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

Individual provider Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1255821401

Dr. Chiagozie Nwakanma, MD practises General Surgery in New York, New York. Qualified in 2016, 10 years ago. Practices with New York University, a 5,884-clinician group, accepts Medicare assignment and offers telehealth. Licensed in New York.

Years since qualifying
10
Licensed in
NY
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.

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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.

New York, NY

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Specialties & licences

Surgery Physician (primary) Taxonomy 208600000X · Licence 327276 (NY)
Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program Taxonomy 390200000X

Record details

NPI number1255821401
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderMale
Credentials MD
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedMay 14, 2018
Last updated in NPPESJune 11, 2024
Certification dateJune 11, 2024

Medicare enrollment

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

Medicare specialtyGENERAL SURGERY
Medical schoolOTHER
Graduated 2016 (10 years in practice)
Group practice New York University — 5884 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount
TelehealthOffers telehealth services
Practice locations3 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.

Removal of tissue 53 times · 79th percentile
Removal of skin lesions 13 times · 60th percentile

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 patients404
Services billed 944 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age79

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 $742 31 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee
Travel and Lodging $411 1 payment · travel or lodging paid or reimbursed, such as to attend a conference
Long term medical supply or device loan $395 1 payment · a device or supply lent for a long period, not cash

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.

  • Nyu Langone Hospitals Hospital · New York, NY
  • Vns Of Ny Home Care Chha Home health agency · New York, NY

Colleagues at New York University

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 5884 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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