John Anthony Lafata, DO
Internal Medicine Physician · Clyde, NC
John Anthony Lafata, DO is an internal medicine physician with a practice address in Clyde, North Carolina, and NPI 1083686646, issued on Feb 7, 2006. Check the license (North Carolina 9801692, as entered in NPPES) on the North Carolina Medical Board; the Medicare figures below come from public CMS files.
- Name
- John Anthony Lafata
- Credential
- DO
- Primary taxonomy
- Internal Medicine Physician 207R00000X
- License number
- 9801692 NC
Self-reported in NPPES; status is on the state search - Practice location
- 600 Hospital Dr, Clyde, NC 28721
- Phone
- (828) 452-0331
- Enumerated
- Feb 7, 2006
- Record last updated
- Oct 10, 2023
- Fax
- (828) 456-8726
- Medicaid ID
- 891172L NC
- Medicare enrollment
- Enrolled (PECOS I20040109000469); accepts Medicare assignment
- Medical or professional school
- Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine, 1990
- Telehealth
- Offers telehealth (CMS)
- Entity
- Type 1 · individual
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Verify John Anthony Lafata in five checks
- 1IdentityNPI record in CMS NPPESNPI lookupConfirmed in NPPES
- 2LicenseActive license and public ordersNorth Carolina Medical Board
Search for license 9801692Check the board - 3Other statesLicenses and actions elsewhereDocInfo (FSMB)Not checked
- 4ExclusionsMedicare and Medicaid bansHHS-OIG exclusion listNot checked
- 5CertificationBoard certificationABMS AOA NCCPA AANPNot checked
9.5 times the Medicare Part D claims of the average internal medicine physician in 2024
30,122 Medicare Part D claims for 1,244 beneficiaries, against an average of 3,176 among the 108,855 providers of this specialty who prescribed in Part D. Brand-name drugs were 14% of claims. 1,212 claims were for opioids.
Most prescribed
- Levothyroxine Sodium1,071 claims
- Atorvastatin Calcium862 claims
- Amlodipine Besylate851 claims
- Lisinopril848 claims
- Potassium Chloride804 claims
- Eliquis778 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: $43.03
2 payments; by number, the most common kind was food and beverage; the largest payer was Pfizer 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
- Dlp Western Carolina Physician Practices LLCCanton, NC
Source: CMS Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (the group practices a clinician bills Medicare through) (data.cms.gov).
9 internal medicine physician records list a practice address in Clyde
They are 9 of the 251 NPPES records with a practice address in Clyde, and 4,056 internal medicine physician records in North Carolina.
All 9 in Clyde → All 4,056 in North Carolina → Every provider in Clyde →
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Common questions
What is John Anthony Lafata, DO's NPI number?
John Anthony Lafata, DO's National Provider Identifier (NPI) is 1083686646, issued on Feb 7, 2006. An NPI identifies a provider in billing; it is not a license.
Where is John Anthony Lafata, DO located?
The NPPES record lists a practice address at 600 Hospital Dr, Clyde, NC, 28721. Phone: (828) 452-0331. Providers update this record themselves, so call before visiting.
How can I verify John Anthony Lafata, DO's license?
NPPES lists North Carolina license number 9801692, 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 John Anthony Lafata, DO prescribe under Medicare Part D?
In 2024, John Anthony Lafata, DO had 30,122 Medicare Part D claims for 1,244 beneficiaries; the average among internal medicine physician prescribers was 3,176. Part D covers Medicare prescriptions only.
What is John Anthony Lafata, DO'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.