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Nita Chainani-Wu, DMD, PHD

Dentist · Mountain View

NPI 1679692198

Medicare standing
3 flags on the record
Listed below.
Plans that list them
Not verified
Not the same as out of network.
Office
1

On the public record

  • Has dropped Medicare — you would pay privately
  • California licence: Deceased
  • 1 Medical Board action on record

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. Chainani-Wu’s office at (650) 968-3888 to ask if they take your plan before you enroll.

California Medical Board record

Licence A45056 · Deceased

Licence status: Deceased · since 1988 · University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine. Board flags: Hospital Discipline Per B&P Cde Sect 805.

Licensee is deceased.

Matched on the licence number without its letter prefix; check the name before relying on it.

Public record actions

Actions the Medical Board of California publishes for this licence
2001-10-12Hospital disciplineDisciplineTermination or revocation of staff privileges. · Modoc medical center alturas, CA

Drugs they prescribed that Part D paid

$3,958

Pharmacies billed $3,958 in 2024.

This is pharmacy cost, not the office bill, and not what patients paid.

124 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $3,958 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.

Largest Part D drug costs
Nystatin35$765$22
Clobetasol Propionate12$764$64
Fluocinonide12$558$46

Year by year

Part D prescribing by year
202413057NoneNone$3,958
202380420% (0)None$4,496
202264290% (0)None$2,145
202111244NoneNone$2,888
202082350% (0)None$3,113
201910245NoneNone$2,635
2018109350% (0)14%$4,237
201710934NoneNone$3,771
20165920NoneNone$3,205
20153317NoneNone$1,472
20145020NoneNone$1,741
20134516None0%$2,282

Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.

See the drugs prescribed each year

2023: 2 drugs

Part D drugs prescribed in 2023
Clobetasol Propionate20$1,561$78
Nystatin11$319$29

2022: 3 drugs

Part D drugs prescribed in 2022
Nystatin17$600$35
Clobetasol Propionate11$497$45
Fluocinonide11$362$33

2021: 4 drugs

Part D drugs prescribed in 2021
Clobetasol Propionate17$762$45
Fluocinonide21$649$31
Nystatin16$260$16
Chlorhexidine Gluconate26$177$7

2020: 3 drugs

Part D drugs prescribed in 2020
Fluocinonide15$652$43
Nystatin19$626$33
Clobetasol Propionate12$559$47

2019: 3 drugs

Part D drugs prescribed in 2019
Fluocinonide24$820$34
Clobetasol Propionate11$579$53
Paroex19$79$4

2018: 2 drugs

Part D drugs prescribed in 2018
Fluocinonide42$2,365$56
Lidocaine Hcl Viscous15$382$25

2017: 3 drugs

Part D drugs prescribed in 2017
Fluocinonide37$1,461$39
Dexamethasone11$292$27
Lidocaine Hcl Viscous12$112$9

2016: 1 drug

Part D drugs prescribed in 2016
Fluocinonide16$765$48

2014: 1 drug

Part D drugs prescribed in 2014
Pilocarpine11$731$66

Money from drug and device companies

$1,106 in 2024

A payment is not proof that care is biased.

Payments by company
Ultradent ProductsOpalescence$1,106
9 payments
  • Gift for Opalescence · 2024-12-20 · $183
  • Gift for Opalescence · 2024-12-20 · $166
  • Gift for Opalescence · 2024-12-20 · $74
  • Gift for Opalescence · 2024-10-07 · $166
  • Gift for Opalescence · 2024-05-28 · $43
  • Gift for Opalescence · 2024-05-28 · $183
  • Gift for Opalescence · 2024-05-23 · $183
  • Gift for Opalescence · 2024-05-23 · $43
  • Gift for Opalescence · 2024-01-29 · $62
See all 9 published payments
Every published payment
Ultradent ProductsGift · 2024-12-20Opalescence$183
Ultradent ProductsGift · 2024-12-20Opalescence$166
Ultradent ProductsGift · 2024-12-20Opalescence$74
Ultradent ProductsGift · 2024-10-07Opalescence$166
Ultradent ProductsGift · 2024-05-28Opalescence$43
Ultradent ProductsGift · 2024-05-28Opalescence$183
Ultradent ProductsGift · 2024-05-23Opalescence$183
Ultradent ProductsGift · 2024-05-23Opalescence$43
Ultradent ProductsGift · 2024-01-29Opalescence$62

Professional record

NPI
1679692198
Licence
CA 45056California A45056: Deceased
More record details
Sole proprietor
No
Taxonomy
Federal specialty code 122300000X (122300000X); Federal specialty code 125Q00000X (125Q00000X)
Mailing address
100 W El Camino Real, 76, Mountain View, CA, 94040
NPI first listed
2007-03-28
NPI last updated
2021-06-12
NPI record certified
2021-06-12

This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.