Audrey K Alvarez, DPM

1 location · Bay Area Foot Care Inc · 127 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: 059551 · Eden Medical Center · Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

17 plans · 4 carriers

2 hospitals

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

• Eden Medical CenterCastro Valley, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Other · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Sutter Health, which runs 27 hospitals in 2 statesPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 75% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.122, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Stanford Health Care Tri-ValleyPleasanton, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Stanford Health Care, which runs 3 hospitalsPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 74% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 5 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.178, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.237, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$265,436

Medicare paid this office $265,436 for 339 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

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

339 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 75 · Under 65 13% · 85 and older 19% · Women 51% · Also on Medicaid 36% · Health risk score 2.40. Sicker patients than 9 in 10 peers; the typical podiatry clinician is at 1.55.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 57% · Chronic kidney disease 47% · Coronary heart disease 36% · Heart failure 32% · Atrial fibrillation 24% · Depression 22% · COPD 18% · Cancer 13% · Dementia 13% · Stroke 13%.

The office billed $950,228, Medicare allowed $339,750 and paid $265,436; for 2,930 services of 74 kinds; $46,119 of it was for drugs given in the office and $219,317 for care.

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.

$5,870 in 2024

Medicaid paid $5,870 for 232 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 19 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.

$23,185

Pharmacies billed $23,185 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 12% of their Part D prescriptions (37 of 312) in 2024. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical podiatry clinician is at 5%.

288 generic and 24 brand-name prescriptions · $23,185 in drug cost · 82 antibiotic prescriptions to 40 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.

$864 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.

11 measures · 2023

Medicare asked this office to report how often certain checkups happened in 2023. This is not a grade for the doctor. A specialist’s patients may not need every screening.

What the office says it does

Boxes the office ticked on its Medicare worksheet for 2023. Nobody checks these.

• Agreed to federal review of their records system
• Checks the state prescription-drug database before prescribing
• Did a security review of patient data
• Exchanges records both ways with other health systems
• Implementation of fall screening and assessment programs
• Implementation of medication management practice improvements
• Improved the patient portal
• Lets patients read their visit notes
• Measurement and improvement at the practice and panel level
• ONC-ACB Surveillance Attestation
• Reports cases to public health electronically
• Reports to a public-health or clinical registry
• Uses standard treatment protocols
• Exempt from immunization registry reporting

NPI

1467973230

Licence

CA E5714

Trained

California School of Podiatric Medicine, 2017 · 9 years ago

Group

Bay Area Foot Care Inc

Gender

Female