Benjamin Z Ball, MD

1 location · Scott C Lederhaus MD and Lew B Disney MD Prt Lederhaus Scott C Gen Ptr · 14 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: Emanate Health Inter-Community Hospital · Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center · San Antonio Regional Hospital. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

Licence A147883 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2017 · expires 2027-03-31 · University of Virginia School of Medicine.

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

3 hospitals

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

• Emanate Health Inter-Community HospitalCovina, CAAcute Care Hospital · Proprietary · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Emanate Health, which runs 3 hospitalsPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 60% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 1 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Pomona Valley Hospital Medical CenterPomona, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Pomona Valley Hospital Medical CenterPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 68% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 3 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — CMS Medicare PSI 90: Patient safety and adverse events composite: 0.64 (0.33 to 0.96), Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.398, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.389, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — MRSA Bacteremia: 0.155, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• San Antonio Regional HospitalUpland, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Other · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of San Antonio Regional HospitalPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 69% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 3 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.375, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$80,382

Medicare paid this office $80,382 for 146 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

Who their Medicare patients are

146 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 73 · Under 65 16% · 85 and older 19% · Women 62% · Also on Medicaid 57% · Health risk score 2.18. Sicker patients than 9 in 10 peers; the typical neurosurgery clinician is at 1.46.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 50% · Chronic kidney disease 42% · Stroke 38% · Depression 34% · Coronary heart disease 32% · Heart failure 29% · Dementia 25% · Atrial fibrillation 22% · Cancer 18% · COPD 16%.

The office billed $294,664, Medicare allowed $102,146 and paid $80,382; for 533 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.

$1,864 in 2024

Medicaid paid $1,864 for 38 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 13 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.

$1,634

Pharmacies billed $1,634 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 45% of their Part D prescriptions (84 of 185) in 2024. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical neurosurgery clinician is at 28%. Surgeons prescribe little besides pain medicine after an operation, so their opioid share runs high.

185 generic and 0 brand-name prescriptions · $1,634 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.

$181 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

1194183087

Licence

CA A147883California A147883: Current · expires 2027-03-31

Trained

University of Virginia School of Medicine, 2015 · 11 years ago

Group

Scott C Lederhaus MD and Lew B Disney MD Prt Lederhaus Scott C Gen Ptr

Video visits

Lists video visits

Gender

Male