Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSC
Hospitalist Physician · Nashville, TN
Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSC is a hospitalist physician with a practice address in Nashville, Tennessee, and NPI 1134239874, issued on Aug 30, 2006. Check the license (Tennessee 42809, as entered in NPPES) on the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners; the Medicare figures below come from public CMS files.
- Name
- Sunil Kripalani
- Credential
- MD, MSC
- Primary taxonomy
- Hospitalist Physician 208M00000X
- License numbers
- 42809 TN
MD42809 TN
Self-reported in NPPES; status is on the state search - Practice location
- Vanderbilt Center For Health Services Research, Nashville, TN 37232
- Phone
- (615) 936-3525
- Enumerated
- Aug 30, 2006
- Record last updated
- Mar 25, 2022
- Fax
- (615) 936-1269
- Medicaid ID
- 3001019 TN
- Medicare enrollment
- Enrolled (PECOS I20071224000015); accepts Medicare assignment
- Medical or professional school
- Baylor College Of Medicine, 1997
- Entity
- Type 1 · individual
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Verify Sunil Kripalani in five checks
- 1IdentityNPI record in CMS NPPESNPI lookupConfirmed in NPPES
- 2LicenseActive license and public ordersTennessee Board of Medical Examiners
Search for license 42809Check 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 MIPS final score for 2023 (Medicare payment program): 97.1 of 100
The Merit-based Incentive Payment System score is reported for this clinician. 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; category weights for 2023 (qpp.cms.gov).
Industry payments in 2024: $13,177.90
14 payments; by number, the most common kind was travel and lodging; the largest payer was Gilead Sciences, Inc. The 7,324 providers of this specialty with any payment received $494.84 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.
One hospital affiliation
- Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, TN · Acute Care Hospitals5 of 5 stars
Source: CMS Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (the group practices a clinician bills Medicare through); hospitals matched to CMS Hospital General Information (Care Compare) (data.cms.gov). Star ratings are CMS hospital ratings, not ratings of this provider.
Sunil Kripalani among 426 hospitalist physician records in Tennessee
Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSC is one of 426 hospitalist physician records with a practice address in Tennessee. 89% 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 7% of them.
- NPI issued2006 · 7% of these records are older, 74% newer
- In a Medicare fileYes · 89% of these records are
- In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians fileYes · 84% of these records are
- Graduated1997 · median 2012 among the 356 with a school on file
- Record last updated2022 · 39% of these records were not updated in five years or more
Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026, every record with primary taxonomy 208M00000X and a Tennessee practice address; Medicare files: CMS Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024, Doctors and Clinicians (data.cms.gov).
Hospitalist Physician providers in Tennessee
There are 426 hospitalist physician records in Tennessee.
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- Angela Horton, MDNashville, TN 372321174730386
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- Joshua Labrin, MDNashville, TN 372321548462278
- Gregory Plemmons, MDNashville, TN 372321487746897
- Elizabeth Rice, MDNashville, TN 372321891882908
Common questions
What is Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSC's NPI number?
Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSC's National Provider Identifier (NPI) is 1134239874, issued on Aug 30, 2006. An NPI identifies a provider in billing; it is not a license.
Where is Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSC located?
The NPPES record lists a practice address at Vanderbilt Center For Health Services Research, Nashville, TN, 37232. Phone: (615) 936-3525. Providers update this record themselves, so call before visiting.
How can I verify Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSC's license?
NPPES lists Tennessee license number 42809, as entered by the provider. Search the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners at https://www.tn.gov/health/licensure/me.html. The NPPES record confirms identity only; the state search shows license status, expiration and public orders.
What is Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSC's MIPS final score?
The 2023 MIPS final score is 97.1 of 100. 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.