Margaret Chen, MD

6 locations · UCSF Medical Group Business Services · University of California San Francisco

Hospitals listed: UCSF Medical Center. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

9 plans · 1 carrier

Licence A152850 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2017 · expires 2027-11-30 · David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

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 Family Medicine - Family Medicine

Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.

1 hospital

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

• 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

$21,522

Medicare paid this office $21,522 for 149 people.

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

Who their Medicare patients are

149 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 72 · Under 65 8% · 85 and older 9% · Also on Medicaid 26% · Health risk score 1.31. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical family practice clinician is at 1.13.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 45% · Depression 31% · Cancer 20% · Chronic kidney disease 19% · Diabetes 17% · Atrial fibrillation 10% · Stroke 10% · Coronary heart disease 9% · COPD 9% · Dementia 7%.

The office billed $140,078, Medicare allowed $28,868 and paid $21,522; for 367 services of 18 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.

$905 in 2022

Medicaid paid $905 for 15 billed services this clinician did in 2022, up to 14 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.

$112,425

Pharmacies billed $112,425 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 2% of their Part D prescriptions (17 of 883) in 2024. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical family practice clinician is at 2%.

712 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $112,425 in drug cost · 12 antibiotic prescriptions.

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.

$15 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.

NPI

1427403617

Licence

CA A152850California A152850: Current · expires 2027-11-30

Group

UCSF Medical Group Business Services · University of California San Francisco

Video visits

Lists video visits

Gender

Female