Ariel Palanca, MD

1 location · Arch Health Partners Inc · 141 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: Palomar Health Downtown Campus · Palomar Medical Center Poway. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

Licence A114257 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2010 · expires 2026-10-31 · University of Michigan Medical School.

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.

• Palomar Health Downtown CampusEscondido, CAAcute Care Hospital · Government - Hospital District or Authority · Has an emergency departmentPart of Palomar Health, which runs 3 hospitalsPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 66% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 3 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.399, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Palomar Medical Center PowayPoway, CAAcute Care Hospital · Government - Hospital District or Authority · Has an emergency departmentPart of Palomar Health, which runs 3 hospitalsPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 61% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsNo measure marked better or worse than the national rate

$154,803

Medicare paid this office $154,803 for 404 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

Who their Medicare patients are

404 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 74 · Under 65 5% · 85 and older 10% · Women 66% · Also on Medicaid 13% · Health risk score 1.13. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical orthopedic surgery clinician is at 1.13.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 68% · Depression 28% · Diabetes 23% · Chronic kidney disease 19% · Coronary heart disease 17% · Atrial fibrillation 17% · Heart failure 13% · Cancer 12% · COPD 12% · Dementia 6% · Stroke 6%.

The office billed $647,948, Medicare allowed $206,441 and paid $154,803; for 4,764 services of 124 kinds; $436 of it was for drugs given in the office and $154,367 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.

$13,242 in 2024

Medicaid paid $13,242 for 176 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 21 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.

$3,233

Pharmacies billed $3,233 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 36% of their Part D prescriptions (135 of 373) in 2024. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical orthopedic surgery clinician is at 31%.

371 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $3,233 in drug cost · 20 antibiotic prescriptions to 15 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.

$122,988 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.

Research money

Money a company paid to run a study. Where it went to their institution, the clinician is named as an investigator and did not receive it; the amount covers the whole study, often across many sites.

Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.

NPI

1629203971

Licence

CA A114257California A114257: Current · expires 2026-10-31

Trained

University of Michigan Medical School, 2004

Group

Arch Health Partners Inc

Video visits

Lists video visits

Gender

Female