Michael Stephen Pohlen, MD

14 locations · Regents of the University of California · 2,047 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: Imperial Valley Health - El Centro Hospital · UC San Diego Health Hillcrest - Hillcrest Med Ctr. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

Licence A163881 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2019 · expires 2027-07-31 · Baylor College of Medicine.

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

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.

Specialty certification

• American Board of Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology

2 hospitals

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

• El Centro Regional Medical CenterEl Centro, CAAcute Care Hospital · Government - Local · Has an emergency departmentPart of El Centro Regional Medical CenterPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 54% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 1 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 2.46, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• UC San Diego Health Hillcrest - Hillcrest Med CtrSan Diego, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Other · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of University of California Health, which runs 12 hospitalsHome of Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute designated comprehensive cancer centrePatients rate it 3 of 5 · 75% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 5 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Death rate among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complications: 105.39 (74.34 to 136.44) · 381 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.597, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.618, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.375, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — SSI - Colon Surgery: 0.376, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$32,323

Medicare paid this office $32,323 for 971 people.

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

Who their Medicare patients are

971 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 73 · Under 65 13% · 85 and older 10% · Women 53% · Also on Medicaid 34% · Health risk score 2.39. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical diagnostic radiology clinician is at 1.7.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Coronary heart disease 40% · Diabetes 36% · Chronic kidney disease 36% · Heart failure 35% · Cancer 35% · Depression 31% · COPD 29% · Atrial fibrillation 29% · Stroke 17% · Dementia 11%.

The office billed $284,901, Medicare allowed $40,548 and paid $32,323; for 1,145 services of 17 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.

$14,715 in 2024

Medicaid paid $14,715 for 802 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 123 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.

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

Opioids were 0% of their 16 Part D prescriptions in 2019. Too few prescriptions to judge: with under about 50 a year, a handful of patients can swing this share.

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

$168 in 2024

A payment is not proof that care is biased.

NPI

1285130906

Licence

CA A163881California A163881: Current · expires 2027-07-31

Trained

Baylor College of Medicine, 2014 · 12 years ago

Group

Regents of the University of California

Gender

Male