Kripa Balaram, MD

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

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

12 plans · 2 carriers

Licence A185580 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2023 · expires 2027-04-30 · Northeast Ohio Medical University.

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 Psychiatry and Neurology - Geriatric Psychiatry
• American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - Psychiatry

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

$50,116

Medicare paid this office $50,116 for 188 people.

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

Who their Medicare patients are

188 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 70 · Under 65 23% · 85 and older 8% · Women 63% · Also on Medicaid 34% · Health risk score 1.71. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical psychiatry clinician is at 1.35.

Conditions among them: Depression 75% · High blood pressure 59% · Chronic kidney disease 26% · Dementia 20% · Diabetes 19% · Coronary heart disease 15% · Cancer 15% · Heart failure 11% · COPD 11% · Atrial fibrillation 10% · Stroke 7%.

The office billed $352,361, Medicare allowed $67,309 and paid $50,116; for 764 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.

$14,335

Pharmacies billed $14,335 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 374) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical psychiatry clinician is at 0%.

365 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $14,335 in drug cost · 36 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.

Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.

NPI

1154825131

Licence

CA A185580California A185580: Current · expires 2027-04-30

Trained

Northeastern Ohio University College of Medicine, 2018 · 8 years ago

Group

UCSF Medical Group Business Services · University of California San Francisco

Video visits

Lists video visits

Gender

Female