NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Cardiovascular Disease Physician in South Dakota

45 NPPES records list cardiovascular disease physician with a practice address in South Dakota, 4.9 per 100,000 residents, the 44th highest rate of 51. Sioux Falls and Rapid City have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the South Dakota license search.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 207RC0000X · method

Written with AI tools from the named public files; every figure is computed from those files (how it is made).

Sioux Falls has the most, 28

  1. Sioux Falls28
  2. Rapid City13
  3. Yankton2
  4. North Sioux City1
  5. Watertown1

Cardiovascular Disease Physician records in South Dakota

  1. Fawzi Ameer, M.D.Sioux Falls, SD 571081790195402
  2. Shazia Aziz, MDRapid City, SD 577011235791435
  3. J Bacharach, MDSioux Falls, SD 571081972566172
  4. Anurag Bajaj, M.D.Sioux Falls, SD 571081093955148
  5. Udit Bhatnagar, MDSioux Falls, SD 571051386087963
  6. Donald Bishop, MDSioux Falls, SD 571051447304076
  7. Amid Bitar, MDRapid City, SD 577011245761246
  8. Sherrie Brooks, D.O.,FACC,FACOISioux Falls, SD 571081720060858
  9. Paul Carpenter, MDSioux Falls, SD 571081598723603
  10. Richard Clark, M.D.Sioux Falls, SD 571051457466617
  11. Michael D'Urso, MDRapid City, SD 577011699720631
  12. Samuel Durr, MDRapid City, SD 577011790731826
  13. Mark Fausch, MDSioux Falls, SD 571081154388676
  14. C Gaeckle, MDSioux Falls, SD 571081528025103
  15. Karl Heilman, MDRapid City, SD 577011659344430
  16. Michael Hibbard, MDSioux Falls, SD 571081629026422
  17. Timothy Irwin, M.D.Yankton, SD 570781063622801
  18. Riaz Mahmood, DOSioux Falls, SD 571051184184061
  19. Ida Mazza, MDNorth Sioux City, SD 570491518953850
  20. Drew Messerschmidt, M.D.Sioux Falls, SD 571081467848655
  21. Steven Miller, M.D.Watertown, SD 572011669477287
  22. Jerry Moench, MDSioux Falls, SD 571081619920311
  23. David Nagelhout, MDSioux Falls, SD 571081598718132
  24. James Olson, MDSioux Falls, SD 571051649219601
  25. Christopher Paa, MDSioux Falls, SD 571081265486138
  26. Venkata Siva Kumar Pajjuru, MDYankton, SD 570781720565831
  27. Amjad Panickaveettil Mohamed Basheer, MBBSSioux Falls, SD 571081255994901
  28. Rajesh Pradhan, MDRapid City, SD 577011912115841
  29. Drew Purdy, MDRapid City, SD 577011659327781
  30. Bhaskar Purushottam, MDRapid City, SD 577011982804969
  31. Naveen Rajpurohit, M.D.Sioux Falls, SD 571051235369950
  32. Alexander Schabauer, MDRapid City, SD 577011922054048
  33. Mahmoud Sharaf, M.D.Sioux Falls, SD 571051356677447
  34. Mary SlatterySioux Falls, SD 571051548685050
  35. Lloyd Solberg, M.D.Sioux Falls, SD 571051023013075
  36. Kelly Steffen, DOSioux Falls, SD 571081043430572
  37. Maria Stys, MDSioux Falls, SD 571051740493964
  38. Joy Taylor, M.D.Sioux Falls, SD 571051093763567
  39. Kevin Vaska, MDSioux Falls, SD 571081891782645
  40. Rhythm VasudevaRapid City, SD 577011750949822
  41. Kelly Vaughn-Whitley, M.D.Rapid City, SD 577021760596928
  42. Galen Vonk, MDSioux Falls, SD 571081427096270
  43. James Walder, MDRapid City, SD 577011134169238
  44. Stephen Wasemiller, M.D.Rapid City, SD 577011790196533
  45. Bruce Watt, MDSioux Falls, SD 571081922052075

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 207RC0000X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

South Dakota ranks 44 of 51 per resident

  1. Nevada5.5
  2. Iowa5.3
  3. Texas5.3
  4. South Dakota4.9
  5. Mississippi4.8
  6. Arkansas4.8
  7. 50 states and D.C.7.9

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 207RC0000X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

82.2% of these records appear in a Medicare file, against 83.3% nationally

A Medicare file here is Part D prescribing (2024), a MIPS score (2023), an Open Payments record (2024) or Medicare group billing (CMS Doctors and Clinicians). A record outside them may still see patients: these files cover Medicare only.

  1. South Dakota82.2%
  2. United States83.3%

Cardiovascular Disease Physician records in South Dakota, measured

  • In a Medicare file37 of 45 · 82.2% here, 83.3% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file30 · 66.7% here, 70.2% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more27 · 60.0% here, 58.2% nationally
  • Median graduation year1996 · the 30 records with a school on file

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 207RC0000X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

45 NPPES records list cardiovascular disease physician (207RC0000X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in South Dakota: 4.9 per 100,000 residents against 7.9 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Sioux Falls has 28 of them (62%).

A record is a registration a provider made and keeps up to date: it shows neither that the provider is licensed nor that they still practice there. The state's own license search is the check.

States with a similar number

  1. North Dakota45
  2. Vermont47
  3. Montana64
  4. Wyoming26

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. Mississippi4.8
  2. Arkansas4.8
  3. Utah4.8
  4. Oklahoma4.5

The largest states

  1. New York2,583
  2. California2,574
  3. Florida1,946
  4. Texas1,603
  5. Pennsylvania1,476

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov); NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy; 2023 Census population estimates. A registry record 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.