Provider records sourced from NPPES (CMS National Plan & Provider Enumeration System). Data current as of August 10, 2026.
NPIDirectory

Dr. Kara Elizabeth Friend, MD

Individual provider Surgery Physician · NPI 1598926842

Dr. Kara Elizabeth Friend, MD practises General Surgery in Norfolk, Virginia. Graduated from Eastern Virginia Medical School in 2008, 18 years ago. Practices with Sentara Medical Group, a 1,403-clinician group, works from 2 locations and accepts Medicare assignment. Licensed in Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Years since qualifying
18
Trained at
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Licensed in
PA, VA
In the registry since
2008
Specialties on file
2
What do these letters mean?
MD — Doctor of Medicine
A physician who completed allopathic medical school.

See every abbreviation used in this directory →

Claim this listing Report a problem Suggest an edit

Practice location Address checks out

6251 E Virginia Beach Blvd Ste 300
Norfolk, VA 23502-2824
Phone: (757) 261-5000
Fax: (757) 962-5610
Show map & directions

Directions in Google Maps · Apple Maps · OpenStreetMap

Pin is approximate — placed at the ZIP-code centre, not the exact door.

Additional practice locations (1)

  • 5501 Old York Rd, Philadelphia, PA 19141-3018 — (215) 254-2730

Specialties & licences

Surgery Physician (primary) Taxonomy 208600000X · Licence 0101265903 (VA)
Surgery Physician Taxonomy 208600000X · Licence MD454473 (PA)

Record details

NPI number1598926842
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderFemale
Credentials MD
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedJune 19, 2008
Last updated in NPPESJuly 21, 2021
Certification dateJuly 21, 2021

Medicare enrollment

From the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file — this clinician is enrolled in Medicare.

Medicare specialtyGENERAL SURGERY
Medical schoolEASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL
Graduated 2008 (18 years in practice)
Group practice Sentara Medical Group — 1403 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

Mastectomy 61 times · 96th percentile
Melanoma (skin cancer) excision 1–10 times
Removal or shaving of skin growth 1–10 times
Skin biopsy 1–10 times

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Medicare patients238
Services billed 857 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age73

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Food and Beverage $18 1 payment · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician. Those with a page here are linked.

Colleagues at Sentara Medical Group

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 1403 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

Other providers in Norfolk