Pushpalatha Arakere, MD

1 location

Hospitals listed: Adventist Health Hanford · Clovis Community Medical Center · Community Regional Medical Center · Saint Agnes Medical Center. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

Licence A88072 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2004 · expires 2028-05-31 · Gulbarga University, Mahadevappa Rampure Medical College.

No disciplinary actions, convictions, malpractice judgments or citations in this record.

4 hospitals

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

• Adventist Health HanfordHanford, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Church · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Adventist Health, which runs 28 hospitals in 3 statesPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 65% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 3 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.277, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Clovis Community Medical CenterClovis, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Community Medical Centers, which runs 4 hospitalsPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 80% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 2 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Rate of inpatient admissions for patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy: 14.7 (12.1 to 17.7) · 421 cases, Jan 2024 – Dec 2024Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.692, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Community Regional Medical CenterFresno, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Community Medical Centers, which runs 4 hospitalsPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 70% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 1 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Death rate among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complications: 211.21 (174.88 to 247.54) · 239 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.705, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Saint Agnes Medical CenterFresno, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Church · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Trinity Health, which runs 105 hospitals in 16 statesPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 76% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 2 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.274, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.312, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.141, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$199,999

Medicare paid this office $199,999 for 830 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

Who their Medicare patients are

830 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 74 · Under 65 13% · 85 and older 16% · Women 50% · Also on Medicaid 42% · Health risk score 2.80. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical infectious disease clinician is at 3.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 58% · Chronic kidney disease 56% · Coronary heart disease 49% · Heart failure 44% · Depression 35% · Atrial fibrillation 32% · COPD 30% · Dementia 20% · Cancer 19% · Stroke 13%.

The office billed $374,295, Medicare allowed $259,278 and paid $199,999; for 2,043 services of 13 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.

$1,341 in 2024

Medicaid paid $1,341 for 485 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 44 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.

$1,718,381

Pharmacies billed $1,718,381 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 1% of their Part D prescriptions (19 of 2,091) in 2024. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical infectious disease clinician is at 0%.

1,788 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $1,718,381 in drug cost · 1,074 antibiotic prescriptions to 281 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.

$1,910 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.