Katrina Fischer, MD

1 location · Monterey Bay Oncology A Medical Corporation · 14 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula · Salinas Valley Health Medical Center. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

1 plan · 1 carrier

Licence A139123 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2015 · expires 2027-07-31 · David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

No disciplinary actions, convictions, malpractice judgments or citations in this record.

2 hospitals

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

• Community Hospital of the Monterey PeninsulaMonterey, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Montage HealthPatients rate it 4 of 5 · 84% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — CMS Medicare PSI 90: Patient safety and adverse events composite: 1.48 (1.22 to 1.74), Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Postoperative acute kidney injury requiring dialysis rate: 3.12 (1.69 to 4.56) · 1,095 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Postoperative respiratory failure rate: 19.24 (14.17 to 24.3) · 1,118 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Postoperative sepsis rate: 9.62 (6.42 to 12.82) · 1,086 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.39, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Salinas Valley Health Medical CenterSalinas, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Other · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare SystemPatients rate it 4 of 5 · 74% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.247, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$2,500,139

Medicare paid this office $2,500,139 for 929 people.

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

Who their Medicare patients are

929 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 76 · Under 65 4% · 85 and older 17% · Women 64% · Also on Medicaid 14% · Health risk score 1.79. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical hematology-oncology clinician is at 2.04.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 70% · Cancer 40% · Coronary heart disease 32% · Chronic kidney disease 28% · Diabetes 27% · Atrial fibrillation 21% · COPD 20% · Depression 20% · Heart failure 18% · Dementia 7% · Stroke 7%.

The office billed $7,879,605, Medicare allowed $3,130,641 and paid $2,500,139; for 193,801 services of 135 kinds; $2,173,499 of it was for drugs given in the office and $326,640 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.

$25,467 in 2024

Medicaid paid $25,467 for 338 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 34 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.

$833,375

Pharmacies billed $833,375 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 4% of their Part D prescriptions (14 of 378) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical hematology-oncology clinician is at 5%.

279 generic and 99 brand-name prescriptions · $833,375 in drug cost.

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.

$1,130 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.

Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.

NPI

1477972388

Licence

CA A139123California A139123: Current · expires 2027-07-31

Group

Monterey Bay Oncology A Medical Corporation

Video visits

Lists video visits

Gender

Female