Aarron Flowers, DPM

6 locations · Sutter Bay Medical Foundation · 3,783 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: Dominican Hospital · Sutter Maternity & Surgery Center of Santa Cruz. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

2 hospitals

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

• Dominican HospitalSanta Cruz, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of CommonSpirit Health, which runs 145 hospitals in 19 statesPatients rate it 4 of 5 · 68% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Postoperative sepsis rate: 11.66 (8.02 to 15.3) · 412 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.168, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.169, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.489, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Sutter Maternity & Surgery Center of Santa CruzSanta Cruz, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · No emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Sutter Health, which runs 27 hospitals in 2 statesPatients rate it 4 of 5 · 85% would definitely recommend it
  No overall ratingNo measure marked better or worse than the national rate

$144,012

Medicare paid this office $144,012 for 578 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

Who their Medicare patients are

578 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 75 · Under 65 5% · 85 and older 9% · Women 66% · Also on Medicaid 11% · Health risk score 1.10. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical podiatry clinician is at 1.55.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 58% · Diabetes 25% · Depression 20% · Chronic kidney disease 19% · Atrial fibrillation 17% · Coronary heart disease 16% · Cancer 13% · Heart failure 10% · COPD 6% · Dementia 5% · Stroke 3%.

The office billed $634,446, Medicare allowed $194,091 and paid $144,012; for 1,886 services of 67 kinds; $94 of it was for drugs given in the office and $143,918 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.

$577 in 2024

Medicaid paid $577 for 13 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 13 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.

$1,271

Pharmacies billed $1,271 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 12% of their Part D prescriptions (13 of 105) in 2024. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical podiatry clinician is at 5%.

105 generic and 0 brand-name prescriptions · $1,271 in drug cost · 25 antibiotic prescriptions to 18 people.

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.

$785 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.

NPI

1144607466

Licence

CA E5443

Group

Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Gender

Male