Debra L Safer, MD
Psychiatry · Stanford
- Medicare standing
- Clear
- Enrolled, allowed to bill and order, not excluded
- Plans that list them
- 4
- 1 carrier
- Offices
- 2
Offices
2 locations · Stanford Health Care · 3,152 clinicians in this group
Plans that list them
4 plans · 1 carrier
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| SCAN Balance (HMO C-SNP) | SCAN Health Plan | Listed | Oct 3, 2026 |
| SCAN Classic (HMO) | SCAN Health Plan | Listed | Oct 3, 2026 |
| SCAN MyChoice (HMO) | SCAN Health Plan | Listed | Oct 3, 2026 |
| SCAN Strive (HMO C-SNP) | SCAN Health Plan | Listed | Oct 3, 2026 |
California Medical Board record
Licence A54755 · Current
Licensed to practise in California · since 1995 · expires 2027-07-31 · University of California San Francisco School of Medicine.
No disciplinary actions, convictions, malpractice judgments or citations in this record.
Original Medicare doctor bills
$28,827
Medicare paid this office $28,827 for 30 people.
This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.
| Group psychotherapy | 22 | $5,860 | $25 |
| Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 17 | $2,261 | $133 |
Who their Medicare patients are
30 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 67 · 85 and older 0% · Health risk score 1.24. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical psychiatry clinician is at 1.35.
Conditions among them: Depression 67% · High blood pressure 63% · Diabetes 37%.
The office billed $140,244, Medicare allowed $37,531 and paid $28,827; for 451 services of 11 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
| 2024 | 30 | 451 | 67 | 1.24 | $140,244 | $28,827 |
| 2023 | 21 | 422 | 64 | 1.53 | $144,323 | $24,899 |
| 2022 | 11 | 165 | 60 | 2.56 | $84,586 | $14,608 |
| 2019 | 19 | 151 | 62 | 1.38 | $54,464 | $12,272 |
| 2018 | 23 | 157 | 61 | 1.35 | $19,921 | $11,126 |
| 2017 | 23 | 241 | 60 | 1.60 | $34,148 | $17,050 |
| 2016 | 22 | 197 | 66 | 1.44 | $33,752 | $15,703 |
| 2015 | 26 | 185 | 59 | 1.93 | $30,349 | $14,526 |
| 2014 | 29 | 268 | 60 | 1.31 | $43,047 | $19,583 |
| 2013 | 32 | 214 | 58 | 1.22 | $32,704 | $11,747 |
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.
See the services billed each year
2023: 3 services
| Telehealth originating site facility fee | 17 | $3,362 | $22 |
| Group psychotherapy | 11 | $2,400 | $24 |
| Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 11 | $1,463 | $133 |
2019: 1 service
| Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 13 | $1,444 | $111 |
2018: 1 service
| Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 15 | $1,541 | $103 |
2016: 1 service
| Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 11 | $1,217 | $111 |
2015: 1 service
| Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 16 | $1,752 | $109 |
2014: 1 service
| Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 16 | $1,408 | $88 |
2013: 1 service
| Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation | 20 | $1,924 | $96 |
Drugs they prescribed that Part D paid
$11,729
Pharmacies billed $11,729 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 74) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical psychiatry clinician is at 0%.
64 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $11,729 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.
| Fluoxetine | 16 | $245 | $15 |
Year by year
| 2024 | 74 | None | 0% (0) | None | $11,729 |
| 2023 | 66 | None | 0% (0) | 24% | $17,016 |
| 2022 | 47 | None | 0% (0) | None | $6,283 |
| 2021 | 45 | None | 0% (0) | 0% | $741 |
| 2020 | 24 | None | 0% (0) | 0% | $598 |
| 2019 | 51 | None | 0% (0) | 0% | $963 |
| 2018 | 118 | None | 0% (0) | None | $8,405 |
| 2017 | 151 | None | 0% (0) | None | $10,055 |
| 2016 | 148 | None | None | None | $5,111 |
| 2015 | 121 | None | 0% (0) | 13% | $4,996 |
| 2014 | 134 | None | 0% (0) | 16% | $3,682 |
| 2013 | 88 | None | 0% (0) | 15% | $10,231 |
Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.
See the drugs prescribed each year
2023: 2 drugs
| Vyvanse | 12 | $5,997 | $500 |
| Fluoxetine | 15 | $77 | $5 |
2022: 1 drug
| Fluoxetine | 14 | $309 | $22 |
2021: 2 drugs
| Fluoxetine | 12 | $314 | $26 |
| Trazodone | 15 | $243 | $16 |
2020: 1 drug
| Trazodone | 12 | $219 | $18 |
2019: 3 drugs
| Fluoxetine | 11 | $301 | $27 |
| Escitalopram | 11 | $186 | $17 |
| Trazodone | 11 | $176 | $16 |
2018: 5 drugs
| Aripiprazole | 22 | $4,261 | $194 |
| Sertraline | 15 | $832 | $55 |
| Fluoxetine | 12 | $762 | $63 |
| Diazepam | 14 | $105 | $7 |
| Trazodone | 12 | $104 | $9 |
2017: 5 drugs
| Fluoxetine | 14 | $768 | $55 |
| Bupropion Xl | 13 | $738 | $57 |
| Amitriptyline | 14 | $719 | $51 |
| Trazodone | 28 | $408 | $15 |
| Diazepam | 34 | $93 | $3 |
2016: 6 drugs
| Polyethylene Glycol 3350 | 12 | $1,027 | $86 |
| Fluoxetine | 13 | $903 | $69 |
| Amitriptyline | 22 | $464 | $21 |
| Liothyronine | 13 | $314 | $24 |
| Trazodone | 11 | $170 | $15 |
| Diazepam | 24 | $48 | $2 |
2015: 5 drugs
| Fluoxetine | 11 | $1,195 | $109 |
| Amitriptyline | 19 | $465 | $24 |
| Sertraline | 13 | $235 | $18 |
| Trazodone | 12 | $126 | $11 |
| Diazepam | 19 | $46 | $2 |
2014: 6 drugs
| Fluoxetine | 15 | $710 | $47 |
| Amitriptyline | 18 | $428 | $24 |
| Sertraline | 13 | $179 | $14 |
| Paroxetine | 12 | $166 | $14 |
| Diazepam | 26 | $110 | $4 |
| Trazodone | 12 | $85 | $7 |
2013: 2 drugs
| Trazodone | 12 | $81 | $7 |
| Citalopram Hbr | 13 | $60 | $5 |
Money from drug and device companies
$18 in 2025
A payment is not proof that care is biased.
| Eisai | Lenvima | $18 | 1 payment
|
See the published payment
| Eisai | Meals · 2025-08-08 | Lenvima | $18 |
Checkups this office reported
Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.
- Medicare’s overall office score
- 76.5 / 100
- Scores the office’s reporting and systems. It is not a grade for how the doctor treats you.
Professional record
- NPI
- 1073648218
- Licence
- CA A54755California A54755: Current · expires 2027-07-31
- Trained
- University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, 1994
- Group
- Stanford Health Care
- Video visits
- Lists video visits
- Gender
- Female
More record details
- Sole proprietor
- Yes
- Taxonomy
- Psychiatry (2084P0800X)
- Mailing address
- 300 Pasteur Dr, Stanford, CA, 94305
- NPI first listed
- 2007-02-21
- NPI last updated
- 2024-04-30
- NPI record certified
- 2024-04-30
This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.
Extra NPI addresses: 401 Quarry Rd, Palo Alto, CA, 94304