Christopher Brunson, MD

5 locations · University of California San Francisco · University of California Sfgh Medical Group

Hospitals listed: UCSF Medical Center · Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hosp & Trauma Ctr. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

12 plans · 2 carriers

Licence A187463 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2023 · expires 2027-06-30 · University of California San Francisco School of Medicine.

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 Radiology - Interventional Radiology and Diagnostic Radiology

2 hospitals

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

• UCSF Medical CenterSan Francisco, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Other · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of University of California Health, which runs 12 hospitalsHome of UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute designated comprehensive cancer centrePatients rate it 4 of 5 · 81% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Perioperative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis rate: 4.9 (3.79 to 6.02) · 7,590 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Rate of inpatient admissions for patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy: 12.8 (11.3 to 14.4) · 2,019 cases, Jan 2024 – Dec 2024Better than the national rate — Death rate among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complications: 139.4 (110.22 to 168.58) · 452 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.622, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.626, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — MRSA Bacteremia: 0.491, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Ratio of unplanned hospital visits after hospital outpatient surgery: 0.8 (0.7 to 1) · 2,336 cases, Jan 2024 – Dec 2024
• Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hosp & Trauma CtrSan Francisco, CAAcute Care Hospital · Government - Local · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of San Francisco Health Network, which runs 2 hospitalsPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 72% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 2 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.449, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.37, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.538, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$50,816

Medicare paid this office $50,816 for 272 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

272 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 70 · Under 65 20% · 85 and older 9% · Women 47% · Also on Medicaid 70% · Health risk score 3.94. Sicker patients than 9 in 10 peers; the typical diagnostic radiology clinician is at 1.7.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Chronic kidney disease 57% · Diabetes 51% · Coronary heart disease 31% · Depression 31% · Cancer 29% · COPD 24% · Heart failure 23% · Atrial fibrillation 23% · Dementia 17% · Stroke 17%.

The office billed $867,380, Medicare allowed $66,029 and paid $50,816; for 556 services of 100 kinds.

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.

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

Opioids were 0% of their 18 Part D prescriptions in 2017. Too few prescriptions to judge: with under about 50 a year, a handful of patients can swing this share.

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

Year by year

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

$36 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.

Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.

NPI

1033642517

Licence

CA A187463California A187463: Current · expires 2027-06-30

Trained

University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, 2017 · 9 years ago

Group

University of California San Francisco · University of California Sfgh Medical Group

Gender

Male