Edgar Castellanos, M.D appears in the CMS NPPES registry as an Emergency Medicine Physician provider holding M.D credentials at 275 W LAUREL DR STE A, Salinas, CA, 93906, with a listed phone of (831) 755-1600. NPI 1619089943 was issued on 08/31/2006.

Medicare Part D records for calendar year 2023 show 1,783 prescription claims written by this provider, covering 111 Medicare beneficiaries and totaling roughly $173K in drug spend, with an opioid prescribing rate of 11.0%. On the CMS Merit-based Incentive Payment System, this provider earned a Final Score of 26.2/100 for the 2023 performance year (Quality 0, Cost 87.2), compared with the national average of 83.1.

Emergency Medicine Physician is a high-volume specialty nationwide, with 64,463 enrolled providers across 56 states and an average of 352 Part D claims per prescriber, so the context for interpreting these metrics differs meaningfully from a primary-care baseline.

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