Peter Eckman, MD
General Practice · Palo Alto
- Medicare standing
- Clear
- Enrolled, allowed to bill and order, not excluded
- Plans that list them
- Not verified
- Not the same as out of network.
- Offices
- 2
- Since medical school
- 54 years
- New York University School of Medicine, 1972
Offices
2 locations
Plan participation
Not verified
We could not verify current plan participation for this doctor. This does not mean they are out of network. Call Dr. Eckman’s office to ask if they take your plan before you enroll.
California Medical Board record
Licence G25447 · Current
Licensed to practise in California · since 1973 · expires 2027-01-31 · New York University School of Medicine.
No disciplinary actions, convictions, malpractice judgments or citations in this record.
Original Medicare doctor bills
$46,120
Medicare paid this office $46,120 for 26 people.
This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 25 | $45,802 | $77 |
Who their Medicare patients are
26 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 74 · Health risk score 0.79. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical general practice clinician is at 1.33.
Conditions among them: High blood pressure 62%.
The office billed $60,130, Medicare allowed $59,162 and paid $46,120; for 598 services of 2 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
| 2024 | 26 | 598 | 74 | 0.79 | $60,130 | $46,120 |
| 2023 | 28 | 555 | 75 | 0.80 | $50,128 | $38,372 |
| 2022 | 33 | 662 | 75 | 0.77 | $58,696 | $44,909 |
| 2021 | 33 | 550 | 74 | 0.88 | $49,228 | $38,245 |
| 2020 | 34 | 435 | 74 | 0.81 | $38,851 | $29,492 |
| 2019 | 42 | 643 | 74 | 0.88 | $57,593 | $43,692 |
| 2018 | 37 | 665 | 73 | 0.76 | $59,221 | $42,660 |
| 2017 | 29 | 606 | 73 | 0.74 | $53,594 | $38,040 |
| 2016 | 32 | 580 | 73 | 0.68 | $52,047 | $38,326 |
| 2015 | 35 | 540 | 73 | 0.90 | $48,516 | $37,009 |
| 2014 | 28 | 491 | 73 | 0.89 | $40,800 | $30,502 |
| 2013 | 31 | 472 | 72 | 1.04 | $39,565 | $28,903 |
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.
See the services billed each year
2023: 1 service
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 28 | $37,506 | $68 |
2022: 1 service
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 33 | $44,058 | $67 |
2021: 1 service
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 30 | $37,093 | $69 |
2020: 1 service
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 33 | $28,541 | $67 |
2019: 2 services
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 41 | $42,034 | $67 |
| New patient visit (45+ min) | 12 | $1,654 | $138 |
2018: 1 service
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 35 | $41,558 | $64 |
2017: 1 service
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 29 | $37,487 | $62 |
2016: 2 services
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 30 | $36,790 | $65 |
| New patient visit (45+ min) | 12 | $1,537 | $128 |
2015: 2 services
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 32 | $35,271 | $67 |
| New patient visit (45+ min) | 11 | $1,561 | $142 |
2014: 1 service
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 28 | $29,655 | $61 |
2013: 1 service
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 28 | $27,878 | $60 |
Drugs they prescribed that Part D paid
This is pharmacy cost, not the office bill, and not what patients paid.
Opioids were 0% of their 12 Part D prescriptions in 2022. Too few prescriptions to judge: with under about 50 a year, a handful of patients can swing this share.
Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.
Year by year
| 2022 | 12 | None | 0% (0) | None | $2,703 |
| 2021 | 23 | None | 0% (0) | None | $6,446 |
| 2020 | 37 | None | 0% (0) | None | $32,520 |
| 2019 | 34 | None | 0% (0) | None | $21,665 |
| 2018 | 22 | None | 0% (0) | None | $35,051 |
| 2017 | 13 | None | 0% (0) | None | $6,099 |
| 2016 | 21 | None | 0% (0) | 52% | $36,896 |
| 2015 | 28 | None | 0% (0) | None | $14,539 |
| 2014 | 25 | None | 0% (0) | None | $23,253 |
| 2013 | 25 | None | 0% (0) | None | $20,563 |
Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.
Money from drug and device companies
$53 in 2025
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | None | $53 |
| 2022 | 1 | 2 | None | $109 |
Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.
A payment is not proof that care is biased.
| Abbott Laboratories | Thoratec Heartmate 3 Lvas Implant Kit | $53 | 1 payment
|
See the published payment
| Abbott Laboratories | Meals · 2025-04-10 | Thoratec Heartmate 3 Lvas Implant Kit | $53 |
See earlier years (2022)
2022: $109
| Abbott Laboratories | Heartmate Touch | $109 | 2 payments
|
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.
| Abbott Laboratories · Antiplatelet Removal and Hemocompatibility Events in the Heartmate 3 Pump · 2022 | Their institution | $22,854 |
| Abbott Laboratories · Antiplatelet Removal and Hemocompatibility Events in the Heartmate 3 Pump · 2021 | Their institution | $11,646 |
| Abbott Laboratories · Antiplatelet Removal and Hemocompatibility Events With the Heartmate 3 Pump Ide Study (Aries) · 2023 | Their institution | $7,723 |
| Abbott Laboratories · Antiplatelet Removal and Hemocompatibility Events in the Heartmate 3 Pump · 2024 | Their institution | $6,965 |
| Abbott Laboratories · Implantation of the Heartmate 3 in Subjects With Heart Failure Using Surgical Swift Hm3 Pms (Swift) · 2023 | Their institution | $2,350 |
| Abbott Laboratories · Implantation of the Heartmate 3 in Subjects With Heart Failure Using Surgical Techniques Other Than Full Median Sternotomy · 2022 | Their institution | $1,950 |
Professional record
- NPI
- 1467579342
- Licence
- CA G25447California G25447: Current · expires 2027-01-31
- Trained
- New York University School of Medicine, 1972 · 54 years ago
- Gender
- Male
More record details
- Sole proprietor
- Yes
- Taxonomy
- General practice (208D00000X)
- Mailing address
- 3507 Alma St, Palo Alto, CA, 94306
- NPI first listed
- 2007-03-23
- NPI last updated
- 2011-10-05
This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.