Kurtis G Birch, MD
Neurosurgery · Santa Rosa
- 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
- Since medical school
- 16 years
- Boston University School of Medicine, 2010
Offices
1 location · Providence Medical Foundation · 1,461 clinicians in this group
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Hospitals listed: Providence Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. That is not proof they admit you there this week.
Plan participation
Not verified
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California Medical Board record
Licence A121149 · Current
Licensed to practise in California · since 2012 · expires 2028-05-31 · Boston University School of Medicine.
No disciplinary actions, convictions, malpractice judgments or citations in this record.
School, training and certification
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 Neurological Surgery - Neurological Surgery
Hospitals they work in
1 hospital
These rate the hospital, not this clinician. Most measures at most hospitals are no different from the national rate.
- Providence Santa Rosa Memorial HospitalSanta Rosa, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Providence, which runs 54 hospitals in 7 statesPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 69% would definitely recommend itOverall rating: 3 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.375, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
See every measure and the patient survey for Providence Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital
Behind the star rating — Deaths: 0 better, 8 the same, 0 worse of 8 measures. Safety: 1 better, 6 the same, 0 worse of 7 measures. Readmissions: 1 better, 9 the same, 1 worse of 11 measures. The star rating is worked out from an earlier period than the measures below, so the two can disagree.
| Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff)Infections | 0.375 | Better | Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 |
| Abdominopelvic accidental puncture or laceration rateComplications and deaths | 1.19 (0.26 to 2.13) · 1,736 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| CMS Medicare PSI 90: Patient safety and adverse events compositeComplications and deaths | 0.76 (0.48 to 1.03) | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Death rate among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complicationsComplications and deaths | 181.27 (137.92 to 224.62) · 109 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Death rate for CABG surgery patientsComplications and deaths | 2.1 · 72 cases | None | Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 |
| Death rate for COPD patientsComplications and deaths | 8.8 · 129 cases | None | Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 |
| Death rate for heart attack patientsComplications and deaths | 12.3 · 226 cases | None | Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 |
| Death rate for heart failure patientsComplications and deaths | 11.2 · 530 cases | None | Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 |
| Death rate for pneumonia patientsComplications and deaths | 13.2 · 448 cases | None | Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 |
| Death rate for stroke patientsComplications and deaths | 8.3 · 245 cases | None | Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 |
| Hybrid Hospital-Wide All-Cause Risk Standardized Mortality RateComplications and deaths | 3.2 · 2,733 cases | None | Jul 2024 – Jun 2025 |
| Iatrogenic pneumothorax rateComplications and deaths | 0.22 (0.03 to 0.4) · 8,115 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| In-hospital fall-associated fracture rateComplications and deaths | 0.23 (0.04 to 0.41) · 8,057 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Perioperative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis rateComplications and deaths | 2.37 (0.56 to 4.18) · 2,186 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Postoperative acute kidney injury requiring dialysis rateComplications and deaths | 1.59 (0.1 to 3.08) · 772 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Postoperative hemorrhage or hematoma rateComplications and deaths | 2.27 (0.9 to 3.63) · 1,999 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Postoperative respiratory failure rateComplications and deaths | 5.74 (0.06 to 11.42) · 810 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Postoperative sepsis rateComplications and deaths | 4.04 (0.53 to 7.55) · 768 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Postoperative wound dehiscence rateComplications and deaths | 1.8 (0.38 to 3.21) · 401 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Pressure ulcer rateComplications and deaths | 0.46 (0 to 1) · 7,051 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Rate of complications for hip/knee replacement patientsComplications and deaths | 3.3 · 77 cases | None | Apr 2023 – Mar 2025 |
| Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards)Infections | 0.915 | No different | Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 |
| Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards)Infections | 0.552 | No different | Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 |
