Nirav R Bhakta, MD

2 locations · University of California San Francisco · Regents of the University of California

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

15 plans · 2 carriers

Licence A102883 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2008 · expires 2027-11-30 · Stanford University 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 Internal Medicine - Critical Care Medicine
• American Board of Internal Medicine - Pulmonary Disease

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

$44,422

Medicare paid this office $44,422 for 533 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

533 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 71 · Under 65 19% · 85 and older 9% · Women 51% · Also on Medicaid 33% · Health risk score 2.61. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical critical care (intensivists) clinician is at 2.58.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · COPD 46% · Coronary heart disease 37% · Diabetes 36% · Chronic kidney disease 34% · Atrial fibrillation 28% · Heart failure 27% · Depression 26% · Cancer 20% · Stroke 10% · Dementia 7%.

The office billed $329,225, Medicare allowed $57,519 and paid $44,422; for 1,121 services of 35 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.

$1,554 in 2024

Medicaid paid $1,554 for 166 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 27 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.

$676,476

Pharmacies billed $676,476 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 899) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical critical care (intensivists) clinician is at 0%.

236 generic and 663 brand-name prescriptions · $676,476 in drug cost · 27 antibiotic prescriptions to 12 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.

$12 in 2020

A payment is not proof that care is biased.

Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.

NPI

1457523466

Licence

CA A102883California A102883: Current · expires 2027-11-30

Trained

Stanford University School of Medicine, 2006 · 20 years ago

Group

University of California San Francisco · Regents of the University of California

Video visits

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Gender

Male