Vijaya Mukthinuthalapati, MD

8 locations · Sonora Community Hospital · Salud Para La Gente

Hospitals listed: Adventist Health Sonora · Dominican Hospital. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

7 plans · 3 carriers

Licence A184311 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2023 · expires 2027-04-30 · Manipal Academy of Higher Education Kasturba Medical College Manipal.

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

2 hospitals

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

• Adventist Health SonoraSonora, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Church · No emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Adventist Health, which runs 28 hospitals in 3 statesPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 64% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 3 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Postoperative wound dehiscence rate: 3.5 (2.04 to 4.96) · 288 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Ratio of unplanned hospital visits after hospital outpatient surgery: 1.3 (1 to 1.6) · 1,004 cases, Jan 2024 – Dec 2024Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.185, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• 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

$104,848

Medicare paid this office $104,848 for 387 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

Who their Medicare patients are

387 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 74 · Under 65 7% · 85 and older 9% · Women 52% · Also on Medicaid 22% · Health risk score 1.38. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical gastroenterology clinician is at 1.42.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 71% · Depression 26% · Diabetes 23% · Coronary heart disease 23% · Chronic kidney disease 23% · Atrial fibrillation 22% · Cancer 21% · Heart failure 19% · COPD 13% · Stroke 10% · Dementia 5%.

The office billed $887,523, Medicare allowed $133,169 and paid $104,848; for 903 services of 69 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.

$791 in 2022

Medicaid paid $791 for 42 billed services this clinician did in 2022, up to 23 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.

$32,301

Pharmacies billed $32,301 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 398) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical gastroenterology clinician is at 0%.

341 generic and 57 brand-name prescriptions · $32,301 in drug cost · 14 antibiotic prescriptions.

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.

$1,660 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

1164874855

Licence

CA A184311California A184311: Current · expires 2027-04-30

Group

Sonora Community Hospital · Salud Para La Gente

Video visits

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Gender

Male