Individual Healthcare Provider
Smita S Patel, MD
Provider's NPPES record last updated: January 23, 2008
Overview
- Entity Type
- Individual Healthcare Provider
- NPI
- 1043203615
- Primary Specialty
- Family Medicine
- Practice Location
- Covington, Louisiana
- Sole Proprietor
- Yes
Federal Screening
NPISignal checked this NPI against federal exclusion sources. Results below are based on the NPI number itself — an identifier match, not a name match.
List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE)
HHS Office of Inspector General
No potential match was identified in NPISignal's indexed List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE) records as of 2026-09-10.
- Source data
- September 10, 2026
- Records indexed
- 84,001
- Screened
- Sep 17, 2026, 11:30 PM UTC
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SAM.gov Exclusions
U.S. General Services Administration
SAM.gov Exclusions was not checked.
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- Screened
- Not checked
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Specialties & Taxonomies
- Primary
Family Medicine
Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
Family Medicine is the medical specialty which is concerned with the total health care of the individual and the family. It is the specialty in breadth which integrates the biological, clinical, and behavioral sciences. The scope of family medicine is not limited by age, sex, organ system, or disease entity.
Taxonomy code 207Q00000X Hospitalist
Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
Hospitalists are physicians whose primary professional focus is the general medical care of hospitalized patients. Their activities include patient care, teaching, research, and leadership related to Hospital Medicine. The term 'hospitalist' refers to physicians whose practice emphasizes providing care for hospitalized patients.
Taxonomy code 208M00000X
Provider-Reported License Information
- Family Medicine (South Carolina)
- 27723
- Hospitalist (Louisiana)
- MD024835
Practice Locations
Practice Location
1000 Ochsner Blvd
Covington, Louisiana 70433
Phone: (985) 875-2828
Record Information
- Enumeration Date
- August 29, 2005
- Provider's NPPES Record Last Updated
- January 23, 2008
- NPISignal NPPES Dataset
- August 2026
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