Gobivenkata Balaji, MD
Internal Medicine Physician · Melbourne, FL
Gobivenkata Balaji, MD is an internal medicine physician with a practice address in Melbourne, Florida, and NPI 1649230459, issued on Mar 24, 2006. Check the license (Florida ME77839, as entered in NPPES) on the Florida health license search; the Medicare figures below come from public CMS files.
- Name
- Gobivenkata Balaji
- Credential
- MD
- Primary taxonomy
- Internal Medicine Physician 207R00000X
- License number
- ME77839 FL
Self-reported in NPPES; status is on the state search - Practice location
- 298 Michigan Ave, Melbourne, FL 32901
- Phone
- (321) 215-6899
- Enumerated
- Mar 24, 2006
- Record last updated
- Mar 1, 2017 (not updated in 9 years: call before relying on the address or phone)
- Fax
- (321) 215-6789
- Medicaid ID
- 257850600 FL
- Medicare enrollment
- Enrolled (PECOS I20100205000189); accepts Medicare assignment
- Telehealth
- Offers telehealth (CMS)
- Entity
- Type 1 · individual
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Also registered at 298 Michigan Ave
A shared address usually means a shared clinic or building; it does not show who employs whom.
- Monique Gilbert, PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTPhysician Assistant1154729606
Verify Gobivenkata Balaji in five checks
- 1IdentityNPI record in CMS NPPESNPI lookupConfirmed in NPPES
- 2LicenseActive license and public ordersFlorida health license search
Search for license ME77839Check the board - 3Other statesLicenses and actions elsewhereDocInfo (FSMB)Not checked
- 4ExclusionsMedicare and Medicaid bansHHS-OIG exclusion listNot checked
- 5CertificationBoard certificationABMS AOA NCCPA AANPNot checked
3.4 times the Medicare Part D claims of the average internal medicine physician in 2024
10,871 Medicare Part D claims for 834 beneficiaries, against an average of 3,176 among the 108,855 providers of this specialty who prescribed in Part D. Brand-name drugs were 12% of claims.
Most prescribed
- Rosuvastatin Calcium1,567 claims
- Pantoprazole Sodium632 claims
- Valsartan564 claims
- Amlodipine Besylate537 claims
- Metoprolol Succinate451 claims
- Ezetimibe334 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: $1,272.51
57 payments; by number, the most common kind was food and beverage; the largest payer was Novo Nordisk Inc. The 50,334 providers of this specialty with any payment received $1,303.06 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
- Brevard Health Center PLMelbourne, FL
Source: CMS Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (the group practices a clinician bills Medicare through) (data.cms.gov).
Gobivenkata Balaji among 10,151 internal medicine physician records in Florida
Gobivenkata Balaji, MD is one of 10,151 internal medicine physician records with a practice address in Florida. 84% of them appear in a Medicare file (Part D prescribing, MIPS, Open Payments or Medicare group billing); this one does. Its NPI, issued in 2006, is newer than 10% of them.
- NPI issued2006 · 10% of these records are older, 55% newer
- In a Medicare fileYes · 84% of these records are
- In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians fileYes · 65% of these records are
- Graduated1993 · median 2004 among the 6,606 with a school on file
- Record last updated2017 · 48% of these records were not updated in five years or more
Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026, every record with primary taxonomy 207R00000X and a Florida practice address; Medicare files: CMS Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024, Doctors and Clinicians (data.cms.gov).
88 internal medicine physician records list a practice address in Melbourne
They are 88 of the 4,629 NPPES records with a practice address in Melbourne, and 10,151 internal medicine physician records in Florida.
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Common questions
What is Gobivenkata Balaji, MD's NPI number?
Gobivenkata Balaji, MD's National Provider Identifier (NPI) is 1649230459, issued on Mar 24, 2006. An NPI identifies a provider in billing; it is not a license.
Where is Gobivenkata Balaji, MD located?
The NPPES record lists a practice address at 298 Michigan Ave, Melbourne, FL, 32901. Phone: (321) 215-6899. Providers update this record themselves, so call before visiting.
How can I verify Gobivenkata Balaji, MD's license?
NPPES lists Florida license number ME77839, as entered by the provider. Search the Florida health license search at https://mqa-internet.doh.state.fl.us/mqasearchservices/healthcareproviders. The NPPES record confirms identity only; the state search shows license status, expiration and public orders.
How much does Gobivenkata Balaji, MD prescribe under Medicare Part D?
In 2024, Gobivenkata Balaji, MD had 10,871 Medicare Part D claims for 834 beneficiaries; the average among internal medicine physician prescribers was 3,176. Part D covers Medicare prescriptions only.
What is Gobivenkata Balaji, 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.