Susan L Edelman, MD
Psychiatry · Palo Alto
- Medicare standing
- Clear
- Enrolled, allowed to bill and order, not excluded
- Plans that list them
- Not verified
- Not the same as out of network.
- Office
- 1
Offices
1 location
Plan participation
Not verified
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California Medical Board record
Licence C41752 · Current
Licensed to practise in California · since 1985 · expires 2028-08-31 · Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans.
No disciplinary actions, convictions, malpractice judgments or citations in this record.
Original Medicare doctor bills
$50,506
Medicare paid this office $50,506 for 11 people.
This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.
Who their Medicare patients are
11 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 76 · Also on Medicaid 0% · Health risk score 1.10. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical psychiatry clinician is at 1.35.
The office billed $73,501, Medicare allowed $63,715 and paid $50,506; for 638 services of 6 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
| 2024 | 11 | 638 | 76 | 1.10 | $73,501 | $50,506 |
| 2023 | 11 | 773 | 75 | 1.09 | $85,493 | $57,923 |
| 2022 | 13 | 870 | 73 | 1.10 | $92,171 | $62,906 |
| 2021 | 12 | 875 | 72 | 1.55 | $91,457 | $63,385 |
| 2020 | 12 | 799 | 71 | 0.98 | $75,829 | $52,462 |
| 2014 | 12 | 924 | 76 | 1.25 | $73,544 | $48,576 |
| 2013 | 13 | 987 | 76 | 1.23 | $68,828 | $37,997 |
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.
See the services billed each year
2022: 1 service
| Psychotherapy with evaluation and management visit, 30 minutes | 11 | $19,664 | $61 |
2020: 2 services
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 11 | $18,650 | $69 |
| Psychotherapy with evaluation and management visit, 30 minutes | 11 | $17,849 | $62 |
2014: 2 services
| Psychotherapy with evaluation and management visit, 45 minutes | 12 | $30,120 | $67 |
| Short return visit | 12 | $17,147 | $38 |
2013: 2 services
| Psychotherapy with evaluation and management visit, 45 minutes | 13 | $21,475 | $45 |
| Short return visit | 13 | $15,558 | $32 |
Drugs they prescribed that Part D paid
$4,676
Pharmacies billed $4,676 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 140) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical psychiatry clinician is at 0%.
140 generic and 0 brand-name prescriptions · $4,676 in drug cost · 20 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.
| Venlafaxine Hcl Er | 15 | $796 | $53 |
| Methylphenidate Er | 13 | $217 | $17 |
| Clonazepam | 13 | $173 | $13 |
| Gabapentin | 14 | $162 | $12 |
| Mirtazapine | 25 | $41 | $2 |
Year by year
| 2024 | 140 | None | 0% (0) | 0% | $4,676 |
| 2023 | 137 | None | 0% (0) | 0% | $2,518 |
| 2022 | 155 | None | 0% (0) | 0% | $4,487 |
| 2021 | 152 | 11 | 0% (0) | None | $5,956 |
| 2020 | 107 | None | 0% (0) | None | $11,249 |
| 2019 | 79 | None | 0% (0) | 15% | $4,262 |
| 2018 | 114 | None | 0% (0) | 18% | $5,815 |
| 2017 | 113 | None | 0% (0) | 20% | $20,511 |
| 2016 | 93 | None | 0% (0) | 12% | $6,176 |
| 2015 | 98 | None | 0% (0) | 32% | $17,389 |
| 2014 | 76 | None | 0% (0) | 30% | $23,248 |
| 2013 | 66 | None | 0% (0) | 24% | $12,947 |
Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.
See the drugs prescribed each year
2023: 5 drugs
| Venlafaxine Hcl Er | 16 | $647 | $40 |
| Mirtazapine | 29 | $313 | $11 |
| Gabapentin | 14 | $229 | $16 |
| Methylphenidate Er | 13 | $189 | $15 |
| Clonazepam | 13 | $123 | $9 |
2022: 5 drugs
| Methylphenidate Er | 13 | $1,303 | $100 |
| Mirtazapine | 33 | $553 | $17 |
| Venlafaxine Hcl Er | 21 | $512 | $24 |
| Gabapentin | 14 | $179 | $13 |
| Clonazepam | 13 | $168 | $13 |
2021: 5 drugs
| Desvenlafaxine Succinate Er | 17 | $764 | $45 |
| Venlafaxine Hcl Er | 20 | $645 | $32 |
| Mirtazapine | 17 | $249 | $15 |
| Gabapentin | 14 | $238 | $17 |
| Clonazepam | 13 | $116 | $9 |
2020: 3 drugs
| Venlafaxine Hcl Er | 16 | $721 | $45 |
| Gabapentin | 18 | $188 | $10 |
| Mirtazapine | 12 | $140 | $12 |
2019: 2 drugs
| Venlafaxine Hcl Er | 16 | $1,044 | $65 |
| Risperidone | 12 | $627 | $52 |
2018: 4 drugs
| Venlafaxine Hcl Er | 12 | $696 | $58 |
| Sertraline | 26 | $301 | $12 |
| Risperidone | 12 | $208 | $17 |
| Citalopram Hbr | 12 | $59 | $5 |
2017: 4 drugs
| Venlafaxine Hcl Er | 13 | $565 | $43 |
| Bupropion Xl | 11 | $465 | $42 |
| Risperidone | 12 | $326 | $27 |
| Sertraline | 20 | $84 | $4 |
2016: 2 drugs
| Venlafaxine Hcl Er | 29 | $1,627 | $56 |
| Risperidone | 11 | $237 | $22 |
2015: 5 drugs
| Abilify | 18 | $14,071 | $782 |
| Bupropion Xl | 12 | $790 | $66 |
| Venlafaxine Hcl Er | 19 | $297 | $16 |
| Lamotrigine | 11 | $125 | $11 |
| Risperidone | 11 | $114 | $10 |
2014: 2 drugs
| Abilify | 13 | $16,271 | $1,252 |
| Bupropion Xl | 12 | $708 | $59 |
2013: 2 drugs
| Bupropion Xl | 11 | $804 | $73 |
| Venlafaxine Hcl Er | 12 | $585 | $49 |
Professional record
- NPI
- 1336262518
- Licence
- CA C41752California C41752: Current · expires 2028-08-31
- Trained
- Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans, 1981
- Video visits
- Lists video visits
- Gender
- Female
More record details
- Sole proprietor
- No
- Taxonomy
- Psychiatry (2084P0800X)
- Mailing address
- 451 Lytton Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94301
- NPI first listed
- 2007-04-10
- NPI last updated
- 2015-08-28
This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.