Samuel Brusca, MD

2 locations · Regents of the University of California · University of California San Francisco

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

3 plans · 1 carrier

Licence A168461 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2020 · expires 2028-04-30 · New York University School of Medicine.

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 Internal Medicine - Cardiovascular Disease
• American Board of Internal Medicine - Critical Care Medicine
• American Board of Internal Medicine - Internal Medicine

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

$104,487

Medicare paid this office $104,487 for 220 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

Procedures year by year

Times billed to Original Medicare each year. A blank year means fewer than 11 people had it, or none: Medicare does not publish smaller counts. Medicare Advantage patients are not included.

Who their Medicare patients are

220 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 71 · Under 65 20% · 85 and older 10% · Women 40% · Also on Medicaid 51% · Health risk score 3.34. Sicker patients than 9 in 10 peers; the typical cardiology clinician is at 1.71.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Heart failure 75% · Chronic kidney disease 70% · Coronary heart disease 69% · Atrial fibrillation 62% · Diabetes 54% · COPD 38% · Depression 33% · Stroke 29% · Cancer 16% · Dementia 15%.

The office billed $854,637, Medicare allowed $132,823 and paid $104,487; for 810 services of 28 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.

$60,065 in 2024

Medicaid paid $60,065 for 334 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 20 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.

$561,528

Pharmacies billed $561,528 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 134) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical cardiology clinician is at 0%.

91 generic and 43 brand-name prescriptions · $561,528 in drug cost.

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.

$3,039 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.

Research money

Money a company paid to run a study. Where it went to their institution, the clinician is named as an investigator and did not receive it; the amount covers the whole study, often across many sites.

Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.

NPI

1174942148

Licence

CA A168461California A168461: Current · expires 2028-04-30

Trained

New York University School of Medicine, 2014 · 12 years ago

Group

Regents of the University of California · University of California San Francisco

Video visits

Lists video visits

Gender

Male