Nu Chai, MD

3 locations · University of California San Francisco · UCSF Medical Group Business Services · University Anesthesia Medical Group

Hospitals listed: UCSF Medical Center. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

9 plans · 1 carrier

Licence A128155 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2013 · expires 2027-04-30 · Dartmouth Medical School.

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 Anesthesiology - Pain Medicine
• American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - Neurology

1 hospital

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

$34,395

Medicare paid this office $34,395 for 123 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

123 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 65 · Under 65 37% · Women 69% · Also on Medicaid 42% · Health risk score 1.73. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical pain management clinician is at 1.38.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 59% · Depression 42% · Diabetes 28% · Coronary heart disease 24% · Chronic kidney disease 24% · Heart failure 16% · COPD 12% · Cancer 11% · Stroke 10%.

The office billed $375,231, Medicare allowed $45,660 and paid $34,395; for 487 services of 56 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.

$1,444 in 2021

Medicaid paid $1,444 for 15 billed services this clinician did in 2021, up to 12 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.

$21,116

Pharmacies billed $21,116 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 10% of their Part D prescriptions (19 of 193) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical pain management clinician is at 44%.

168 generic and 25 brand-name prescriptions · $21,116 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.

$642 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

1073830477

Licence

CA A128155California A128155: Current · expires 2027-04-30

Trained

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, 2010 · 16 years ago

Group

University of California San Francisco · UCSF Medical Group Business Services · University Anesthesia Medical Group

Video visits

Lists video visits

Gender

Female