Walter H Burnham, MD

1 location · Huntington Orthopedic Surgical Group · 18 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: Huntington Hospital · USC Verdugo Hills Hospital. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

Licence A62133 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 1997 · expires 2028-12-31 · Loma Linda University School of Medicine.

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

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 Surgery

2 hospitals

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

• Huntington HospitalPasadena, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Other · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Cedars Sinai Health System, which runs 4 hospitalsPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 76% would definitely recommend it
  No overall ratingNo measure marked better or worse than the national rate
• USC Verdugo Hills HospitalGlendale, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of University of Southern California, which runs 4 hospitalsPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 65% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.19, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Ratio of unplanned hospital visits after hospital outpatient surgery: 0.7 (0.5 to 1) · 396 cases, Jan 2024 – Dec 2024

$310,457

Medicare paid this office $310,457 for 249 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

249 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 75 · Under 65 6% · 85 and older 16% · Women 66% · Also on Medicaid 43% · Health risk score 1.53. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical orthopedic surgery clinician is at 1.13.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 43% · Coronary heart disease 43% · Depression 37% · Chronic kidney disease 27% · Heart failure 26% · COPD 20% · Atrial fibrillation 16% · Cancer 14% · Dementia 13% · Stroke 12%.

The office billed $1,016,690, Medicare allowed $395,039 and paid $310,457; for 3,698 services of 122 kinds; $1,917 of it was for drugs given in the office and $308,540 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.

$7,621 in 2024

Medicaid paid $7,621 for 210 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.

$153,235

Pharmacies billed $153,235 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 33% of their Part D prescriptions (122 of 365) 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.

300 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $153,235 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.

$20,967 in 2025

Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.

• Farallon Surgical, LLC

  Published ownership

  $15,857

  Held by this doctor · 2019 · Stock Ownership · amount invested $100,000

Published ownership or investment in a drug or device company. This is not proof that care is biased.

A payment is not proof that care is biased.

Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.

NPI

1639221948

Licence

CA A62133California A62133: Current · expires 2028-12-31

Trained

Loma Linda University School of Medicine, 1995 · 31 years ago

Group

Huntington Orthopedic Surgical Group

Gender

Male