Kenneth Mensch, MD

1 location · Golden State Orthopedics and Spine · 186 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: Dominican Hospital · Good Samaritan Hospital · Watsonville Community Hospital. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

32 plans · 8 carriers

Licence A172840 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2021 · expires 2027-05-31 · University of Vermont College of Medicine.

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

Surgery centers they own

• Monterey Peninsula Surgery Center Capitola, LLC dba Capitola Surgery CenterAmbulatory Surgery Center · Capitola, CA2.51% owner since 2023 · accredited by AAAHC
  Accreditation Renewed4 inspections, 1 with deficiencies · last 2025-01-08

3 hospitals

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

• Dominican HospitalSanta Cruz, 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 · 68% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Postoperative sepsis rate: 11.66 (8.02 to 15.3) · 412 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.168, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.169, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.489, 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
• Watsonville Community HospitalWatsonville, CAAcute Care Hospital · Proprietary · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 66% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 2 of 5 starsNo measure marked better or worse than the national rate

$237,784

Medicare paid this office $237,784 for 642 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

642 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 74 · Under 65 6% · 85 and older 12% · Women 63% · Also on Medicaid 20% · Health risk score 1.12. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical hand surgery clinician is at 1.08.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 68% · Diabetes 26% · Depression 22% · Coronary heart disease 21% · Atrial fibrillation 18% · Chronic kidney disease 16% · Cancer 13% · Heart failure 12% · COPD 9% · Stroke 6% · Dementia 5%.

The office billed $1,086,412, Medicare allowed $309,654 and paid $237,784; for 7,759 services of 130 kinds; $1,097 of it was for drugs given in the office and $236,687 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.

$153,346 in 2024

Medicaid paid $153,346 for 1,287 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 56 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.

$900

Pharmacies billed $900 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 58% of their Part D prescriptions (62 of 107) in 2024. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical hand surgery clinician is at 47%. Surgeons prescribe little besides pain medicine after an operation, so their opioid share runs high.

107 generic and 0 brand-name prescriptions · $900 in drug cost · 12 antibiotic prescriptions to 12 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.

$858 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

1538556576

Licence

CA A172840California A172840: Current · expires 2027-05-31

Trained

University of Vermont College of Medicine, 2015 · 11 years ago

Group

Golden State Orthopedics and Spine

Gender

Male