Salim G Contractor, MD

1 location · New York Oncology Hematology PC · 82 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: Albany Medical Center Hospital · Columbia Memorial Hospital · Samaritan Hospital. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

3 hospitals

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

• Albany Medical Center HospitalAlbany, NYAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Albany Medical Center, which runs 3 hospitalsPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 57% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 1 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.685, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.654, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.409, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — MRSA Bacteremia: 0.559, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Columbia Memorial HospitalHudson, NYAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency departmentPart of Columbia Memorial HealthPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 59% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 1 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — CMS Medicare PSI 90: Patient safety and adverse events composite: 2.17 (1.74 to 2.61), Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Pressure ulcer rate: 4.5 (3.5 to 5.5) · 1,825 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024
• Samaritan Hospital of Troy, New YorkTroy, NYAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Trinity Health, which runs 105 hospitals in 16 statesPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 65% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 3 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.488, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$2,756,237

Medicare paid this office $2,756,237 for 776 people.

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

Who their Medicare patients are

776 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 74 · Under 65 11% · 85 and older 11% · Women 55% · Also on Medicaid 23% · Health risk score 1.87. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical medical oncology clinician is at 2.11.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Cancer 40% · Coronary heart disease 35% · Diabetes 31% · Chronic kidney disease 25% · COPD 23% · Atrial fibrillation 21% · Depression 20% · Heart failure 19% · Stroke 11% · Dementia 6%.

The office billed $10,859,979, Medicare allowed $3,439,462 and paid $2,756,237; for 190,459 services of 174 kinds; $2,313,144 of it was for drugs given in the office and $443,093 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.

$20,463 in 2024

Medicaid paid $20,463 for 1,794 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 42 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.

$3,021,300

Pharmacies billed $3,021,300 in 2024.

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

579 generic and 232 brand-name prescriptions · $3,021,300 in drug cost · 24 antibiotic prescriptions to 13 people · 14 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.