Joseph Derek Forrester, MD

1 location · Stanford Health Care · 3,152 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: Stanford Health Care. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

17 plans · 3 carriers

Licence A122002 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2012 · expires 2028-07-31 · University of Virginia School of Medicine. Board flags: Probation Completed, Admin Action By Other State/Fed Gov'T.

Public record actions

1 hospital

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

• Stanford Health CareStanford, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency departmentPart of Stanford Health Care, which runs 3 hospitalsHome of Stanford Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute designated comprehensive cancer centrePatients rate it 4 of 5 · 83% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 5 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Perioperative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis rate: 5.31 (4.24 to 6.37) · 8,661 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Rate of inpatient admissions for patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy: 14.1 (12.7 to 15.7) · 2,191 cases, Jan 2024 – Dec 2024Better than the national rate — Postoperative respiratory failure rate: 4.08 (1.95 to 6.21) · 5,296 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.317, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.446, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — SSI - Colon Surgery: 0.241, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Ratio of unplanned hospital visits after hospital outpatient surgery: 0.7 (0.6 to 0.9) · 3,348 cases, Jan 2024 – Dec 2024

$135,905

Medicare paid this office $135,905 for 334 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

Who their Medicare patients are

334 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 74 · Under 65 11% · 85 and older 17% · Women 46% · Also on Medicaid 33% · Health risk score 2.36. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical general surgery clinician is at 1.69.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Coronary heart disease 39% · Diabetes 36% · Chronic kidney disease 36% · Atrial fibrillation 34% · Depression 34% · Heart failure 29% · Cancer 25% · Stroke 22% · Dementia 21% · COPD 20%.

The office billed $1,117,406, Medicare allowed $173,240 and paid $135,905; for 665 services of 81 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.

$528 in 2024

Medicaid paid $528 for 41 billed services this clinician did in 2024, 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.

$4,269

Pharmacies billed $4,269 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 82) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical general surgery clinician is at 34%.

80 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $4,269 in drug cost · 58 antibiotic prescriptions to 21 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.

$4,310 in 2025

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

A payment is not proof that care is biased.

Research money

Money a company paid to run a study. Where it went to their institution, the clinician is named as an investigator and did not receive it; the amount covers the whole study, often across many sites.

Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.

NPI

1417247552

Licence

CA A122002California A122002: Current · expires 2028-07-31

Trained

University of Virginia School of Medicine, 2011

Group

Stanford Health Care

Video visits

Lists video visits

Gender

Male