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

Individual provider Interventional Cardiology Physician · NPI 1558454173

Dr. Nestor Felipe Mercado practises Internal Medicine in Lubbock, Texas. Qualified in 1998, 28 years ago. Practices with West Virginia University Medical Corporation, a 1,981-clinician group and accepts Medicare assignment. Licensed in New Mexico and Oregon.

Years since qualifying
28
Licensed in
NM, OR
In the registry since
2006
Specialties on file
3
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Practice location Address checks out

4802 N Loop 289
Lubbock, TX 79416-3025
Phone: (248) 259-8157
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Specialties & licences

Interventional Cardiology Physician (primary) Taxonomy 207RI0011X · Licence MD210132 (OR)
Cardiovascular Disease Physician Taxonomy 207RC0000X · Licence MD2019-0684 (NM)
Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program Taxonomy 390200000X

Record details

NPI number1558454173
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderMale
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedOctober 2, 2006
Last updated in NPPESNovember 26, 2025
Certification dateNovember 26, 2025

Medicare enrollment

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

Medicare specialtyINTERNAL MEDICINE
Medical schoolOTHER
Graduated 1998 (28 years in practice)
Group practice West Virginia University Medical Corporation — 1981 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount
Practice locations2 on file with Medicare

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.

Coronary angioplasty and stenting 1–10 times
Leg revascularization (restoring blood flow) 1–10 times
Pacemaker insertion or repair 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 patients753
Services billed 1,177 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age74

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.

Travel and Lodging $1,137 5 payments · travel or lodging paid or reimbursed, such as to attend a conference
Food and Beverage $216 5 payments · 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 West Virginia University Medical Corporation

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 1981 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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