Nikhil Desai, DMD, MD
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery · Santa Clara
- 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
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 (408) 851-1000 to ask if they take your plan before you enroll.
California Medical Board record
Licence A104276 · Current
Licensed to practise in California · since 2008 · expires 2027-09-30 · Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
No disciplinary actions, convictions, malpractice judgments or citations in this record.
Drugs they prescribed that Part D paid
$606
Pharmacies billed $606 in 2024.
This is pharmacy cost, not the office bill, and not what patients paid.
40 generic and 0 brand-name prescriptions · $606 in drug cost.
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.
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 13 | $277 | $21 |
Year by year
| 2024 | 40 | 13 | None | 0% | $606 |
| 2023 | 59 | 18 | None | 0% | $718 |
| 2022 | 55 | 17 | None | 0% | $752 |
| 2021 | 72 | 19 | 24% (17) | None | $991 |
| 2020 | 38 | 16 | None | None | $608 |
| 2019 | 61 | 26 | None | 20% | $2,237 |
| 2018 | 108 | 26 | 33% (36) | 0% | $19,095 |
| 2017 | 103 | 25 | 31% (32) | 0% | $16,679 |
| 2016 | 112 | 23 | 27% (30) | None | $8,447 |
| 2015 | 139 | 22 | 14% (19) | None | $8,148 |
| 2014 | 107 | 25 | 15% (16) | None | $5,161 |
| 2013 | 44 | 15 | 27% (12) | None | $2,098 |
Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.
See the drugs prescribed each year
2023: 1 drug
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 29 | $341 | $12 |
2022: 1 drug
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 30 | $371 | $12 |
2021: 2 drugs
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 24 | $290 | $12 |
| Amoxicillin | 11 | $109 | $10 |
2019: 2 drugs
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 21 | $360 | $17 |
| Clindamycin | 11 | $217 | $20 |
2018: 2 drugs
| Oxycodone | 20 | $16,647 | $832 |
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 34 | $402 | $12 |
2017: 2 drugs
| Oxycodone | 13 | $13,877 | $1,067 |
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 24 | $262 | $11 |
2016: 2 drugs
| Oxycodone-Acetaminophen | 11 | $578 | $53 |
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 24 | $271 | $11 |
2015: 2 drugs
| Oxycodone-Acetaminophen | 12 | $728 | $61 |
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 38 | $557 | $15 |
2014: 1 drug
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 25 | $438 | $18 |
Money from drug and device companies
$27 in 2025
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | None | $27 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | None | $81 |
Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.
A payment is not proof that care is biased.
| DePuy Synthes Sales | Matrixmandible | $27 | 1 payment
|
See the published payment
| DePuy Synthes Sales | Meals · 2025-04-02 | Matrixmandible | $27 |
See earlier years (2024)
2024: $81
| Stryker | Na | $81 | 1 payment
|
Professional record
- NPI
- 1598812471
- Licence
- CA A104276California A104276: Current · expires 2027-09-30
More record details
- Sole proprietor
- No
- Taxonomy
- Federal specialty code 204E00000X (204E00000X)
- Mailing address
- 710 Lawrence Expy, Santa Clara, CA, 95051
- NPI first listed
- 2007-01-04
- NPI last updated
- 2021-12-14
This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.
This office lists an electronic records connection.