Nicholas Richard Cortese, PA
Physician Assistant · Los Altos
- Medicare standing
- Clear
- Enrolled, allowed to bill and order, not excluded
- Plans that list them
- Not verified
- Not the same as out of network.
- Offices
- 3
Offices
3 locations · Sutter Bay Medical Foundation · 3,783 clinicians in this group
Plan participation
Not verified
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California Medical Board record
Licence G62213 · Current
Licensed to practise in California · since 1988 · expires 2027-11-30 · Tufts University School of Medicine.
Matched on the licence number without its letter prefix; check the name before relying on it.
No disciplinary actions, convictions, malpractice judgments or citations in this record.
Original Medicare doctor bills
$34,527
Medicare paid this office $34,527 for 415 people.
This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.
| Return visit (30+ min) | 159 | $13,637 | $81 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 222 | $12,930 | $52 |
| Short return visit | 33 | $1,280 | $37 |
| Automated urinalysis test | 18 | $42 | $2 |
Procedures Medicare counted
| Removal of skin lesions | 1-10 | None |
Who their Medicare patients are
415 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 76 · Under 65 5% · 85 and older 18% · Women 64% · Also on Medicaid 12% · Health risk score 1.09. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical physician assistant clinician is at 1.31.
Conditions among them: High blood pressure 68% · Coronary heart disease 26% · Chronic kidney disease 23% · Diabetes 22% · Depression 21% · Cancer 17% · Atrial fibrillation 15% · COPD 14% · Heart failure 12% · Stroke 8% · Dementia 6%.
The office billed $124,045, Medicare allowed $52,552 and paid $34,527; for 591 services of 36 kinds; $2,502 of it was for drugs given in the office and $32,026 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
| 2024 | 415 | 591 | 76 | 1.09 | $124,045 | $34,527 |
| 2023 | 555 | 833 | 75 | 1.08 | $116,783 | $42,530 |
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.
See the services billed each year
2023: 5 services
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 456 | $31,049 | $57 |
| Return visit (30+ min) | 75 | $6,257 | $75 |
| Short return visit | 52 | $2,333 | $40 |
| New patient visit (30+ min) | 14 | $991 | $71 |
| Automated urinalysis test | 49 | $117 | $2 |
Drugs they prescribed that Part D paid
$19,840
Pharmacies billed $19,840 in 2024.
This is pharmacy cost, not the office bill, and not what patients paid.
Opioids were 3% of their Part D prescriptions (15 of 555) in 2024. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical physician assistant clinician is at 1%.
506 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $19,840 in drug cost · 103 antibiotic prescriptions to 88 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.
| Fluticasone Propionate | 34 | $513 | $15 |
| Albuterol Sulfate Hfa | 16 | $420 | $26 |
| Gabapentin | 22 | $247 | $11 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate Potass | 20 | $159 | $8 |
| Atorvastatin | 21 | $152 | $7 |
See all 16 drugs
| Fluticasone Propionate | 34 | $513 | $15 |
| Albuterol Sulfate Hfa | 16 | $420 | $26 |
| Gabapentin | 22 | $247 | $11 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate Potass | 20 | $159 | $8 |
| Atorvastatin | 21 | $152 | $7 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-Macro | 13 | $144 | $11 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 11 | $128 | $12 |
| Azithromycin | 18 | $95 | $5 |
| Cephalexin | 15 | $92 | $6 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 14 | $87 | $6 |
| Metoprolol | 11 | $84 | $8 |
| Losartan | 22 | $68 | $3 |
| Lisinopril | 17 | $51 | $3 |
| Sertraline | 11 | $48 | $4 |
| Famotidine | 12 | $33 | $3 |
| Prednisone | 11 | $15 | $1 |
Year by year
| 2024 | 555 | 262 | 3% (15) | None | $19,840 |
| 2023 | 621 | 319 | 2% (15) | 9% | $24,415 |
Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.
See the drugs prescribed each year
2023: 13 drugs
| Albuterol Sulfate Hfa | 23 | $653 | $28 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 24 | $316 | $13 |
| Paxlovid (Eua) | 29 | $307 | $11 |
| Gabapentin | 28 | $294 | $10 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-Macro | 23 | $293 | $13 |
| Losartan | 19 | $217 | $11 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 18 | $190 | $11 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate Potass | 16 | $165 | $10 |
| Azithromycin | 24 | $139 | $6 |
| Ondansetron | 22 | $123 | $6 |
| Hydroxyzine | 14 | $123 | $9 |
| Cephalexin | 11 | $120 | $11 |
| Prednisone | 23 | $95 | $4 |
Money from drug and device companies
$150 in 2024
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | None | $150 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | None | $116 |
Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.
A payment is not proof that care is biased.
| Bioventus | Durolane | $150 | 1 payment
|
See the published payment
| Bioventus | Meals · 2024-11-14 | Durolane | $150 |
See earlier years (2023)
2023: $116
| Innovation Technologies | Irrisept | $116 | 1 payment
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Professional record
- NPI
- 1174252548
- Licence
- CA 62213California G62213: Current · expires 2027-11-30
- Video visits
- Lists video visits
- Gender
- Male
More record details
- Sole proprietor
- No
- Taxonomy
- Physician assistant (363A00000X)
- Mailing address
- 100 Wilson Rd Ste 100, Monterey, CA, 93940
- NPI first listed
- 2022-06-09
- NPI last updated
- 2023-08-29
- NPI record certified
- 2023-08-29
This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.