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

Individual provider Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1326500364

Seema Sitharama Rao, MD practises General Surgery in Minot, North Dakota. Qualified in 2019, 7 years ago. Practices with Trinity Health, a 294-clinician group, works from 2 locations and accepts Medicare assignment. Licensed in North Dakota.

Years since qualifying
7
Licensed in
ND
In the registry since
2019
Specialties on file
2
What do these letters mean?
MD — Doctor of Medicine
A physician who completed allopathic medical school.

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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.

Minot, ND

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Additional practice locations (1)

  • 4301 West Markham, Slot 520, Little Rock, AR 72205 — (501) 686-6627

Specialties & licences

Surgery Physician (primary) Taxonomy 208600000X · Licence PT21594 (ND)
Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program Taxonomy 390200000X

Record details

NPI number1326500364
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderFemale
Credentials MD
Sole proprietorYes
NPI enumeratedApril 1, 2019
Last updated in NPPESSeptember 24, 2025
Certification dateSeptember 24, 2025

Medicare enrollment

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

Medicare specialtyGENERAL SURGERY
Medical schoolOTHER
Graduated 2019 (7 years in practice)
Group practice Trinity Health — 294 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.

Colonoscopy 23 times · 50th percentile
Hernia repair - groin (open) 1–10 times
Mastectomy 1–10 times
Melanoma (skin cancer) excision 1–10 times
Upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy for acid reflux 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 patients45
Services billed 81 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age72

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 $125 1 payment · travel or lodging paid or reimbursed, such as to attend a conference
Food and Beverage $66 2 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.

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Practises at

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

  • Trinity Hospitals Hospital · Minot, ND
  • Sanford Medical Center Bismarck Hospital · Bismarck, ND

Colleagues at Trinity Health

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 294 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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