| MRSA BacteremiaInfections | 0.297 | No different | Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 |
| SSI - Colon SurgeryInfections | 1.353 | No different | Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 |
| Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) 30-Day Readmission RateUnplanned return visits | 13.1 · 288 cases | None | Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 |
| Heart failure (HF) 30-Day Readmission RateUnplanned return visits | 20.5 · 489 cases | None | Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 |
| Hospital return days for heart attack patientsUnplanned return visits | 0.4 · 259 cases | None | Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 |
| Hospital return days for heart failure patientsUnplanned return visits | -0.4 · 580 cases | None | Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 |
| Hospital return days for pneumonia patientsUnplanned return visits | 7.5 · 456 cases | None | Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 |
| Pneumonia (PN) 30-Day Readmission RateUnplanned return visits | 17.2 · 431 cases | None | Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 |
| Rate of emergency department (ED) visits for patients receiving outpatient chemotherapyUnplanned return visits | 6.4 (4.9 to 8.3) · 584 cases | No different | Jan 2024 – Dec 2024 |
| Rate of inpatient admissions for patients receiving outpatient chemotherapyUnplanned return visits | 10.3 (8.2 to 12.7) · 584 cases | No different | Jan 2024 – Dec 2024 |
| Rate of readmission after hip/knee replacementUnplanned return visits | 6.1 · 72 cases | None | Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 |
| Rate of readmission for CABGUnplanned return visits | 9.4 · 64 cases | None | Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 |
| Rate of readmission for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patientsUnplanned return visits | 20.2 · 133 cases | None | Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 |
| Rate of unplanned hospital visits after colonoscopy (per 1,000 colonoscopies)Unplanned return visits | 13.5 (10.8 to 16.7) · 2,810 cases | No different | Jan 2022 – Dec 2024 |
| Ratio of unplanned hospital visits after hospital outpatient surgeryUnplanned return visits | 1.2 (1 to 1.5) · 780 cases | No different | Jan 2024 – Dec 2024 |
What patients said (473 patients answered, 23% of those asked)
| Cleanliness | 4 |
| Nurse communication | 3 |
| Doctor communication | 2 |
| Communication about medicines | 2 |
| Discharge information | 3 |
| Overall hospital rating | 3 |
| Quietness | 1 |
| Recommend hospital | 4 |
| Room was "always" clean | 71% |
| Nurses "always" communicated well | 76% |
| Doctors "always" communicated well | 74% |
| Staff "always" explained | 56% |
| Yes, staff "did" give patients this information | 87% |
| Yes, staff "did" give patients information about help after discharge | 85% |
| Doctors "always" explained things so they could understand | 68% |
| Doctors "always" listened carefully | 72% |
| Doctors "always" treated them with courtesy and respect | 82% |
| Patients who gave a rating of "9" or "10" (high) | 66% |
| Staff "always" explained new medications | 68% |
| Nurses "always" explained things so they could understand | 72% |
| Nurses "always" listened carefully | 72% |
| Nurses "always" treated them with courtesy and respect | 85% |
| "Always" quiet at night | 37% |
| "YES", patients would definitely recommend the hospital | 69% |
| Staff "always" explained possible side effects | 45% |
| Yes, staff "did" give patients information about possible symptoms | 89% |
Original Medicare doctor bills
$80,622
Medicare paid this office $80,622 for 180 people.
This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.
| Initial hospital care with moderate level of medical decision making at least 75 minutes | 97 | $14,005 | $136 |
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 35 minutes | 63 | $7,879 | $63 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 45 | $3,639 | $76 |
| Initial hospital care with straightforward or low-level medical decision making at least 55 minutes | 13 | $1,388 | $107 |
| New patient visit (30+ min) | 11 | $959 | $87 |
Procedures Medicare counted
| Laminectomy or laminotomy (partial removal of spine bones) | 12 | More than 36% of doctors who do this |
| Spinal fusion | 18 | More than 35% of doctors who do this |
Procedures year by year
| Procedure | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Removal of skull bone for aspiration of blood accumulation in upper brain outside or below brain membrane | 16 | – | – | – | – | – |
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
180 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 77 · Under 65 8% · 85 and older 21% · Women 50% · Also on Medicaid 36% · Health risk score 1.80. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical neurosurgery clinician is at 1.46.
Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Stroke 43% · Depression 37% · Atrial fibrillation 36% · Coronary heart disease 34% · Diabetes 30% · Heart failure 29% · Chronic kidney disease 27% · COPD 27% · Cancer 17% · Dementia 15%.
