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Joy Gao, DNP

NPI 1659042521ActiveIndividual· Nurse Practitioner, Family· La Mesa, CA

Nurse Practitioner, Family (DNP) in La Mesa, California, licensed in CA, with an NPI issued in September 2021. Part D covered 1,517 prescriptions written in 2024, 85% of them generic. Ucb, Inc. was the largest of 38 companies reporting payments in 2025, $8,480 in all, mostly food and beverage.

Overview

NPI1659042521
StatusActive
Entity typeIndividual
CredentialDNP
Sole proprietorYes
NPI issuedSep 21, 2021
Last updated in NPPESMar 2, 2023
Certified by providerMar 2, 2023

Specialties and licenses

TaxonomyCodeLicenseState
Nurse Practitioner, Family Primary363LF0000X95018214CA

About license numbers in NPPES

Exclusion screening

ListResultDetails
HHS-OIG LEIE · Oct 9, 2026No matchChecked by NPI and by name + state
North Carolina Medicaid · Nov 10, 2026No match—
New York OMIG · Nov 10, 2026No match—
Ohio Medicaid · Nov 10, 2026No match—
Pennsylvania Medicheck · Nov 10, 2026No match—
Washington HCA · Nov 10, 2026No match—

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Medicare

Enrollment (PECOS)Enrolled Order and Referring Only - Nurse Practitioner (CA)

Part D prescriptions in 2024

Prescriptions (claims)1,517 · 2,295 30-day fills
Patients203
Total drug cost$749,982
Generic share85% of claims

Medicare sources and data years

Industry payments (Open Payments)

  • 2025$8,480 · 289 payments from 38 companies
  • 2024$8,680 · 306 payments from 41 companies

Top paying companies in 2025

CompanyAmountPayments
Ucb, Inc.$1,54043
Abbvie Inc.$562.0341
Sk Life Science, Inc.$532.3412
Neurelis, Inc.$440.5517
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$375.6410

What the 2025 payments were for

  • Food and Beverage$8,480 · 288 payments
  • Travel and Lodging$0.73 · 1 payment

Receiving payments does not imply wrongdoing. What Open Payments covers ·original records

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