NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Interventional Pain Medicine Physician in Iowa

12 NPPES records list interventional pain medicine physician with a practice address in Iowa, 0.4 per 100,000 residents, the 44th highest rate of 51. West Des Moines and Des Moines have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the Iowa license search.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 208VP0014X · method

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

West Des Moines has the most, 4

  1. West Des Moines4
  2. Des Moines2
  3. Waterloo2
  4. Bettendorf1
  5. Dubuque1

Interventional Pain Medicine Physician records in Iowa

  1. Ashar Afzal, MDWaterloo, IA 507021689628117
  2. Fred Dery, MDNorth Liberty, IA 523171457569188
  3. Frank Hawkins, MDWaterloo, IA 507021003860636
  4. Tsung Hsu, M.D.West Des Moines, IA 502661619001997
  5. Mohammad Iqbal, MDDes Moines, IA 503141235137340
  6. Thomas Klein, D.O.Des Moines, IA 503141912070764
  7. Ronald Kloc, D.O.Mason City, IA 504011952308256
  8. Christian Ledet, MDWest Des Moines, IA 502661154385557
  9. Nathan Meloy, D.O.Bettendorf, IA 527221598762841
  10. Arjun Ramesh, M.D.Dubuque, IA 520011487034419
  11. Andrzej Szczepanek, M.D.West Des Moines, IA 502661134397565
  12. Alison Weisheipl, MDWest Des Moines, IA 502661457586422

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 208VP0014X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

Iowa ranks 44 of 51 per resident

  1. Maine0.4
  2. Massachusetts0.4
  3. Washington0.4
  4. Iowa0.4
  5. Rhode Island0.4
  6. South Dakota0.3
  7. 50 states and D.C.0.8

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 208VP0014X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

83.3% of these records appear in a Medicare file, against 88.2% 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. Iowa83.3%
  2. United States88.2%

Interventional Pain Medicine Physician records in Iowa, measured

  • In a Medicare file10 of 12 · 83.3% here, 88.2% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file8 · 66.7% here, 76.6% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more6 · 50.0% here, 43.4% nationally

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 208VP0014X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

12 NPPES records list interventional pain medicine physician (208VP0014X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in Iowa: 0.4 per 100,000 residents against 0.8 nationally (50 states and D.C.). West Des Moines has 4 of them (33%).

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. West Virginia12
  2. New Mexico11
  3. Idaho10
  4. Nebraska10

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. Washington0.4
  2. Massachusetts0.4
  3. North Carolina0.5
  4. Minnesota0.5

The largest states

  1. Texas301
  2. Florida292
  3. California219
  4. New York144
  5. Georgia142

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.