Sylvia Linner Groth, MD

1 location · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · 3,510 clinicians in this group

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

Licence A149008 · Cancelled

Licence status: Cancelled · since 2017 · University of Minnesota Medical School.

License has been voluntarily canceled, or the license has been expired for at least five years and has not been renewed. No practice is permitted.

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

2 licences

• Tennessee 57334Medical Doctor · since 2018 · expires 2028-05-31Specialty on the licence: OphthalmologyMatched by name, not licence number; check the name before relying on it.
  LicensedNo board action on this licenceCheck it with the state
• Illinois 125062849Temporary Medical Permit · since 2013 · expires 2014-06-23Specialty on the licence: Transitional Year
  ExpiredNo board action on this licenceCheck it with the state

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3 placements

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.

Education

• University of Minnesota Medical School · MDMinneapolis, MN · 2013Medical school

Residency and fellowship

• Fellowship, GlaucomaPALO ALTO, CA · 2017–2018
• Residency, OphthalnologyCHAPEL HILL, NC · 2014–2017
• INTERNSHIP, Transitional YearEVANSTON, IL · 2013–2014

1 hospital

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

• Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, TNAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Vanderbilt Health, which runs 4 hospitalsHome of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute designated comprehensive cancer centrePatients rate it 4 of 5 · 80% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 5 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Postoperative hemorrhage or hematoma rate: 3.28 (2.41 to 4.15) · 6,585 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Pressure ulcer rate: 1.2 (0.85 to 1.54) · 15,700 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.591, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.703, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.241, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Ratio of unplanned hospital visits after hospital outpatient surgery: 0.7 (0.6 to 0.9) · 3,175 cases, Jan 2024 – Dec 2024

$124,143

Medicare paid this office $124,143 for 516 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

Who their Medicare patients are

516 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 75 · Under 65 5% · 85 and older 12% · Women 55% · Also on Medicaid 5% · Health risk score 1.11. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical ophthalmology clinician is at 1.16.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 70% · Diabetes 25% · Coronary heart disease 24% · Chronic kidney disease 20% · Depression 20% · Cancer 17% · Atrial fibrillation 16% · Heart failure 14% · COPD 11% · Stroke 9% · Dementia 6%.

The office billed $712,216, Medicare allowed $170,592 and paid $124,143; for 1,657 services of 30 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.

$920 in 2023

Medicaid paid $920 for 31 billed services this clinician did in 2023, up to 14 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.

$277,501

Pharmacies billed $277,501 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 3,209) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical ophthalmology clinician is at 0%.

2,426 generic and 783 brand-name prescriptions · $277,501 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.

$109 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

1275971855

Licence

CA A149008, IL 125.062849California A149008: CancelledTennessee 57334: LicensedIllinois 125062849: Expired

Trained

University of Minnesota Medical School, 2013

Group

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Gender

Female