David Alfons Bolivar, MD

2 locations · Associated Surgeons of San Luis Obispo · Southern Monterey County Memorial Hospital

Hospitals listed: 059010 · 551604 · Adventist Health Sierra Vista · Adventist Health Twin Cities · French Hospital Medical Center. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

Licence A68461 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 1999 · expires 2027-05-31 · Loma Linda University School of Medicine.

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

Surgery centers they own

• Posada Ambulatory Surgery Center, LPAmbulatory Surgery Center · Templeton, CA5% owner since 2003 · accredited by AAAHC
  Accreditation Renewed6 inspections, 5 with deficiencies · last 2024-08-02: Requirements Met
• United Ambulatory Surgical Center of the Central Coast, LLCAmbulatory Surgery Center · Templeton, CA5% owner since 2011 · accredited by AAAHC
  Accreditation Renewed3 inspections, 1 with deficiencies · last 2021-05-20: Requirements Met

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 Surgery - Surgery

3 hospitals

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

• Adventist Health Sierra VistaSan Luis Obispo, CAAcute Care Hospital · Proprietary · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Tenet Healthcare, which runs 77 hospitals in 12 statesPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 57% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 3 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.273, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Adventist Health Twin CitiesTempleton, CAAcute Care Hospital · Proprietary · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Tenet Healthcare, which runs 77 hospitals in 12 statesPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 60% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 2 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.41, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• French Hospital Medical CenterSan Luis Obispo, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of CommonSpirit Health, which runs 145 hospitals in 19 statesPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 78% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 5 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.23, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$105,662

Medicare paid this office $105,662 for 329 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

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

329 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 74 · Under 65 7% · 85 and older 9% · Women 48% · Also on Medicaid 16% · Health risk score 1.14. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical general surgery clinician is at 1.69.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 69% · Cancer 28% · Coronary heart disease 26% · Diabetes 21% · Atrial fibrillation 21% · Chronic kidney disease 19% · Depression 18% · COPD 14% · Heart failure 12% · Dementia 5% · Stroke 5%.

The office billed $362,338, Medicare allowed $138,827 and paid $105,662; for 705 services of 70 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.

$607 in 2023

Medicaid paid $607 for 12 billed services this clinician did in 2023, up to 12 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.

$3,478

Pharmacies billed $3,478 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 40% of their Part D prescriptions (78 of 195) in 2024. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical general surgery clinician is at 34%. Surgeons prescribe little besides pain medicine after an operation, so their opioid share runs high.

186 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $3,478 in drug cost · 15 antibiotic prescriptions to 11 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.

$9,996 in 2025

Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.

• Overture Orthopaedics

  Published ownership

  $19,148

  Held by this doctor · 2025 · Preferred Stock Ownership.

Published ownership or investment in a drug or device company. This is not proof that care is biased.

A payment is not proof that care is biased.

Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.

NPI

1346242005

Licence

CA A68461California A68461: Current · expires 2027-05-31

Trained

Loma Linda University School of Medicine, 2002 · 24 years ago

Group

Associated Surgeons of San Luis Obispo · Southern Monterey County Memorial Hospital

Video visits

Lists video visits

Gender

Male