Ghassan Soultan Alkoutami, MD
Cardiovascular Disease Physician · Hickory, NC
Ghassan Soultan Alkoutami, MD is a cardiovascular disease physician with a practice address in Hickory, North Carolina, and NPI 1508867516, issued on Aug 2, 2005. Check the license (North Carolina 9300007, as entered in NPPES) on the North Carolina Medical Board; the Medicare figures below come from public CMS files.
- Name
- Ghassan Soultan Alkoutami
- Credential
- MD
- Primary taxonomy
- Cardiovascular Disease Physician 207RC0000X
- License number
- 9300007 NC
Self-reported in NPPES; status is on the state search - Practice location
- 2660 Tate Blvd SE, Hickory, NC 28602
- Phone
- (828) 216-0009
- Enumerated
- Aug 2, 2005
- Record last updated
- Oct 28, 2022
- Fax
- (828) 261-0109
- Medicaid ID
- 7910725 NC
- Medicare enrollment
- Enrolled (PECOS I20100128000474); accepts Medicare assignment
- Entity
- Type 1 · individual
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Also registered at 2660 Tate Blvd SE
A shared address usually means a shared clinic or building; it does not show who employs whom.
- Seth Call, PA-CPhysician Assistant1033183660
- Alicia Carroll, M.D.Specialist1457373763
- Ateet Kosaraju, M.D.Interventional Cardiology Physician1225482581
- Tina Lum, NPNurse Practitioner1588180806
- Kevin McMahon, PA-CMedical Physician Assistant1205809118
- Srinivas Mikkilineni, M.D.Interventional Cardiology Physician1558595108
Verify Ghassan Soultan Alkoutami in five checks
- 1IdentityNPI record in CMS NPPESNPI lookupConfirmed in NPPES
- 2LicenseActive license and public ordersNorth Carolina Medical Board
Search for license 9300007Check the board - 3Other statesLicenses and actions elsewhereDocInfo (FSMB)Not checked
- 4ExclusionsMedicare and Medicaid bansHHS-OIG exclusion listNot checked
- 5CertificationBoard certificationABMS AOA NCCPA AANPNot checked
3.5 times the Medicare Part D claims of the average cardiovascular disease physician in 2024
10,737 Medicare Part D claims for 1,883 beneficiaries, against an average of 3,078 among the 20,728 providers of this specialty who prescribed in Part D. Brand-name drugs were 22% of claims.
Most prescribed
- Eliquis1,387 claims
- Metoprolol Succinate1,058 claims
- Atorvastatin Calcium703 claims
- Amlodipine Besylate591 claims
- Isosorbide Mononitrate Er543 claims
- Carvedilol487 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; category weights for 2023 (qpp.cms.gov).
Industry payments in 2024: $1,289.90
46 payments; by number, the most common kind was food and beverage; the largest payer was ShockWave Medical, Inc. The 16,686 providers of this specialty with any payment received $3,819.56 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
- Dlp Frye Medical Group LLCLincolnton, NC
Source: CMS Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (the group practices a clinician bills Medicare through) (data.cms.gov).
Ghassan Soultan Alkoutami among 841 cardiovascular disease physician records in North Carolina
Ghassan Soultan Alkoutami, MD is one of 841 cardiovascular disease physician records with a practice address in North Carolina. 83% 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, 83% newer
- In a Medicare fileYes · 83% of these records are
- In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians fileYes · 72% of these records are
- Graduated1987 · median 1999 among the 606 with a school on file
- Record last updated2022 · 54% of these records were not updated in five years or more
Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026, every record with primary taxonomy 207RC0000X and a North Carolina practice address; Medicare files: CMS Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024, Doctors and Clinicians (data.cms.gov).
Cardiovascular Disease Physician providers in North Carolina
There are 841 cardiovascular disease physician records in North Carolina.
All 841 in North Carolina → Every provider in Hickory → Cardiovascular Disease Physician nationwide →
The 8 cardiovascular disease physician records with the nearest ZIP codes
- Brian Hearon, M.D.Hickory, NC 286021437112836
- Ralph Mc Donald, M.D.Hickory, NC 286021609839901
- Philip Paspa, MDHickory, NC 286021184625188
- Sanjay Patel, M.D.Hickory, NC 286021326001603
- Vincent Pompili, MDHickory, NC 286021720008360
- Pairoj Rerkpattanapipat, MDHickory, NC 286021306857883
- Deviprasad Venugopal, MDHickory, NC 286021770767527
- James Ritter, M.D.Hickory, NC 286011285601492
Common questions
What is Ghassan Soultan Alkoutami, MD's NPI number?
Ghassan Soultan Alkoutami, MD's National Provider Identifier (NPI) is 1508867516, issued on Aug 2, 2005. An NPI identifies a provider in billing; it is not a license.
Where is Ghassan Soultan Alkoutami, MD located?
The NPPES record lists a practice address at 2660 Tate Blvd SE, Hickory, NC, 28602. Phone: (828) 216-0009. Providers update this record themselves, so call before visiting.
How can I verify Ghassan Soultan Alkoutami, MD's license?
NPPES lists North Carolina license number 9300007, as entered by the provider. Search the North Carolina Medical Board at https://portal.ncmedboard.org/verification/search.aspx. The NPPES record confirms identity only; the state search shows license status, expiration and public orders.
How much does Ghassan Soultan Alkoutami, MD prescribe under Medicare Part D?
In 2024, Ghassan Soultan Alkoutami, MD had 10,737 Medicare Part D claims for 1,883 beneficiaries; the average among cardiovascular disease physician prescribers was 3,078. Part D covers Medicare prescriptions only.
What is Ghassan Soultan Alkoutami, MD'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.