Perminder J S Bhatia, MD

2 locations · Neuro-Pain Medical Center Inc · Fresno Community Hospital and Medical Center

Hospitals listed: Clovis Community Medical Center · Community Regional Medical Center · Kaweah Health Medical Center · Saint Agnes Medical Center · San Joaquin Valley Rehabilitation Hosp. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

Licence A61797 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 1997 · expires 2028-07-31 · Guru Nanak Dev University Medical College.

No disciplinary actions, convictions, malpractice judgments or citations in this record.

What this clinician told their state board, medical school and everything before it. Only some states publish this, so nothing here means the state does not say, not that there was no training or certification.

Specialty certification

• American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - Neurology

4 hospitals

These rate the hospital, not this clinician. Most measures at most hospitals are no different from the national rate.

• Clovis Community Medical CenterClovis, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Community Medical Centers, which runs 4 hospitalsPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 80% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 2 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Rate of inpatient admissions for patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy: 14.7 (12.1 to 17.7) · 421 cases, Jan 2024 – Dec 2024Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.692, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Community Regional Medical CenterFresno, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Community Medical Centers, which runs 4 hospitalsPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 70% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 1 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Death rate among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complications: 211.21 (174.88 to 247.54) · 239 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.705, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Kaweah Health Medical CenterVisalia, CAAcute Care Hospital · Government - Hospital District or Authority · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Kaweah Delta Health Care DistrictPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 67% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 3 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Death rate among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complications: 239.86 (194.11 to 285.6) · 104 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.393, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Saint Agnes Medical CenterFresno, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Church · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Trinity Health, which runs 105 hospitals in 16 statesPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 76% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 2 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.274, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.312, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.141, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$814,807

Medicare paid this office $814,807 for 1,561 people.

This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.

Procedures Medicare counted

Procedures year by year

Times billed to Original Medicare each year. A blank year means fewer than 11 people had it, or none: Medicare does not publish smaller counts. Medicare Advantage patients are not included.

Who their Medicare patients are

1,561 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 74 · Under 65 14% · 85 and older 14% · Women 56% · Also on Medicaid 34% · Health risk score 1.58. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical neurology clinician is at 1.61.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 42% · Coronary heart disease 35% · Depression 33% · Dementia 32% · Chronic kidney disease 30% · Heart failure 21% · Atrial fibrillation 19% · Stroke 16% · COPD 15% · Cancer 13%.

The office billed $1,795,848, Medicare allowed $1,054,635 and paid $814,807; for 84,614 services of 57 kinds; $134,291 of it was for drugs given in the office and $680,516 for care.

Original Medicare patients only. A risk score of 1.0 is the average Medicare patient; higher means sicker. Any count under 11 is hidden.

Year by year

Original Medicare only. A service billed for fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden, so the lines can add up to less than the year's total.

$2,164 in 2024

Medicaid paid $2,164 for 668 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 38 people in a month for one service.

Medicaid and CHIP claims where this clinician did the service, fee-for-service and managed care together. Any month with fewer than 11 patients is hidden, so small Medicaid practices undercount.

$3,831,453

Pharmacies billed $3,831,453 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 5% of their Part D prescriptions (278 of 6,167) in 2024. A higher opioid share than 9 in 10 peers; the typical neurology clinician is at 0%. Long-acting opioids: 18% of their opioid prescriptions.

5,164 generic and 985 brand-name prescriptions · $3,831,453 in drug cost · 189 antipsychotic prescriptions to people over 65.

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.

Year by year

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