Riffat Shafqet Ashai, MD
Psychiatry Physician · Columbia, MD
Riffat Shafqet Ashai, MD is a psychiatry physician with a practice address in Columbia, Maryland, and NPI 1003857038, issued on Jun 9, 2006. Check the license (Maryland D0031560, as entered in NPPES) on the Maryland Board of Physicians; the Medicare figures below come from public CMS files.
- Name
- Riffat Shafqet Ashai
- Credential
- MD
- Primary taxonomy
- Psychiatry Physician 2084P0800X
- License number
- D0031560 MD
Self-reported in NPPES; status is on the state search - Practice location
- 7130 Minstrel Way, Columbia, MD 21045
- Phone
- (410) 290-6940
- Enumerated
- Jun 9, 2006
- Record last updated
- Jul 13, 2026
- Fax
- (410) 290-9763
- Medicare enrollment
- Enrolled (PECOS I20050404000286); accepts Medicare assignment
- Medical or professional school
- University Of Maryland School Of Medicine, 1985
- Telehealth
- Offers telehealth (CMS)
- Entity
- Type 1 · individual
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Verify Riffat Shafqet Ashai in five checks
- 1IdentityNPI record in CMS NPPESNPI lookupConfirmed in NPPES
- 2LicenseActive license and public ordersMaryland Board of Physicians
Search for license D0031560Check the board - 3Other statesLicenses and actions elsewhereDocInfo (FSMB)Not checked
- 4ExclusionsMedicare and Medicaid bansHHS-OIG exclusion listNot checked
- 5CertificationBoard certificationABMS AOA NCCPA AANPNot checked
2.5 times the Medicare Part D claims of the average psychiatry physician in 2024
2,532 Medicare Part D claims for 235 beneficiaries, against an average of 1,000 among the 35,054 providers of this specialty who prescribed in Part D. Brand-name drugs were 2% of claims.
Most prescribed
- Escitalopram Oxalate216 claims
- Lamotrigine163 claims
- Trazodone Hcl154 claims
- Sertraline Hcl138 claims
- Fluoxetine Hcl137 claims
- Quetiapine Fumarate124 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, group reporting; category weights for 2023 (qpp.cms.gov).
Industry payments in 2024: $13.50
1 payment: food and beverage; the largest payer was Iti, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc.). The 13,693 providers of this specialty with any payment received $4,954.93 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
- Psych Associates OF Maryland LLCTowson, MD
Source: CMS Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (the group practices a clinician bills Medicare through) (data.cms.gov).
Riffat Shafqet Ashai among 1,451 psychiatry physician records in Maryland
Riffat Shafqet Ashai, MD is one of 1,451 psychiatry physician records with a practice address in Maryland. 63% 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 6% of them.
- NPI issued2006 · 6% of these records are older, 59% newer
- In a Medicare fileYes · 63% of these records are
- In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians fileYes · 36% of these records are
- Graduated1985 · median 2000 among the 525 with a school on file
- Record last updated2026 · 60% of these records were not updated in five years or more
Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026, every record with primary taxonomy 2084P0800X and a Maryland practice address; Medicare files: CMS Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024, Doctors and Clinicians (data.cms.gov).
47 psychiatry physician records list a practice address in Columbia
They are 47 of the 6,690 NPPES records with a practice address in Columbia, and 1,451 psychiatry physician records in Maryland.
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Common questions
What is Riffat Shafqet Ashai, MD's NPI number?
Riffat Shafqet Ashai, MD's National Provider Identifier (NPI) is 1003857038, issued on Jun 9, 2006. An NPI identifies a provider in billing; it is not a license.
Where is Riffat Shafqet Ashai, MD located?
The NPPES record lists a practice address at 7130 Minstrel Way, Columbia, MD, 21045. Phone: (410) 290-6940. Providers update this record themselves, so call before visiting.
How can I verify Riffat Shafqet Ashai, MD's license?
NPPES lists Maryland license number D0031560, as entered by the provider. Search the Maryland Board of Physicians at https://www.mbp.state.md.us/. The NPPES record confirms identity only; the state search shows license status, expiration and public orders.
How much does Riffat Shafqet Ashai, MD prescribe under Medicare Part D?
In 2024, Riffat Shafqet Ashai, MD had 2,532 Medicare Part D claims for 235 beneficiaries; the average among psychiatry physician prescribers was 1,000. Part D covers Medicare prescriptions only.
What is Riffat Shafqet Ashai, 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.