Douglas James Schwartz, M.D.
Specialist · Phoenix, AZ
Douglas James Schwartz, M.D. is a specialist with a practice address in Phoenix, Arizona, and NPI 1215929971, issued on Aug 18, 2005. Check the license (Arizona 16736, as entered in NPPES) with the Arizona board that licenses this profession; the Medicare figures below come from public CMS files.
- Name
- Douglas James Schwartz
- Credential
- M.D.
- Primary taxonomy
- Specialist 174400000X
- License number
- 16736 AZ
Self-reported in NPPES; status is on the state search - Practice location
- 1300 N 12TH St, Phoenix, AZ 85006
- Phone
- (602) 229-1900
- Enumerated
- Aug 18, 2005
- Record last updated
- Feb 17, 2017 (not updated in 9 years: call before relying on the address or phone)
- Fax
- (602) 257-0810
- Medicare enrollment
- Enrolled (PECOS I20051005001263); accepts Medicare assignment
- Medical or professional school
- University Of Maryland School Of Medicine, 1985
- Telehealth
- Offers telehealth (CMS)
- Entity
- Type 1 · individual
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Verify Douglas James Schwartz in five checks
- 1IdentityNPI record in CMS NPPESNPI lookupConfirmed in NPPES
- 2LicenseActive license and public ordersWhich Arizona board licenses this profession
Search for license 16736Check the board - 3Other statesLicenses and actions elsewhereDocInfo (FSMB)Not checked
- 4ExclusionsMedicare and Medicaid bansHHS-OIG exclusion listNot checked
- 5CertificationBoard certificationABMS AOA NCCPA AANPNot checked
28% fewer Medicare Part D claims than the average specialist in 2024
991 Medicare Part D claims for 294 beneficiaries, against an average of 1,380 among the 8,233 providers of this specialty who prescribed in Part D. Brand-name drugs were 5% of claims.
Most prescribed
- Pantoprazole Sodium541 claims
- Omeprazole92 claims
- Famotidine61 claims
- Colestipol Hcl48 claims
- Mesalamine35 claims
- Budesonide Dr32 claims
Source: CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers by Provider and Drug, 2024 (data.cms.gov). Part D covers prescriptions for Medicare patients only; drugs with fewer than 11 claims are not published.
No measured MIPS final score for 2023
CMS assigned the neutral MIPS final score of 75 without scoring Quality, Cost, Promoting Interoperability or Improvement Activities. It is an administrative threshold, so PlainDoctor does not compare it with measured clinicians.
Source: CMS Quality Payment Program, MIPS performance year 2023, group reporting; category weights for 2023 (qpp.cms.gov).
Industry payments in 2024: $74.99
3 payments; by number, the most common kind was food and beverage; the largest payer was Medtronic, Inc. The 5,844 providers of this specialty with any payment received $4,760.79 on average. Payments are reported by manufacturers, not by the provider, and are not a sign of wrongdoing.
Source: CMS Open Payments, program year 2024 (openpaymentsdata.cms.gov); average among providers of this specialty with at least one payment.
Bills Medicare through one group practice
- Arizona Digestive Health PCScottsdale, AZ
Source: CMS Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (the group practices a clinician bills Medicare through) (data.cms.gov).
Douglas James Schwartz among 747 specialist records in Arizona
Douglas James Schwartz, M.D. is one of 747 specialist records with a practice address in Arizona. 25% of them appear in a Medicare file (Part D prescribing, MIPS, Open Payments or Medicare group billing); this one does. Its NPI, issued in 2005, is newer than 0% of them.
- NPI issued2005 · 0% of these records are older, 86% newer
- In a Medicare fileYes · 25% of these records are
- In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians fileYes · 16% of these records are
- Graduated1985 · median 1992 among the 117 with a school on file
- Record last updated2017 · 83% of these records were not updated in five years or more
Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026, every record with primary taxonomy 174400000X and a Arizona practice address; Medicare files: CMS Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024, Doctors and Clinicians (data.cms.gov).
Specialist providers in Arizona
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Common questions
What is Douglas James Schwartz, M.D.'s NPI number?
Douglas James Schwartz, M.D.'s National Provider Identifier (NPI) is 1215929971, issued on Aug 18, 2005. An NPI identifies a provider in billing; it is not a license.
Where is Douglas James Schwartz, M.D. located?
The NPPES record lists a practice address at 1300 N 12TH St, Phoenix, AZ, 85006. Phone: (602) 229-1900. Providers update this record themselves, so call before visiting.
How can I verify Douglas James Schwartz, M.D.'s license?
NPPES lists Arizona license number 16736, as entered by the provider. Search the Arizona board that licenses this profession; the NPPES record confirms identity only.
How much does Douglas James Schwartz, M.D. prescribe under Medicare Part D?
In 2024, Douglas James Schwartz, M.D. had 991 Medicare Part D claims for 294 beneficiaries; the average among specialist prescribers was 1,380. Part D covers Medicare prescriptions only.
What is Douglas James Schwartz, M.D.'s MIPS final score?
CMS assigned the neutral MIPS final score of 75 for 2023 without scoring any category, so it is not a measured result.
Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov); NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy. Medicare files from data.cms.gov. An NPI identifies who bills; it is not a license.
Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of Aug 9, 2026.