Nirali Shah Desai, MD
Ophthalmology · San Francisco
- Medicare standing
- Clear
- Enrolled, allowed to bill and order, not excluded
- Plans that list them
- Not verified
- Not the same as out of network.
- Office
- 1
Offices
1 location · Permanente Medical Group Inc · 10,928 clinicians in this group
Plan participation
Not verified
We could not verify current plan participation for this doctor. This does not mean they are out of network. Call Dr. Desai’s office at (415) 833-3780 to ask if they take your plan before you enroll.
Original Medicare doctor bills
$3,844
Medicare paid this office $3,844 for 14 people.
This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.
Who their Medicare patients are
14 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 71 · 85 and older 0% · Health risk score 1.22. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical ophthalmology clinician is at 1.16.
The office billed $11,631, Medicare allowed $5,466 and paid $3,844; for 28 services of 8 kinds.
Original Medicare patients only. A risk score of 1.0 is the average Medicare patient; higher means sicker. Any count under 11 is hidden.
Medicaid work
$9,446 in 2024
Medicaid paid $9,446 for 83 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 17 people in a month for one service.
Medicaid and CHIP claims where this clinician did the service, fee-for-service and managed care together. Any month with fewer than 11 patients is hidden, so small Medicaid practices undercount.
| Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, with initiation or continuation of diagnostic and treatment program; intermediate, established patient | 71 | $8,418 |
| INTRM OPH EXAM NEW PATIENT | 12 | $1,028 |
| 2024 | 83 | 2 | 17 | $9,446 |
| 2023 | 12 | 1 | 12 | $37 |
See the largest Medicaid services in earlier years
2023
| Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, with initiation or continuation of diagnostic and treatment program; intermediate, established patient | 12 | $37 |
Drugs they prescribed that Part D paid
$43,597
Pharmacies billed $43,597 in 2024.
This is pharmacy cost, not the office bill, and not what patients paid.
Opioids were 0% of their Part D prescriptions (0 of 1,154) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical ophthalmology clinician is at 0%.
748 generic and 406 brand-name prescriptions · $43,597 in drug cost · 17 antibiotic prescriptions to 15 people.
Part D prescriptions only. The opioid rate is opioid prescriptions as a share of all this clinician's Part D prescriptions; surgeons and pain specialists run higher than others, so it is shown against the same specialty.
| Prednisolone Acetate | 339 | $10,575 | $31 |
| Cyclosporine | 22 | $4,421 | $201 |
| Diclofenac | 269 | $3,404 | $13 |
| Latanoprost | 197 | $2,874 | $15 |
| Fluorometholone | 13 | $1,436 | $110 |
See all 14 drugs
| Prednisolone Acetate | 339 | $10,575 | $31 |
| Cyclosporine | 22 | $4,421 | $201 |
| Diclofenac | 269 | $3,404 | $13 |
| Latanoprost | 197 | $2,874 | $15 |
| Fluorometholone | 13 | $1,436 | $110 |
| Brimonidine | 51 | $1,383 | $27 |
| Dorzolamide-Timolol | 50 | $1,089 | $22 |
| Timolol Maleate | 43 | $746 | $17 |
| Erythromycin | 27 | $451 | $17 |
| Valacyclovir | 11 | $437 | $40 |
| Dorzolamide | 12 | $366 | $31 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 14 | $252 | $18 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-Dexameth | 14 | $175 | $13 |
| Moxifloxacin | 16 | $151 | $9 |
Year by year
| 2024 | 1,154 | 392 | 0% (0) | 35% | $43,597 |
| 2023 | 256 | 107 | 0% (0) | 33% | $6,108 |
Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.
See the drugs prescribed each year
2023: 5 drugs
| Prednisolone Acetate | 74 | $2,327 | $31 |
| Diclofenac | 60 | $755 | $13 |
| Latanoprost | 33 | $485 | $15 |
| Ofloxacin | 24 | $275 | $11 |
| Brimonidine | 12 | $168 | $14 |
Money from drug and device companies
$30 in 2025
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | None | $30 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | None | $22 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 | None | $37 |
Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.
A payment is not proof that care is biased.
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision | Tecnis Iol | $30 | 1 payment
|
See the published payment
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision | Meals · 2025-06-06 | Tecnis Iol | $30 |
See earlier years (2024, 2023)
2024: $22
| Alcon Vision | Clareon | $22 | 1 payment
|
2023: $37
| Alcon Vision | Rocklatan | $24 | 1 payment
|
| Bausch & Lomb Americas | Vyzulta | $13 | 1 payment
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Professional record
- NPI
- 1477013324
- Trained
- Wayne State University School of Medicine, 2019
- Gender
- Female
More record details
- Sole proprietor
- No
- Taxonomy
- Student in a training program (390200000X)
- Mailing address
- 300 Riverfront Dr Unit 23f, Detroit, MI, 48226
- NPI first listed
- 2019-03-25
- NPI last updated
- 2023-09-18
- NPI record certified
- 2023-09-18
This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.