Neelima Kethineni, MD

6 locations · Sutter Bay Medical Foundation · 3,783 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: Alta Bates Summit Medical Center · Alta Bates Summit Medical Center - Alta Bates Camp. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

Licence A90570 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2005 · expires 2028-06-30 · Andhra University, Rangaraya Medical College Aka University of Health Sciences Vijayawada.

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

2 hospitals

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

• Alta Bates Summit Medical CenterOakland, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency departmentPart of Sutter Health, which runs 27 hospitals in 2 statesPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 78% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 5 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Death rate among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complications: 130.09 (87.72 to 172.46) · 109 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.274, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.227, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Alta Bates Summit Medical Center - Alta Bates CampBerkeley, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Sutter Health, which runs 27 hospitals in 2 statesPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 67% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.298, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$32,980

Medicare paid this office $32,980 for 178 people.

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

Who their Medicare patients are

178 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 70 · Under 65 26% · 85 and older 13% · Women 44% · Also on Medicaid 79% · Health risk score 3.08. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical infectious disease clinician is at 3.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 61% · Chronic kidney disease 54% · Heart failure 46% · Depression 35% · Coronary heart disease 31% · Atrial fibrillation 28% · COPD 26% · Stroke 18% · Cancer 17% · Dementia 17%.

The office billed $116,000, Medicare allowed $41,857 and paid $32,980; for 313 services of 13 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.

$10,663 in 2024

Medicaid paid $10,663 for 146 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 32 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.

$1,313,954

Pharmacies billed $1,313,954 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 0% of their Part D prescriptions (0 of 536) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical infectious disease clinician is at 0%.

173 generic and 363 brand-name prescriptions · $1,313,954 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.

$804 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

1629021662

Licence

CA A90570California A90570: Current · expires 2028-06-30

Group

Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Gender

Female