Dustin G Sanchez, MD

2 locations · Traditions Psychiatry Group PC · 13 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

Licence A117848 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2011 · expires 2026-12-31 · University of Southern California Keck School 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 Psychiatry and Neurology - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - Psychiatry

1 hospital

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

• Santa Barbara Cottage HospitalSanta Barbara, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Cottage Health System, which runs 4 hospitalsPatients rate it 4 of 5 · 85% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — SSI - Abdominal Hysterectomy: 4.13, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.43, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.54, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$45,583

Medicare paid this office $45,583 for 177 people.

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

Who their Medicare patients are

177 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 66 · Under 65 32% · 85 and older 9% · Women 50% · Also on Medicaid 59% · Health risk score 1.82. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical psychiatry clinician is at 1.35.

Conditions among them: Depression 73% · High blood pressure 72% · Dementia 31% · Chronic kidney disease 30% · Diabetes 28% · Heart failure 26% · Coronary heart disease 25% · COPD 23% · Atrial fibrillation 17% · Cancer 16% · Stroke 14%.

The office billed $105,360, Medicare allowed $57,478 and paid $45,583; for 479 services of 8 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.

$82,801 in 2024

Medicaid paid $82,801 for 574 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 46 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.

$2,760

Pharmacies billed $2,760 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 60) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical psychiatry clinician is at 0%.

59 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $2,760 in drug cost.

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.

NPI

1396063129

Licence

CA A117848California A117848: Current · expires 2026-12-31

Trained

University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, 2010 · 16 years ago

Group

Traditions Psychiatry Group PC

Gender

Male