Nicholas Ahsan Abidi, MD

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

Hospitals listed: Dominican Hospital · El Camino Health · Watsonville Community Hospital. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

22 plans · 6 carriers

Licence G85551 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 1999 · expires 2027-09-30 · University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

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

Surgery centers they own

• Forest Surgery Center LPAmbulatory Surgery Center · San Jose, CAOwner · accredited by JC
  Accreditation Renewed1 inspection, 1 with deficiencies · last 2012-09-18: Requirements Met
• Monterey Peninsula Surgery Center Capitola, LLC dba Capitola Surgery CenterAmbulatory Surgery Center · Capitola, CA12.5% owner since 2012 · 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
• 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
• 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

$385,805

Medicare paid this office $385,805 for 702 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

Who their Medicare patients are

702 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 73 · Under 65 7% · 85 and older 9% · Women 64% · Also on Medicaid 18% · Health risk score 0.97. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical orthopedic surgery clinician is at 1.13.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 62% · Diabetes 22% · Depression 22% · Coronary heart disease 18% · Atrial fibrillation 14% · Chronic kidney disease 12% · Cancer 12% · Heart failure 9% · COPD 8% · Dementia 4% · Stroke 4%.

The office billed $1,877,846, Medicare allowed $503,426 and paid $385,805; for 38,534 services of 134 kinds; $18,393 of it was for drugs given in the office and $367,412 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.

$35,363 in 2024

Medicaid paid $35,363 for 376 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.

$6,732

Pharmacies billed $6,732 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 9% of their Part D prescriptions (22 of 246) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical orthopedic surgery clinician is at 31%.

246 generic and 0 brand-name prescriptions · $6,732 in drug cost · 43 antibiotic prescriptions to 33 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.

$3,380 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.

Research money

Money a company paid to run a study. Where it went to their institution, the clinician is named as an investigator and did not receive it; the amount covers the whole study, often across many sites.

Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.

NPI

1548273758

Licence

CA G85551California G85551: Current · expires 2027-09-30

Trained

Perelman School of Med at the University of Pennsylvania, 1991

Group

Golden State Orthopedics and Spine

Gender

Male