Chelsea Hendow, MD

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

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

31 plans · 8 carriers

Licence A179264 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2022 · expires 2028-06-30 · New York 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.

• 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
• 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

$158,742

Medicare paid this office $158,742 for 359 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

Who their Medicare patients are

359 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 75 · Under 65 5% · 85 and older 14% · Women 62% · Also on Medicaid 15% · Health risk score 1.12. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical orthopedic surgery clinician is at 1.13.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 70% · Coronary heart disease 27% · Diabetes 26% · Depression 23% · Chronic kidney disease 18% · Atrial fibrillation 18% · Cancer 13% · Heart failure 12% · COPD 10% · Dementia 10% · Stroke 10%.

The office billed $710,385, Medicare allowed $203,109 and paid $158,742; for 1,076 services of 73 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.

$2,374 in 2024

Medicaid paid $2,374 for 30 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 18 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.

$3,134

Pharmacies billed $3,134 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 16% of their Part D prescriptions (47 of 290) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical orthopedic surgery clinician is at 31%.

290 generic and 0 brand-name prescriptions · $3,134 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.

Year by year

Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.

$135 in 2024

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

1568824860

Licence

CA A179264California A179264: Current · expires 2028-06-30

Trained

New York Medical College, 2016

Group

Golden State Orthopedics and Spine

Video visits

Lists video visits

Gender

Female