The office billed $335,084, Medicare allowed $102,907 and paid $80,622; for 391 services of 34 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 | 180 | 391 | 77 | 1.80 | $335,084 | $80,622 |
| 2023 | 192 | 385 | 77 | 1.94 | $254,697 | $73,942 |
| 2022 | 201 | 439 | 77 | 1.82 | $333,296 | $98,321 |
| 2021 | 256 | 522 | 77 | 1.79 | $375,986 | $94,947 |
| 2020 | 235 | 532 | 76 | 1.91 | $359,463 | $90,813 |
| 2019 | 296 | 793 | 76 | 1.77 | $599,899 | $146,327 |
| 2018 | 339 | 840 | 75 | 1.84 | $774,775 | $160,245 |
| 2017 | 327 | 750 | 73 | 1.64 | $780,494 | $158,893 |
| 2016 | 90 | 192 | 75 | 1.35 | $189,361 | $36,740 |
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: 3 services
| Initial hospital care with moderate level of medical decision making at least 75 minutes | 118 | $17,271 | $142 |
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 35 minutes | 74 | $8,453 | $66 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 45 | $3,445 | $73 |
2022: 3 services
| Initial hospital care with moderate level of medical decision making at least 75 minutes | 111 | $19,134 | $164 |
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 35 minutes | 81 | $7,555 | $58 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 39 | $3,340 | $76 |
2021: 4 services
| Initial hospital care with straightforward or low-level medical decision making at least 55 minutes | 124 | $13,946 | $109 |
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 35 minutes | 105 | $10,589 | $61 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 54 | $4,555 | $75 |
| Initial hospital care with straightforward or low level of medical decision making, per day at least 40 minutes | 25 | $2,058 | $82 |
2020: 4 services
| Initial hospital care with straightforward or low-level medical decision making at least 55 minutes | 139 | $15,509 | $110 |
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 35 minutes | 117 | $13,218 | $61 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 47 | $2,964 | $55 |
| Initial hospital care with moderate level of medical decision making at least 75 minutes | 15 | $2,597 | $173 |
2019: 5 services
| Removal of skull bone for aspiration of blood accumulation in upper brain outside or below brain membrane | 13 | $25,971 | $1,623 |
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 35 minutes | 153 | $20,695 | $60 |
| Initial hospital care with straightforward or low-level medical decision making at least 55 minutes | 174 | $20,349 | $110 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 65 | $4,712 | $61 |
| New patient visit (45+ min) | 14 | $1,562 | $112 |
2018: 6 services
| Initial hospital care with straightforward or low-level medical decision making at least 55 minutes | 143 | $15,300 | $102 |
| New patient visit (45+ min) | 105 | $12,097 | $115 |
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 35 minutes | 75 | $11,406 | $58 |
| Partial removal of spine bone with release of spinal cord and/or nerves, each additional segment | 16 | $4,970 | $166 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 59 | $4,003 | $55 |
| Subsequent hospital care with straightforward or low level of medical decision making, per day at least 25 minutes | 39 | $1,857 | $31 |
2017: 9 services
| New patient visit (45+ min) | 114 | $14,282 | $125 |
| Initial hospital care with straightforward or low-level medical decision making at least 55 minutes | 132 | $13,897 | $105 |
| Partial removal of spine bone with release of lower spinal cord and/or nerves, 1 segment | 12 | $7,584 | $632 |
| Placement of stabilizing device to back, 3-6 spine bone segments | 12 | $7,350 | $613 |
| Partial removal of spine bone with release of spinal cord and/or nerves, each additional segment | 15 | $6,944 | $169 |
| Subsequent hospital care with straightforward or low level of medical decision making, per day at least 25 minutes | 95 | $4,755 | $31 |
| New patient visit (30+ min) | 45 | $4,005 | $89 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 41 | $2,487 | $57 |
| Return visit (30+ min) | 16 | $1,423 | $89 |
2016: 5 services
| New patient visit (45+ min) | 22 | $2,961 | $135 |
| Subsequent hospital care with straightforward or low level of medical decision making, per day at least 25 minutes | 28 | $1,942 | $31 |
| Initial hospital care with straightforward or low level of medical decision making, per day at least 40 minutes | 23 | $1,867 | $78 |
| Initial hospital care with straightforward or low-level medical decision making at least 55 minutes | 16 | $1,772 | $111 |
| New patient visit (30+ min) | 15 | $1,326 | $88 |
Medicaid work
$1,057 in 2019
Medicaid paid $1,057 for 24 billed services this clinician did in 2019, up to 12 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.
| SBSQ HOSPITAL IP/OBS CARE MOD MDM 35 MINUTES | 24 | $1,057 |
| 2019 | 24 | 1 | 12 | $1,057 |
| 2018 | 30 | 1 | 18 | $3,907 |
See the largest Medicaid services in earlier years
2018
| OFF/OP CNSLTJ NEW/EST MOD 40 | 30 | $3,907 |
Drugs they prescribed that Part D paid
$3,139
Pharmacies billed $3,139 in 2024.
This is pharmacy cost, not the office bill, and not what patients paid.
104 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $3,139 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.
| Gabapentin | 19 | $300 | $16 |
| Methocarbamol | 15 | $132 | $9 |
| Tizanidine | 16 | $30 | $2 |
Year by year
| 2024 | 107 | 32 | None | None | $3,139 |
| 2023 | 109 | 36 | 15% (16) | None | $4,717 |
| 2022 | 93 | 31 | None | None | $4,923 |
| 2021 | 90 | 30 | None | None | $1,681 |
| 2020 | 78 | 30 | None | None | $1,120 |
| 2019 | 419 | 199 | 38% (157) | None | $5,179 |
| 2018 | 772 | 325 | 35% (267) | None | $14,527 |
| 2017 | 511 | 205 | 38% (194) | 5% | $11,403 |
| 2016 | 231 | 120 | 47% (109) | None | $7,494 |
| 2015 | 93 | 48 | 50% (46) | None | $1,900 |
Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.
