as of April 2026 (NPPES) / 2023 (Medicare Part D). Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

Disclaimer: Data from CMS NPPES and Medicare Part D. PlainDoctor does not rate or rank providers. Provider information is self-reported and may not be current. Always verify information directly with the provider. About · Methodology

Compiled from official public sources by the editorial process.

Every figure on PlainDoctor is rendered directly from the federal CMS NPPES registry, Medicare Part D, MIPS, and Open Payments records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.