Susan Thomas, NP
Nurse Practitioner · Palo Alto
- Medicare standing
- Clear
- Enrolled, allowed to bill and order, not excluded
- Plans that list them
- Not verified
- Not the same as out of network.
- Office
- 1
Offices
1 location
Plan participation
Not verified
We could not verify current plan participation for this doctor. This does not mean they are out of network. Call Susan Thomas’s office at (650) 497-8000 to ask if they take your plan before you enroll.
Original Medicare doctor bills
$7,925
Medicare paid this office $7,925 for 126 people.
This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.
| New patient visit (30+ min) | 52 | $2,142 | $41 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 39 | $1,567 | $39 |
| New patient visit (45+ min) | 12 | $877 | $73 |
| Comprehensive hearing and speech recognition test | 47 | $808 | $17 |
| Return visit (30+ min) | 13 | $670 | $48 |
See all 8 services
| New patient visit (30+ min) | 52 | $2,142 | $41 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 39 | $1,567 | $39 |
| New patient visit (45+ min) | 12 | $877 | $73 |
| Comprehensive hearing and speech recognition test | 47 | $808 | $17 |
| Return visit (30+ min) | 13 | $670 | $48 |
| Test to assess middle ear function | 53 | $429 | $8 |
| Removal of impacted ear wax | 19 | $366 | $19 |
| Short return visit | 18 | $352 | $20 |
Procedures year by year
| Procedure | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Removal of impacted ear wax | 48 | 19 |
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
126 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 75 · Women 56% · Also on Medicaid 12% · Health risk score 1.04. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical nurse practitioner clinician is at 1.42.
Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 40% · Coronary heart disease 37% · Depression 23% · Chronic kidney disease 22% · Atrial fibrillation 20% · Stroke 17% · COPD 14% · Heart failure 13% · Cancer 13%.
The office billed $39,438, Medicare allowed $15,517 and paid $7,925; for 271 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
| 2024 | 126 | 271 | 75 | 1.04 | $39,438 | $7,925 |
| 2023 | 162 | 438 | 75 | 1.12 | $62,636 | $19,137 |
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.
See the services billed each year
2023: 8 services
| New patient visit (30+ min) | 101 | $6,868 | $68 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 43 | $3,280 | $61 |
| Return visit (30+ min) | 16 | $1,718 | $86 |
| Comprehensive hearing and speech recognition test | 68 | $1,546 | $23 |
| Removal of impacted ear wax | 44 | $1,499 | $31 |
| New patient visit (45+ min) | 13 | $1,345 | $103 |
| Test to assess middle ear function | 80 | $877 | $10 |
| Removal of impacted cerumen (one or both ears) by physician on same date of service as audiologic function testing | 23 | $724 | $31 |
Medicaid work
$1,789 in 2024
Medicaid paid $1,789 for 49 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 19 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.
| New patient visit (30+ min) | 20 | $1,336 |
| Comprehensive audiometry threshold evaluation and speech recognition | 14 | $320 |
| TYMPANOMETRY | 15 | $133 |
| 2024 | 49 | 3 | 19 | $1,789 |
| 2023 | 382 | 4 | 38 | $15,524 |
See the largest Medicaid services in earlier years
2023
| New patient visit (30+ min) | 167 | $8,913 |
| New patient visit (45+ min) | 52 | $5,223 |
| TYMPANOMETRY | 118 | $788 |
| Comprehensive audiometry threshold evaluation and speech recognition | 45 | $600 |
Drugs they prescribed that Part D paid
$3,803
Pharmacies billed $3,803 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 199) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical nurse practitioner clinician is at 0%.
198 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $3,803 in drug cost · 16 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.
| Ipratropium | 35 | $1,755 | $27 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 20 | $422 | $9 |
| Azelastine | 11 | $237 | $11 |
| Methylprednisolone | 15 | $93 | $6 |
Year by year
| 2024 | 199 | 92 | 0% (0) | None | $3,803 |
| 2023 | 132 | 86 | 0% (0) | None | $3,887 |
Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.
See the drugs prescribed each year
2023: 5 drugs
| Ipratropium | 24 | $749 | $31 |
| Azelastine | 15 | $727 | $48 |
| Fluocinolone Acetonide Oil | 12 | $513 | $43 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 22 | $290 | $13 |
| Methylprednisolone | 13 | $90 | $7 |
Money from drug and device companies
$91 in 2024
| 2024 | 3 | 4 | None | $91 |
| 2023 | 4 | 13 | None | $352 |
Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.
A payment is not proof that care is biased.
| Genzyme | Dupixent | $39 | 2 payments
|
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions | Dupixent | $30 | 1 payment
|
| GlaxoSmithKline | Nucala | $22 | 1 payment
|
See all 4 published payments
| GlaxoSmithKline | Meals · 2024-03-06 | Nucala | $22 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions | Meals · 2024-02-15 | Dupixent | $30 |
| Genzyme | Meals · 2024-02-13 | Dupixent | $14 |
| Genzyme | Meals · 2024-01-08 | Dupixent | $25 |
See earlier years (2023)
2023: $352
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions | Dupixent | $178 | 4 payments
|
| GlaxoSmithKline | Nucala | $139 | 7 payments
|
| Genzyme | Dupixent | $18 | 1 payment
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| AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP | Airsupra | $16 | 1 payment
|
Professional record
- NPI
- 1639880321
- Licence
- NV 861919, NV RN99178
More record details
- Sole proprietor
- Yes
- Taxonomy
- Nurse practitioner (363L00000X); Federal specialty code 163W00000X (163W00000X); Federal specialty code 363LF0000X (363LF0000X)
- Mailing address
- 725 Welch Rd, Palo Alto, CA, 94304
- NPI first listed
- 2022-12-13
- NPI last updated
- 2024-07-02
- NPI record certified
- 2024-07-02
This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.
Extra NPI addresses: 3195 Saint Rose Pkwy Ste 210, Henderson, NV, 89052