See the drugs prescribed each year
2023: 3 drugs
| Celecoxib | 20 | $591 | $30 |
| Levetiracetam | 13 | $442 | $34 |
| Gabapentin | 18 | $377 | $21 |
2022: 2 drugs
| Tizanidine | 14 | $183 | $13 |
| Gabapentin | 11 | $139 | $13 |
2021: 2 drugs
| Gabapentin | 14 | $205 | $15 |
| Methocarbamol | 14 | $69 | $5 |
2020: 3 drugs
| Gabapentin | 14 | $252 | $18 |
| Diclofenac | 12 | $206 | $17 |
| Tizanidine | 14 | $154 | $11 |
2019: 7 drugs
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen | 104 | $655 | $6 |
| Tizanidine | 31 | $516 | $17 |
| Gabapentin | 26 | $246 | $9 |
| Methocarbamol | 24 | $160 | $7 |
| Cephalexin | 26 | $129 | $5 |
| Tramadol | 31 | $113 | $4 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-Trimethoprim | 26 | $88 | $3 |
2018: 18 drugs
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen | 186 | $1,391 | $7 |
| Cyclobenzaprine | 24 | $1,154 | $48 |
| Tizanidine | 53 | $848 | $16 |
| Oxycodone-Acetaminophen | 23 | $449 | $20 |
| Gabapentin | 59 | $435 | $7 |
| Diclofenac | 23 | $405 | $18 |
| Baclofen | 31 | $396 | $13 |
| Oxycodone | 24 | $334 | $14 |
| Tamsulosin | 17 | $279 | $16 |
| Cephalexin | 39 | $222 | $6 |
| Levetiracetam | 11 | $211 | $19 |
| Levofloxacin | 13 | $191 | $15 |
| Methylprednisolone | 12 | $156 | $13 |
| Ciprofloxacin | 31 | $149 | $5 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-Trimethoprim | 38 | $141 | $4 |
| Methocarbamol | 12 | $65 | $5 |
| Tramadol | 21 | $59 | $3 |
| Trazodone | 14 | $34 | $2 |
2017: 14 drugs
| Diclofenac | 41 | $923 | $23 |
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen | 98 | $849 | $9 |
| Oxycodone-Acetaminophen | 37 | $708 | $19 |
| Oxycodone | 34 | $601 | $18 |
| Levetiracetam | 22 | $559 | $25 |
| Ondansetron Odt | 16 | $311 | $19 |
| Cyclobenzaprine | 18 | $308 | $17 |
| Tamsulosin | 16 | $284 | $18 |
| Tizanidine | 22 | $252 | $11 |
| Topiramate | 11 | $133 | $12 |
| Gabapentin | 20 | $119 | $6 |
| Methocarbamol | 13 | $96 | $7 |
| Baclofen | 15 | $93 | $6 |
| Tramadol | 12 | $59 | $5 |
2016: 5 drugs
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen | 64 | $1,042 | $16 |
| Levetiracetam | 23 | $903 | $39 |
| Oxycodone-Acetaminophen | 14 | $593 | $42 |
| Oxycodone | 13 | $169 | $13 |
| Tizanidine | 12 | $164 | $14 |
2015: 2 drugs
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen | 26 | $361 | $14 |
| Oxycodone | 11 | $184 | $17 |
Money from drug and device companies
$23 in 2023
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | None | $23 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | None | $25 |
| 2020 | 2 | 2 | None | $58 |
| 2019 | 4 | 4 | None | $204 |
Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.
A payment is not proof that care is biased.
| Medtronic | Catalyft Pl Expandable Interbody System | $23 | 1 payment
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See the published payment
| Medtronic | Meals · 2023-02-17 | Catalyft Pl Expandable Interbody System | $23 |
See earlier years (2022, 2020, 2019)
2022: $25
| Ethicon US | Stratafix | $25 | 1 payment
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2020: $58
| NuVasive | Osteocel | $33 | 1 payment
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| Zimmer Biomet Holdings | Biomet Spinalpak | $25 | 1 payment
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2019: $204
| Haemonetics | Teg | $97 | 1 payment
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| KARL STORZ Endoscopy-America | Custom Contract Cam Laparoscopy | $49 | 1 payment
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| Foundation Medicine | Foundationone | $35 | 1 payment
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| Ethicon US | Surgiflo Hemostatic Matrix Family of Products | $23 | 1 payment
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Professional record
- NPI
- 1659781565
- Licence
- CA A121149California A121149: Current · expires 2028-05-31
- Trained
- Boston University School of Medicine, 2010 · 16 years ago
- Video visits
- Lists video visits
- Gender
- Male
More record details
- Sole proprietor
- No
- Taxonomy
- Federal specialty code 207T00000X (207T00000X)
- Mailing address
- Po Box 512717, Los Angeles, CA, 90051
- NPI first listed
- 2014-04-30
- NPI last updated
- 2021-10-15
- NPI record certified
- 2021-10-15
This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.
This office lists an electronic records connection.