Alexander A Chang, MD

1 location · Truelight Medical Corporation · 3 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: 559279 · California Pacific Medical Center- Van Ness Campus · Chinese Hospital · Marinhealth Medical Center · Mills-Peninsula Medical Center · UCSF Health Hyde Hospital. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

9 plans · 1 carrier

Licence A127376 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2013 · expires 2027-01-31 · Rush Medical College of Rush University.

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

5 hospitals

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

• California Pacific Medical Center- Van Ness CampusSan Francisco, 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: 3 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.224, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.325, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.373, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Chinese HospitalSan Francisco, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency departmentPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 64% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 2 of 5 starsNo measure marked better or worse than the national rate
• Marinhealth Medical CenterGreenbrae, CAAcute Care Hospital · Government - Hospital District or Authority · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of MarinHealthPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 76% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 5 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Perioperative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis rate: 5.66 (3.59 to 7.73) · 1,505 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.177, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.446, 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
• UCSF Health Saint Francis HospitalSan Francisco, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency departmentPart of CommonSpirit Health, which runs 145 hospitals in 19 statesPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 61% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 3 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.251, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$77,392

Medicare paid this office $77,392 for 165 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

Who their Medicare patients are

165 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 78 · Women 46% · Also on Medicaid 12% · Health risk score 1.03. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical internal medicine clinician is at 1.76.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 73% · Coronary heart disease 21% · Diabetes 20% · Atrial fibrillation 20% · Chronic kidney disease 18% · Heart failure 13% · Stroke 13% · Cancer 10% · Depression 10% · Dementia 10% · COPD 7%.

The office billed $213,724, Medicare allowed $105,799 and paid $77,392; for 1,073 services of 37 kinds; $2,646 of it was for drugs given in the office and $74,746 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

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.

$45,697 in 2018

Medicaid paid $45,697 for 1,094 billed services this clinician did in 2018, up to 221 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.

$723,011

Pharmacies billed $723,011 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 0% of their Part D prescriptions (17 of 5,297) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical internal medicine clinician is at 1%.

4,594 generic and 677 brand-name prescriptions · $723,011 in drug cost · 96 antibiotic prescriptions to 51 people · 16 antipsychotic prescriptions to people over 65.

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.

$335 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

1225356231

Licence

CA A127376California A127376: Current · expires 2027-01-31

Group

Truelight Medical Corporation

Video visits

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Gender

Male