Joseph John Walters, MD

1 location

Hospitals listed: 058496 · Good Samaritan Hospital. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

27 plans · 5 carriers

Licence G84144 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 1997 · expires 2027-07-31 · Albany Medical College of Union University. Board flags: Probation - Licensee Placed on Probation, Limitations on Practice.

Public record actions

Respondent made no admissions but was charged with repeated negligent acts and failing to maintain adequate and accurate medical records in the care and treatment of three patients. Acceptance of this stipulated settlement is not an admission of guilt. Effective 05/09/2025, revoked, stayed, placed on four years' probation until anticipated end date of 05/08/2029. Terms and conditions include, but are not limited to, completing an education course, a prescribing practices course, and a medical record keeping course; prohibited from prescribing any controlled substances as defined by the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act for chronic pain management and from prescribing opioids or opiates to any patient for more than a total consecutive five day period per patient during probationary period; maintaining a record of all controlled substances ordered, prescribed, dispensed, administered, or possessed and any recommendations or approvals to possess or cultivate marijuana; prohibited from treating patients for chronic pain management; obtaining a practice monitor; prohibited from supervising physician assistants and advanced practice nurses; submitting proof of notification of Decision and Accusation to required parties; reimbursing the Board its costs of investigation and enforcement in the amount of $36,217.00; submitting quarterly declarations of compliance with all conditions of probation; complying with the Board's probation unit; prohibited from engaging in the practice of medicine in Respondent's or patient's place of residence, unless the patient resides in a skilled nursing facility or other similar licensed facility; and paying costs associated with probation monitoring.

1 hospital

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

• Good Samaritan HospitalSan Jose, CAAcute Care Hospital · Proprietary · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of HCA Healthcare, which runs 185 hospitals in 19 statesPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 67% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 2 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.337, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$70,406

Medicare paid this office $70,406 for 297 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

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

297 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 77 · Women 49% · Also on Medicaid 11% · Health risk score 1.04. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical family practice clinician is at 1.13.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 61% · Coronary heart disease 24% · Diabetes 20% · Atrial fibrillation 18% · Depression 15% · Chronic kidney disease 14% · Cancer 13% · Heart failure 11% · Dementia 10% · COPD 9% · Stroke 8%.

The office billed $122,641, Medicare allowed $96,926 and paid $70,406; for 985 services of 24 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.

$0 in 2024

Medicaid paid $0 for 370 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 38 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.

$289,244

Pharmacies billed $289,244 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 3% of their Part D prescriptions (129 of 4,623) in 2024. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical family practice clinician is at 2%. Long-acting opioids: 17% of their opioid prescriptions.

4,206 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $289,244 in drug cost · 161 antibiotic prescriptions to 109 people · 35 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.