NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Transplant Surgery Physician in Iowa

15 NPPES records list transplant surgery physician with a practice address in Iowa, 0.5 per 100,000 residents, the 8th highest rate of 46. Iowa City 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 204F00000X · method

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

Iowa City has the most, 12

  1. Iowa City12
  2. Des Moines2
  3. Coralville1

Transplant Surgery Physician records in Iowa

  1. Muhammad Abbas, MDCoralville, IA 522411225446420
  2. Juan Arenas, MDDes Moines, IA 503091225191703
  3. David Axelrod, MDIowa City, IA 522421477574820
  4. Hassan Aziz, MDIowa City, IA 522421356781363
  5. Qasim Chaudhry, MB BCHDes Moines, IA 503091821252750
  6. Ramy El-Diwany, MD, PHDIowa City, IA 522421558718031
  7. Hamzeh Farraj, MDIowa City, IA 522421922584622
  8. Shengliang HeIowa City, IA 522421568982767
  9. Alan Hemming, MDIowa City, IA 522421073529426
  10. Daniel Katz, MDIowa City, IA 522421023019676
  11. Yuki NakafusaIowa City, IA 522421528985330
  12. Alan Reed, MDIowa City, IA 522421174623599
  13. Swaminathan Sambandam, M.B.,B.S.Iowa City, IA 522421316156300
  14. Rajesh Shetty, MD,FRCSIowa City, IA 522421720316516
  15. Serkan SucuIowa City, IA 522421902795214

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 204F00000X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

Iowa ranks 8 of 46 per resident

  1. Minnesota0.6
  2. Illinois0.5
  3. Pennsylvania0.5
  4. Iowa0.5
  5. New York0.5
  6. Ohio0.5
  7. 50 states and D.C.0.3

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 204F00000X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

53.3% of these records appear in a Medicare file, against 79.0% 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. Iowa53.3%
  2. United States79.0%

Transplant Surgery Physician records in Iowa, measured

  • In a Medicare file8 of 15 · 53.3% here, 79.0% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file7 · 46.7% here, 69.6% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more8 · 53.3% here, 49.7% nationally

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 204F00000X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

15 NPPES records list transplant surgery physician (204F00000X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in Iowa: 0.5 per 100,000 residents against 0.3 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Iowa City has 12 of them (80%).

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. Kentucky15
  2. Louisiana15
  3. Michigan14
  4. Missouri16

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. New York0.5
  2. Ohio0.5
  3. Pennsylvania0.5
  4. Tennessee0.4

The largest states

  1. New York90
  2. Texas78
  3. California71
  4. Illinois67
  5. Florida65

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.