Laura J Zitella, NP

1 location · University of California San Francisco · 1,780 clinicians in this group

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

3 plans · 1 carrier

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

$64,883

Medicare paid this office $64,883 for 206 people. Most of that is long return visits and Botox.

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

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

206 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 75 · Under 65 5% · 85 and older 11% · Women 44% · Also on Medicaid 16% · Health risk score 2.60. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical nurse practitioner clinician is at 1.42.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 64% · Chronic kidney disease 34% · Diabetes 22% · Coronary heart disease 21% · Atrial fibrillation 18% · Heart failure 16% · Cancer 16% · Depression 15% · COPD 14% · Stroke 7% · Dementia 6%.

The office billed $489,190, Medicare allowed $86,432 and paid $64,883; for 991 services of 13 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.

$1,307,103

Pharmacies billed $1,307,103 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 2% of their Part D prescriptions (14 of 679) in 2024. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical nurse practitioner clinician is at 0%.

550 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $1,307,103 in drug cost · 75 antibiotic prescriptions to 37 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.

Year by year

Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.

$2,795 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.

Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.

NPI

1265570949

Licence

CA NP10563

Group

University of California San Francisco

Video visits

Lists video visits

Gender

Female