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Dr. Paras Pankaj Vakharia, MD, PHARMD

Individual provider Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1447756473

Dr. Paras Pankaj Vakharia, MD, PHARMD practises Dermatology in Chicago, Illinois. Graduated from Oakland Univ, William Beaumont School of Medicine in 2018, 8 years ago. Practices with Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, a 4,394-clinician group, works from 3 locations, accepts Medicare assignment and offers telehealth. Licensed in Illinois.

Years since qualifying
8
Trained at
Oakland Univ, William Beaumont School of Medicine
Licensed in
IL
In the registry since
2018
Specialties on file
2
What do these letters mean?
MD — Doctor of Medicine
A physician who completed allopathic medical school.
PHARMD — Doctor of Pharmacy
The professional degree required to practise as a pharmacist in the United States.

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Practice location Address checks out

Student / training record This NPI belongs to someone enrolled in a health care training programme. It carries no licence and no practice of its own, so no address or phone number is published for it.

Chicago, IL

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Additional practice locations (2)

  • 3722 Harlem Ave Ste Ll34, Riverside, IL 60546-2320 — (708) 783-6566
  • 6000 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390-2320 — (214) 648-3422

Specialties & licences

Dermatology Physician (primary) Taxonomy 207N00000X · Licence 036161201 (IL)
Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program Taxonomy 390200000X

Record details

NPI number1447756473
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderMale
Credentials MD , PHARMD
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedMarch 30, 2018
Last updated in NPPESAugust 16, 2022
Certification dateJune 26, 2022

Medicare enrollment

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

Medicare specialtyDERMATOLOGY
Medical schoolOAKLAND UNIV, WILLIAM BEAUMONT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Graduated 2018 (8 years in practice)
Group practice Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation — 4394 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount
TelehealthOffers telehealth services

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.

Removal of skin lesions 484 times · 86th percentile
Removal or shaving of skin growth 100 times · 85th percentile
Skin biopsy 143 times · 80th percentile
Melanoma (skin cancer) excision 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 patients597
Services billed 2,650 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.

Consulting Fee $7,953 1 payment
Travel and Lodging $698 2 payments · travel or lodging paid or reimbursed, such as to attend a conference
Food and Beverage $334 6 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee
Education $95 1 payment · educational material or training, 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.

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Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician.

Colleagues at Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 4394 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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