Rachana M Palnitkar, MD

1 location

Hospitals listed: 757662 · El Camino Health · Good Samaritan Hospital · Sequoia Hospital. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

29 plans · 8 carriers

Licence A111367 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2010 · expires 2028-03-31 · University of Mumbai, Topiwala National Medical College.

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

3 hospitals

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

• El Camino HealthMountain View, CAAcute Care Hospital · Government - Hospital District or Authority · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of El Camino Health, which runs 2 hospitalsPatients rate it 4 of 5 · 80% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.291, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.393, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — MRSA Bacteremia: 0, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Good Samaritan HospitalSan Jose, CAAcute Care Hospital · Proprietary · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of HCA Healthcare, which runs 185 hospitals in 19 statesPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 67% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 2 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.337, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Sequoia HospitalRedwood City, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of CommonSpirit Health, which runs 145 hospitals in 19 statesPatients rate it 4 of 5 · 81% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 5 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Death rate among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complications: 104.12 (51.8 to 156.44) · 56 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$200,722

Medicare paid this office $200,722 for 540 people.

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

Who their Medicare patients are

540 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 78 · Under 65 5% · 85 and older 26% · Women 49% · Also on Medicaid 31% · Health risk score 2.79. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical infectious disease clinician is at 3.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 55% · Chronic kidney disease 53% · Heart failure 52% · Coronary heart disease 51% · Atrial fibrillation 45% · Depression 33% · Dementia 31% · COPD 30% · Cancer 23% · Stroke 20%.

The office billed $350,069, Medicare allowed $255,953 and paid $200,722; for 1,882 services of 10 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.

$5,453 in 2024

Medicaid paid $5,453 for 302 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 23 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.

$131,858

Pharmacies billed $131,858 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 423) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical infectious disease clinician is at 0%.

373 generic and 50 brand-name prescriptions · $131,858 in drug cost · 322 antibiotic prescriptions to 74 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.

$125 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.

7 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
• COVID-19 Vaccine Achievement for Practice Staff
• Did a security review of patient data
• High Priority Practices Guide of the Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (SAFER) Guides
• ONC-ACB Surveillance Attestation
• Provide 24/7 Access to MIPS Eligible Clinicians or Groups Who Have Real-Time Access to Patient's Medical Record
• Records advance care plans
• Exempt from electronic case reporting
• Exempt from immunization registry reporting
• Exempt from query of the prescription drug monitoring program (pdmp)
• Exempt from support electronic referral loops by receiving and reconciling health information
• Exempt from support electronic referral loops by sending health information

NPI

1508050790

Licence

CA A111367California A111367: Current · expires 2028-03-31

Video visits

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Gender

Male