Neir Eshel, MD
Psychiatry · Palo Alto
- Medicare standing
- Clear
- Enrolled, allowed to bill and order, not excluded
- Plans that list them
- 4
- 1 carrier
- Offices
- 2
Offices
2 locations · Stanford Health Care · 3,152 clinicians in this group
Plans that list them
4 plans · 1 carrier
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| SCAN Balance (HMO C-SNP) | SCAN Health Plan | Listed | Oct 3, 2026 |
| SCAN Classic (HMO) | SCAN Health Plan | Listed | Oct 3, 2026 |
| SCAN MyChoice (HMO) | SCAN Health Plan | Listed | Oct 3, 2026 |
| SCAN Strive (HMO C-SNP) | SCAN Health Plan | Listed | Oct 3, 2026 |
California Medical Board record
Licence A151211 · Current
Licensed to practise in California · since 2017 · expires 2029-02-28 · Harvard Medical School.
No disciplinary actions, convictions, malpractice judgments or citations in this record.
Original Medicare doctor bills
$5,996
Medicare paid this office $5,996 for 21 people.
This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.
| Subsequent hospital care with straightforward or low level of medical decision making, per day at least 25 minutes | 16 | $1,274 | $41 |
Who their Medicare patients are
21 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 61 · Health risk score 1.23. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical psychiatry clinician is at 1.35.
Conditions among them: Depression 71%.
The office billed $24,951, Medicare allowed $7,706 and paid $5,996; for 84 services of 8 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 | 21 | 84 | 61 | 1.23 | $24,951 | $5,996 |
| 2023 | 24 | 90 | 62 | 1.51 | $26,365 | $5,489 |
| 2022 | 27 | 113 | 57 | 1.22 | $28,319 | $5,577 |
| 2021 | 28 | 110 | 60 | 2.11 | $35,005 | $5,551 |
| 2020 | 23 | 86 | 62 | 1.65 | $22,230 | $3,972 |
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
| Subsequent hospital care with straightforward or low level of medical decision making, per day at least 25 minutes | 18 | $1,626 | $45 |
2022: 1 service
| Subsequent hospital care with straightforward or low level of medical decision making, per day at least 25 minutes | 25 | $2,373 | $35 |
2021: 1 service
| Subsequent hospital care with straightforward or low level of medical decision making, per day at least 25 minutes | 26 | $2,074 | $31 |
2020: 1 service
| Subsequent hospital care with straightforward or low level of medical decision making, per day at least 25 minutes | 21 | $2,452 | $36 |
Drugs they prescribed that Part D paid
$730
Pharmacies billed $730 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 43) in 2024. Too few prescriptions to compare fairly with other clinicians.
43 generic and 0 brand-name prescriptions · $730 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.
| Methylphenidate | 25 | $249 | $10 |
Year by year
| 2024 | 43 | None | 0% (0) | 0% | $730 |
| 2023 | 30 | None | 0% (0) | None | $1,253 |
| 2022 | 51 | None | 0% (0) | None | $2,468 |
| 2021 | 49 | None | 0% (0) | None | $3,016 |
| 2019 | 26 | None | 0% (0) | 0% | $1,011 |
Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.
See the drugs prescribed each year
2023: 1 drug
| Methylphenidate | 15 | $112 | $7 |
2022: 2 drugs
| Prazosin | 12 | $595 | $50 |
| Bupropion | 11 | $559 | $51 |
Money from drug and device companies
$5,546 in 2025
| 2025 | 1 | 13 | $5,546 | $5,546 |
| 2024 | 1 | 9 | $6,105 | $6,105 |
| 2023 | 2 | 11 | $4,000 | $4,091 |
| 2022 | 2 | 13 | $8,254 | $9,887 |
Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.
A payment is not proof that care is biased.
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | None | $5,546 | 13 payments
|
See all 13 published payments
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | Consulting · 2025-12-22 | None | $445 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | Consulting · 2025-12-09 | None | $356 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | Consulting · 2025-11-05 | None | $445 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | Consulting · 2025-10-17 | None | $445 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | Consulting · 2025-09-17 | None | $445 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | Consulting · 2025-07-15 | None | $445 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | Consulting · 2025-06-12 | None | $445 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | Consulting · 2025-05-16 | None | $445 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | Consulting · 2025-04-15 | None | $415 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | Consulting · 2025-03-19 | None | $415 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | Consulting · 2025-03-04 | None | $415 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | Consulting · 2025-03-03 | None | $415 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | Consulting · 2025-02-03 | None | $415 |
See earlier years (2024, 2023, 2022)
2024: $6,105
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | None | $6,105 | 9 payments
|
2023: $4,091
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | None | $4,000 | 10 payments
|
| Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals | None | $91 | 1 payment
|
2022: $9,887
| Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals | None | $7,857 | 8 payments
|
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | None | $2,029 | 5 payments
|
Checkups this office reported
Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.
- Medicare’s overall office score
- 76.5 / 100
- Scores the office’s reporting and systems. It is not a grade for how the doctor treats you.
Professional record
- NPI
- 1497118921
- Licence
- CA A151211California A151211: Current · expires 2029-02-28
- Trained
- Harvard Medical School, 2016
- Group
- Stanford Health Care
- Video visits
- Lists video visits
- Gender
- Male
More record details
- Sole proprietor
- No
- Taxonomy
- Psychiatry (2084P0800X)
- Mailing address
- 300 Pasteur Dr, Palo Alto, CA, 94304
- NPI first listed
- 2016-04-01
- NPI last updated
- 2024-04-30
- NPI record certified
- 2024-04-30
This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.
Extra NPI addresses: 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA, 94305