Christian Cruz, MD

2 locations · West Coast Kidney · San Mateo Dialysis Associates

Hospitals listed: 052546 · 552642 · 752538 · Ahmc Seton Medical Center · California Pacific Medical Center - Mission Bernal · Mills-Peninsula Medical Center · UCSF Health Stanyan Hospital. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

18 plans · 3 carriers

Licence A96754 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2006 · expires 2027-12-31 · Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University.

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

Surgery centers they own

• Peninsula dialysis access centerAmbulatory Surgery Center · South San Francisco, CA6% owner since 2024 · accredited by HFAP
  Initial Accreditation1 inspection, 1 with deficiencies · last 2025-07-29

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 Internal Medicine - Nephrology

4 hospitals

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

• Ahmc Seton Medical CenterDaly City, CAAcute Care Hospital · Proprietary · Has an emergency departmentPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 59% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 1 of 5 starsNo measure marked better or worse than the national rate
• California Pacific Medical Center - Mission BernalSan Francisco, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Church · Has an emergency departmentPart of Sutter Health, which runs 27 hospitals in 2 statesPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 76% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.322, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Peninsula Medical CenterBurlingame, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Sutter Health, which runs 27 hospitals in 2 statesPatients rate it 4 of 5 · 78% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 5 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.139, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.242, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• UCSF Health St. Mary'S HospitalSan Francisco, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency departmentPart of CommonSpirit Health, which runs 145 hospitals in 19 statesPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 60% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$564,028

Medicare paid this office $564,028 for 372 people.

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

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

372 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 75 · Under 65 18% · 85 and older 21% · Women 47% · Also on Medicaid 46% · Health risk score 5.87. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical nephrology clinician is at 4.01.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Chronic kidney disease 75% · Diabetes 74% · Heart failure 62% · Coronary heart disease 56% · Atrial fibrillation 42% · Depression 26% · Dementia 23% · COPD 22% · Stroke 22% · Cancer 16%.

The office billed $1,527,313, Medicare allowed $716,355 and paid $564,028; for 2,376 services of 44 kinds; $79 of it was for drugs given in the office and $563,949 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.

$148,122 in 2024

Medicaid paid $148,122 for 779 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 22 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.

$233,216

Pharmacies billed $233,216 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 0% of their Part D prescriptions (0 of 773) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical nephrology clinician is at 0%.

566 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $233,216 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.

Year by year

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

$1,065 in 2025

Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.

A payment is not proof that care is biased.