David M Bell, MD

2 locations · Bass Medical Group · 292 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley · Washington Hospital. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

4 plans · 2 carriers

Licence A51438 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 1992 · expires 2028-07-31 · Baylor College of Medicine.

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

Surgery centers they own

• Hacienda Outpatient Surgery Center, LLCAmbulatory Surgery Center · Pleasanton, CA5% owner since 2008 · accredited by AAAHC
  Accreditation Renewed7 inspections, 5 with deficiencies · last 2025-04-03: Requirements Met

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 Orthopaedic Surgery - Orthopaedic Sports Medicine
• American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery - Orthopaedic Surgery

2 hospitals

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

• Stanford Health Care Tri-ValleyPleasanton, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Stanford Health Care, which runs 3 hospitalsPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 74% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 5 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.178, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.237, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Washington HospitalFremont, CAAcute Care Hospital · Government - Hospital District or Authority · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Washington Hospital Healthcare SystemPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 71% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 2 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.188, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.164, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$167,347

Medicare paid this office $167,347 for 286 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

286 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 74 · Women 55% · Health risk score 0.75. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical orthopedic surgery clinician is at 1.13.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 65% · Coronary heart disease 19% · Atrial fibrillation 17% · Diabetes 16% · Cancer 15% · Chronic kidney disease 12% · Depression 9% · Heart failure 6% · COPD 5%.

The office billed $701,872, Medicare allowed $221,047 and paid $167,347; for 9,869 services of 35 kinds; $64,160 of it was for drugs given in the office and $103,187 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.

$816

Pharmacies billed $816 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 35% of their Part D prescriptions (46 of 133) in 2024. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical orthopedic surgery clinician is at 31%. Surgeons prescribe little besides pain medicine after an operation, so their opioid share runs high.

133 generic and 0 brand-name prescriptions · $816 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.

$588 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

1619916293

Licence

CA A51438California A51438: Current · expires 2028-07-31

Trained

Baylor College of Medicine, 1991 · 35 years ago

Group

Bass Medical Group

Video visits

Lists video visits

Gender

Male