Ahmad M Tarakji, MD
Thoracic Surgery · Fresno
- Medicare standing
- Clear
- Enrolled, allowed to bill and order, not excluded
- Plans that list them
- Not verified
- Not the same as out of network.
- Offices
- 2
- Since medical school
- 27 years
- Graduated 1999
Offices
2 locations · Permanente Medical Group Inc · 10,928 clinicians in this group
Plan participation
Not verified
We could not verify current plan participation for this doctor. This does not mean they are out of network. Call Dr. Tarakji’s office to ask if they take your plan before you enroll.
California Medical Board record
Licence A115098 · Current
Licensed to practise in California · since 2010 · expires 2026-11-30 · University of Aleppo Faculty of Medicine.
No disciplinary actions, convictions, malpractice judgments or citations in this record.
School, training and certification
What this clinician told their state board, medical school and everything before it. Only some states publish this, so nothing here means the state does not say, not that there was no training or certification.
Specialty certification
- American Board of Surgery - Surgery
- American Board of Thoracic Surgery - Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery
Original Medicare doctor bills
$3,486
Medicare paid this office $3,486 for 15 people.
This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.
Who their Medicare patients are
15 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 72 · Health risk score 2.59. Sicker patients than 9 in 10 peers; the typical thoracic surgery clinician is at 1.74.
Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75%.
The office billed $19,401, Medicare allowed $4,543 and paid $3,486; for 28 services of 18 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
| 2024 | 15 | 28 | 72 | 2.59 | $19,401 | $3,486 |
| 2023 | 11 | 21 | 68 | 4.42 | $121,188 | $3,657 |
| 2020 | 17 | 31 | 67 | 3.87 | $17,373 | $4,184 |
| 2019 | 13 | 22 | 62 | 3.30 | $12,789 | $3,219 |
| 2018 | 17 | 29 | 64 | 3.58 | $16,893 | $3,861 |
| 2017 | 15 | 26 | 58 | 4.20 | $17,255 | $4,179 |
| 2014 | 38 | 106 | 70 | 3.41 | $190,650 | $17,106 |
| 2013 | 23 | 59 | 74 | 1.94 | $143,797 | $7,187 |
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.
Drugs they prescribed that Part D paid
$18,503
Pharmacies billed $18,503 in 2024.
This is pharmacy cost, not the office bill, and not what patients paid.
Opioids were 33% of their Part D prescriptions (64 of 196) in 2024. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical thoracic surgery clinician is at 2%. Surgeons prescribe little besides pain medicine after an operation, so their opioid share runs high.
163 generic and 33 brand-name prescriptions · $18,503 in drug cost · 38 antibiotic prescriptions to 23 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.
| Xarelto | 17 | $10,579 | $622 |
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen | 50 | $481 | $10 |
| Clopidogrel | 20 | $329 | $16 |
| Lidocaine | 13 | $169 | $13 |
Year by year
| 2024 | 196 | 91 | 33% (64) | 17% | $18,503 |
| 2023 | 168 | 95 | 39% (65) | 8% | $5,873 |
| 2022 | 227 | 104 | 34% (77) | 7% | $9,750 |
| 2021 | 193 | 92 | 29% (56) | 6% | $10,301 |
| 2020 | 170 | 62 | 19% (33) | 8% | $4,897 |
| 2019 | 132 | 58 | 10% (13) | 12% | $3,644 |
| 2018 | 158 | 92 | 19% (30) | 10% | $4,812 |
| 2017 | 257 | 117 | 32% (83) | 6% | $7,763 |
| 2016 | 177 | 102 | 34% (60) | None | $4,693 |
| 2015 | 166 | 89 | 34% (56) | 8% | $4,585 |
| 2014 | 126 | 65 | 36% (45) | None | $3,873 |
| 2013 | 154 | 83 | 42% (65) | None | $3,709 |
Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.
See the drugs prescribed each year
2023: 3 drugs
| Santyl | 11 | $3,575 | $325 |
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen | 57 | $482 | $8 |
| Clopidogrel | 18 | $310 | $17 |
2022: 4 drugs
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen | 57 | $522 | $9 |
| Clopidogrel | 32 | $471 | $15 |
| Gabapentin | 12 | $148 | $12 |
| Cephalexin | 13 | $141 | $11 |
2021: 4 drugs
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen | 46 | $406 | $9 |
| Gabapentin | 22 | $397 | $18 |
| Clopidogrel | 23 | $391 | $17 |
| Ciprofloxacin | 11 | $146 | $13 |
2020: 4 drugs
| Clopidogrel | 35 | $627 | $18 |
| Gabapentin | 16 | $382 | $24 |
| Cephalexin | 13 | $164 | $13 |
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen | 16 | $151 | $9 |
2019: 3 drugs
| Clopidogrel | 24 | $450 | $19 |
| Gabapentin | 15 | $438 | $29 |
| Ciprofloxacin | 13 | $153 | $12 |
2018: 5 drugs
| Clopidogrel | 26 | $632 | $24 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate Potass | 23 | $459 | $20 |
| Gabapentin | 14 | $371 | $26 |
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen | 27 | $221 | $8 |
| Ibuprofen | 13 | $155 | $12 |
2017: 7 drugs
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen | 63 | $1,059 | $17 |
| Clopidogrel | 41 | $988 | $24 |
| Cilostazol | 19 | $674 | $35 |
| Clindamycin | 13 | $275 | $21 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate Potass | 13 | $258 | $20 |
| Ibuprofen | 12 | $224 | $19 |
| Lidocaine | 11 | $178 | $16 |
2016: 4 drugs
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen | 52 | $1,211 | $23 |
| Clopidogrel | 36 | $897 | $25 |
| Cilostazol | 13 | $521 | $40 |
| Acetylcysteine | 13 | $293 | $23 |
2015: 3 drugs
| Clopidogrel | 31 | $1,181 | $38 |
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen | 45 | $972 | $22 |
| Clindamycin | 12 | $324 | $27 |
2014: 4 drugs
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen | 42 | $867 | $21 |
| Clopidogrel | 17 | $741 | $44 |
| Acetylcysteine | 16 | $474 | $30 |
| Clindamycin | 12 | $353 | $29 |
2013: 3 drugs
| Clopidogrel | 15 | $909 | $61 |
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen | 59 | $840 | $14 |
| Clindamycin | 12 | $442 | $37 |
Money from drug and device companies
$763 in 2025
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | None | $763 |
| 2024 | 1 | 2 | None | $197 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | None | $19 |
Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.
A payment is not proof that care is biased.
| W. L. Gore & Associates | Gore Tag Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis | $763 | 1 payment
|
See the published payment
| W. L. Gore & Associates | Travel · 2025-10-24 | Gore Tag Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis | $763 |
See earlier years (2024, 2019)
2024: $197
| W. L. Gore & Associates | Gore Tag Thoracic Endoprosthesis | $197 | 2 payments
|
2019: $19
| LeMaitre Vascular | Procol | $19 | 1 payment
|
Professional record
- NPI
- 1588868020
- Licence
- CA A115098California A115098: Current · expires 2026-11-30
- Gender
- Male
More record details
- Sole proprietor
- No
- Taxonomy
- Thoracic surgery (208G00000X)
- Mailing address
- 2690 Hanover St, Palo Alto, CA, 94304
- NPI first listed
- 2007-06-11
- NPI last updated
- 2021-12-15
This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.
This office lists an electronic records connection.