Stephen Pappachen, M.D.

Overview

Entity Type: Individual Healthcare Provider
NPI: 1063418580
Primary Specialty: Preventive Medicine — Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine
Practice Location: Lakeland, Florida
Sole Proprietor: Yes

Federal Screening

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List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE)

HHS Office of Inspector General

Potential match — review required

1 potential match identified in List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE). Review required.

Source data: September 10, 2026
Records indexed: 84,001
Screened: Sep 17, 2026, 10:56 PM UTC

NPI match

STEPHEN VALIAKALAYIL PAPPACHEN

Why NPISignal flagged this

The NPI on both records is identical

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The source record

Name on the exclusion record: STEPHEN VALIAKALAYIL PAPPACHEN
NPI on the exclusion record: 1063418580
General category: PHYSICIAN (MD, DO)
Specialty: INTERNAL MEDICINE
Exclusion type: 1128a1
Exclusion date: June 19, 2025
Excluding agency: HHS Office of Inspector General
Location on record: LAKELAND, FL, 33812
Date of birth on record: Held by the source, not shown

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Specialties & Taxonomies

Preventive Medicine
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine
Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
Primary
A specialist who treats decompression illness and diving accident cases and uses hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat such conditions as carbon monoxide poisoning, gas gangrene, non-healing wounds, tissue damage from radiation and burns and bone infections. This specialist also serves as consultant to other physicians in all aspects of hyperbaric chamber operations and assesses risks and applies appropriate standards to prevent disease and disability in divers and other persons working in altered atmospheric conditions.
Taxonomy code 2083P0011X
Clinic/Center
Primary Care
Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
Definition to come...
Taxonomy code 261QP2300X

Provider-Reported License Information

Preventive Medicine (Florida): ME88723
Clinic/Center (Florida): ME88723

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Practice Locations

Practice Location

1241 Vista Hills Dr

Lakeland, Florida 33813-5642

Phone: (863) 255-6092

Record Information

Enumeration Date: June 21, 2005
Provider's NPPES Record Last Updated: March 19, 2020
Certification Date: March 19, 2020
NPISignal NPPES Dataset: August 2026

Same specialty and location, currently active.

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