Nihar Desai, M.D, MPH
Cardiovascular Disease Physician · New Haven, CT
Nihar Desai, M.D, MPH is a cardiovascular disease physician with a practice address in New Haven, Connecticut, and NPI 1700930120, issued on Jan 23, 2007. Check the license on the Connecticut Medical Examining Board; the Medicare figures below come from public CMS files.
- Name
- Nihar Desai
- Credential
- M.D, MPH
- Primary taxonomy
- Cardiovascular Disease Physician 207RC0000X
- License numbers
- 238385 MA
229225 MA
Self-reported in NPPES; status is on the state search - Practice location
- 20 York St, New Haven, CT 06510
- Phone
- (203) 767-6399
- Enumerated
- Jan 23, 2007
- Record last updated
- Jan 16, 2025
- Medicare enrollment
- Enrolled (PECOS I20130926000243); accepts Medicare assignment
- Medical or professional school
- University Of Connecticut School Of Medicine, 2006
- Entity
- Type 1 · individual
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Verify Nihar Desai in five checks
- 1IdentityNPI record in CMS NPPESNPI lookupConfirmed in NPPES
- 2LicenseActive license and public ordersConnecticut Medical Examining BoardCheck the board
- 3Other statesLicenses and actions elsewhereDocInfo (FSMB)Not checked
- 4ExclusionsMedicare and Medicaid bansHHS-OIG exclusion listNot checked
- 5CertificationBoard certificationABMS AOA NCCPA AANPNot checked
The practice group's MIPS final score for 2023 (Medicare payment program): 73.6 of 100
The Merit-based Incentive Payment System score is reported for the practice group, not for one clinician alone. Four categories are weighted into the final score; the average among 454,083 clinicians with a measured score was 83.5.
Source: CMS Quality Payment Program, MIPS performance year 2023, group reporting; category weights for 2023 (qpp.cms.gov).
Industry payments in 2024: $221,710.22
252 payments; by number, the most common kind was travel and lodging; the largest payer was Amgen 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
- Yale UniversityNew Haven, CT
Source: CMS Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (the group practices a clinician bills Medicare through) (data.cms.gov).
Nihar Desai among 503 cardiovascular disease physician records in Connecticut
Nihar Desai, M.D, MPH is one of 503 cardiovascular disease physician records with a practice address in Connecticut. 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 2007, is newer than 55% of them.
- NPI issued2007 · 55% of these records are older, 36% newer
- In a Medicare fileYes · 83% of these records are
- In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians fileYes · 69% of these records are
- Graduated2006 · median 2000 among the 348 with a school on file
- Record last updated2025 · 71% 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 Connecticut practice address; Medicare files: CMS Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024, Doctors and Clinicians (data.cms.gov).
96 cardiovascular disease physician records list a practice address in New Haven
They are 96 of the 9,793 NPPES records with a practice address in New Haven, and 503 cardiovascular disease physician records in Connecticut.
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Common questions
What is Nihar Desai, M.D, MPH's NPI number?
Nihar Desai, M.D, MPH's National Provider Identifier (NPI) is 1700930120, issued on Jan 23, 2007. An NPI identifies a provider in billing; it is not a license.
Where is Nihar Desai, M.D, MPH located?
The NPPES record lists a practice address at 20 York St, New Haven, CT, 06510. Phone: (203) 767-6399. Providers update this record themselves, so call before visiting.
How can I verify Nihar Desai, M.D, MPH's license?
Search the Connecticut Medical Examining Board at https://www.elicense.ct.gov/Lookup/LicenseLookup.aspx. The NPPES record confirms identity only; the state search shows license status, expiration and public orders.
What is Nihar Desai, M.D, MPH's MIPS final score?
The 2023 MIPS final score is 73.6 of 100, reported for the practice group. The average among 454,083 clinicians with a measured score was 83.5.
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.