Owen P Palmer, MD

4 locations · Bradley B Hill MD A Professional Corporation · West Coast Kidney

Hospitals listed: El Camino Health · Good Samaritan Hospital · Mills-Peninsula Medical Center. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

29 plans · 8 carriers

Licence A105504 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2008 · expires 2028-01-31 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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.

• El Camino HealthMountain View, CAAcute Care Hospital · Government - Hospital District or Authority · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of El Camino Health, which runs 2 hospitalsPatients rate it 4 of 5 · 80% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.291, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.393, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — MRSA Bacteremia: 0, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Good Samaritan HospitalSan Jose, CAAcute Care Hospital · Proprietary · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of HCA Healthcare, which runs 185 hospitals in 19 statesPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 67% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 2 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.337, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Peninsula Medical CenterBurlingame, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Sutter Health, which runs 27 hospitals in 2 statesPatients rate it 4 of 5 · 78% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 5 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.139, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.242, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$70,444

Medicare paid this office $70,444 for 279 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

Who their Medicare patients are

279 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 77 · Under 65 5% · 85 and older 20% · Women 48% · Also on Medicaid 17% · Health risk score 2.89. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical vascular surgery clinician is at 2.33.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Chronic kidney disease 45% · Diabetes 41% · Coronary heart disease 37% · Heart failure 35% · Atrial fibrillation 31% · Cancer 24% · Depression 23% · COPD 22% · Stroke 14% · Dementia 11%.

The office billed $636,659, Medicare allowed $93,725 and paid $70,444; for 555 services of 75 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.

$1,414 in 2023

Medicaid paid $1,414 for 41 billed services this clinician did in 2023, up to 15 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.

$27,449

Pharmacies billed $27,449 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 110) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical vascular surgery clinician is at 11%.

83 generic and 27 brand-name prescriptions · $27,449 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.

$656 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

1194907162

Licence

CA A105504California A105504: Current · expires 2028-01-31

Trained

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, 2007

Group

Bradley B Hill MD A Professional Corporation · West Coast Kidney

Video visits

Lists video visits

Gender

Male