Catherine L Collins, MD

1 location · Pacific Heights Medical Group · 4 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: California Pacific Medical Center- Van Ness Campus · Novato Community Hospital · 555728. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

9 plans · 1 carrier

Licence A65417 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 1998 · expires 2028-06-30 · University of Paris Val-De-Marne U.F.R. of Creteil.

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 Internal Medicine - Internal Medicine

14 measures · 2023

Medicare asked this office to report how often certain checkups happened in 2023. This is not a grade for the doctor. A specialist’s patients may not need every screening.

What the office says it does

Boxes the office ticked on its Medicare worksheet for 2023. Nobody checks these.

• Agreed to federal review of their records system
• Checks the state prescription-drug database before prescribing
• Depression screening
• Did a security review of patient data
• Exchanges records both ways with other health systems
• Implementation of fall screening and assessment programs
• Implementation of medication management practice improvements
• Improved the patient portal
• Lets patients read their visit notes
• ONC-ACB Surveillance Attestation
• Reports cases to public health electronically
• Reports immunizations to the state registry
• Reports to a public-health or clinical registry
• Tobacco use
• Uses standard treatment protocols

2 hospitals

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

• California Pacific Medical Center- Van Ness CampusSan Francisco, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Sutter Health, which runs 27 hospitals in 2 statesPatients rate it 4 of 5 · 78% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 3 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.224, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.325, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.373, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Novato Community HospitalNovato, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency departmentPart of Sutter Health, which runs 27 hospitals in 2 statesPatients rate it 4 of 5 · 84% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 5 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$287,760

Medicare paid this office $287,760 for 339 people.

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

339 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 77 · Women 72% · Health risk score 0.85. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical internal medicine clinician is at 1.76.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 59% · Coronary heart disease 22% · Cancer 17% · Diabetes 14% · Atrial fibrillation 12% · Depression 12% · Chronic kidney disease 11% · Heart failure 6% · COPD 6% · Stroke 6%.

The office billed $662,650, Medicare allowed $361,083 and paid $287,760; for 5,192 services of 57 kinds; $8,617 of it was for drugs given in the office and $279,143 for care.

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.

$310,530

Pharmacies billed $310,530 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 2% of their Part D prescriptions (82 of 3,781) in 2024. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical internal medicine clinician is at 1%. Long-acting opioids: 17% of their opioid prescriptions.

3,246 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $310,530 in drug cost · 67 antibiotic prescriptions to 47 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.