Charles Putney Allison, MD

2 locations · Dignity Health · Mercy Doctors Medical Group, Inc

Hospitals listed: 059098 · California Pacific Medical Center- Van Ness Campus · UCSF Health Stanyan Hospital · UCSF Medical Center. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

9 plans · 1 carrier

Licence C33715 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 1971 · expires 2028-06-30 · University of Minnesota Medical School.

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

3 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
• UCSF Health St. Mary'S HospitalSan Francisco, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency departmentPart of CommonSpirit Health, which runs 145 hospitals in 19 statesPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 60% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• UCSF Medical CenterSan Francisco, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Other · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of University of California Health, which runs 12 hospitalsHome of UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute designated comprehensive cancer centrePatients rate it 4 of 5 · 81% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Perioperative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis rate: 4.9 (3.79 to 6.02) · 7,590 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Rate of inpatient admissions for patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy: 12.8 (11.3 to 14.4) · 2,019 cases, Jan 2024 – Dec 2024Better than the national rate — Death rate among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complications: 139.4 (110.22 to 168.58) · 452 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.622, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.626, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — MRSA Bacteremia: 0.491, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Ratio of unplanned hospital visits after hospital outpatient surgery: 0.8 (0.7 to 1) · 2,336 cases, Jan 2024 – Dec 2024

$100,294

Medicare paid this office $100,294 for 531 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

531 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 75 · Under 65 6% · 85 and older 14% · Women 54% · Also on Medicaid 40% · Health risk score 1.17. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical internal medicine clinician is at 1.76.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 71% · Diabetes 33% · Chronic kidney disease 21% · Coronary heart disease 17% · Atrial fibrillation 17% · Depression 16% · Heart failure 13% · Cancer 12% · COPD 9% · Stroke 7% · Dementia 6%.

The office billed $286,645, Medicare allowed $128,433 and paid $100,294; for 1,546 services of 38 kinds; $2,075 of it was for drugs given in the office and $98,218 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.

$4,908 in 2024

Medicaid paid $4,908 for 73 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 17 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.

$538,674

Pharmacies billed $538,674 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 4% of their Part D prescriptions (196 of 4,666) in 2024. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical internal medicine clinician is at 1%. Long-acting opioids: 11% of their opioid prescriptions.

3,986 generic and 655 brand-name prescriptions · $538,674 in drug cost · 81 antibiotic prescriptions to 57 people · 21 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.

Year by year

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