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

Karishma K Chawla, MD

Individual provider Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1295150852

Karishma K Chawla, MD practises Internal Medicine in Sacramento, California. Qualified in 2014, 12 years ago. Practices with Cares Community Health, a 45-clinician group and accepts Medicare assignment. Licensed in California.

Years since qualifying
12
Licensed in
CA
In the registry since
2014
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

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.

Sacramento, CA

No coordinates on file. Search this address in Google Maps

Specialties & licences

Infectious Disease Physician (primary) Taxonomy 207RI0200X · Licence A156622 (CA)
Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program Taxonomy 390200000X

Record details

NPI number1295150852
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderFemale
Credentials MD
Sole proprietorYes
NPI enumeratedFebruary 19, 2014
Last updated in NPPESJuly 12, 2019

Medicare enrollment

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

Medicare specialtyINTERNAL MEDICINE
Medical schoolOTHER
Graduated 2014 (12 years in practice)
Group practice Cares Community Health — 45 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount

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 patients20
Services billed 28 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age63

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.

Compensation for services other than consulting , including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $25,786 13 payments
Travel and Lodging $5,342 17 payments · travel or lodging paid or reimbursed, such as to attend a conference
Consulting Fee $2,230 1 payment
Food and Beverage $1,782 37 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.

Colleagues at Cares Community Health

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 45 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

Other providers in Sacramento