Susannah Ford Empson, MD

7 locations · Regents of the Univ of CA Emer Med · UCLA Associated General Surgeons · Antelope Valley Emergency Medical Associates Inc · Av Critical Care Inc · Stanford Health Care

Hospitals listed: Antelope Valley Hospital · Lac/Harbor-UCLA Med Center · Stanford Health Care. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

Licence A145532 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2016 · expires 2028-08-31 · University of California San Francisco School of Medicine.

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.

• Antelope Valley HospitalLancaster, CAAcute Care Hospital · Government - Hospital District or Authority · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Antelope Valley Medical CenterPatients rate it 1 of 5 · 44% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 1 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.414, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Lac/Harbor-UCLA Med CenterTorrance, CAAcute Care Hospital · Government - Local · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, which runs 4 hospitalsPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 61% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 1 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — CMS Medicare PSI 90: Patient safety and adverse events composite: 1.4 (1.03 to 1.76), Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Perioperative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis rate: 6.19 (3.89 to 8.48) · 636 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.418, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Stanford Health CareStanford, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency departmentPart of Stanford Health Care, which runs 3 hospitalsHome of Stanford Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute designated comprehensive cancer centrePatients rate it 4 of 5 · 83% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 5 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Perioperative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis rate: 5.31 (4.24 to 6.37) · 8,661 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Rate of inpatient admissions for patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy: 14.1 (12.7 to 15.7) · 2,191 cases, Jan 2024 – Dec 2024Better than the national rate — Postoperative respiratory failure rate: 4.08 (1.95 to 6.21) · 5,296 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.317, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.446, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — SSI - Colon Surgery: 0.241, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Ratio of unplanned hospital visits after hospital outpatient surgery: 0.7 (0.6 to 0.9) · 3,348 cases, Jan 2024 – Dec 2024

$55,592

Medicare paid this office $55,592 for 291 people.

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

Who their Medicare patients are

291 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 72 · Under 65 22% · 85 and older 14% · Women 53% · Also on Medicaid 65% · Health risk score 3.12. Sicker patients than 9 in 10 peers; the typical emergency medicine clinician is at 2.01.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 58% · Heart failure 51% · Coronary heart disease 50% · Chronic kidney disease 46% · COPD 39% · Atrial fibrillation 35% · Depression 35% · Stroke 34% · Dementia 27% · Cancer 17%.

The office billed $354,612, Medicare allowed $70,751 and paid $55,592; for 490 services of 33 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.

$100,660 in 2024

Medicaid paid $100,660 for 941 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 42 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.

$2,607

Pharmacies billed $2,607 in 2024.

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

128 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $2,607 in drug cost · 50 antibiotic prescriptions to 48 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.

NPI

1588046510

Licence

CA A145532California A145532: Current · expires 2028-08-31

Trained

University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, 2015

Group

Regents of the Univ of CA Emer Med · UCLA Associated General Surgeons · Antelope Valley Emergency Medical Associates Inc · Av Critical Care Inc · Stanford Health Care

Gender

Female