Paul Joseph Braaton, MD

1 location

Hospitals listed: Doctors Medical Center · Memorial Medical Center · Oak Valley Hospital District. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

9 plans · 1 carrier

3 hospitals

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

• Doctors Medical CenterModesto, CAAcute Care Hospital · Proprietary · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Tenet Healthcare, which runs 77 hospitals in 12 statesPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 59% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 1 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — CMS Medicare PSI 90: Patient safety and adverse events composite: 1.36 (1.02 to 1.71), Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Pressure ulcer rate: 1.35 (0.81 to 1.9) · 6,296 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.281, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.326, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — SSI - Colon Surgery: 0.183, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Memorial Medical CenterModesto, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Sutter Health, which runs 27 hospitals in 2 statesPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 72% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 3 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.093, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.085, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Oak Valley Hospital DistrictOakdale, CAAcute Care Hospital · Government - Hospital District or Authority · Has an emergency department
  Overall rating: 1 of 5 starsNo measure marked better or worse than the national rate

$111,139

Medicare paid this office $111,139 for 149 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

149 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 72 · Under 65 17% · 85 and older 15% · Women 63% · Also on Medicaid 38% · Health risk score 2.00. Sicker patients than 9 in 10 peers; the typical orthopedic surgery clinician is at 1.13.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 42% · Chronic kidney disease 36% · Coronary heart disease 30% · Depression 30% · COPD 26% · Atrial fibrillation 26% · Heart failure 24% · Cancer 12% · Dementia 12% · Stroke 9%.

The office billed $242,548, Medicare allowed $143,956 and paid $111,139; for 942 services of 116 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.

$13,371 in 2024

Medicaid paid $13,371 for 306 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 36 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.

$161,565

Pharmacies billed $161,565 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 11% of their Part D prescriptions (52 of 457) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical orthopedic surgery clinician is at 31%. Surgeons prescribe little besides pain medicine after an operation, so their opioid share runs high.

383 generic and 74 brand-name prescriptions · $161,565 in drug cost · 54 antibiotic prescriptions to 24 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.

$1,554 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.

NPI

1538117056

Licence

CA 00G840660

Trained

Creighton University School of Medicine, 1987 · 39 years ago

Gender

Male