Kelly Sanders, MD
Hospice/Palliative Care · Boston
- 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 · Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. · 671 clinicians in this group
Hospitals listed: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. That is not proof they admit you there this week.
Plan participation
Not verified
We could not verify current plan participation for this doctor. This does not mean they are out of network. Call Dr. Sanders’s office to ask if they take your plan before you enroll.
California Medical Board record
Licence A157150 · Current
Licensed to practise in California · since 2018 · expires 2028-07-31 · University of California San Francisco School of Medicine.
No disciplinary actions, convictions, malpractice judgments or citations in this record.
Original Medicare doctor bills
$41,777
Medicare paid this office $41,777 for 107 people.
This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.
| Long return visit (40+ min) | 36 | $16,169 | $150 |
| New patient visit (60+ min) | 57 | $9,885 | $173 |
| Return visit (30+ min) | 14 | $3,095 | $107 |
| Prolonged office or other outpatient evaluation and management service(s) beyond the maximum required time of the primary procedure which has been selected using total time on the date of the primary service; each additional 15 minutes by the physician or | 46 | $2,142 | $26 |
| Initial hospital care with straightforward or low-level medical decision making at least 55 minutes | 16 | $1,890 | $105 |
See all 9 services
| Long return visit (40+ min) | 36 | $16,169 | $150 |
| New patient visit (60+ min) | 57 | $9,885 | $173 |
| Return visit (30+ min) | 14 | $3,095 | $107 |
| Prolonged office or other outpatient evaluation and management service(s) beyond the maximum required time of the primary procedure which has been selected using total time on the date of the primary service; each additional 15 minutes by the physician or | 46 | $2,142 | $26 |
| Initial hospital care with straightforward or low-level medical decision making at least 55 minutes | 16 | $1,890 | $105 |
| Initial hospital care with moderate level of medical decision making at least 75 minutes | 13 | $1,807 | $139 |
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 35 minutes | 13 | $1,079 | $63 |
| Advance care planning, first 30 minutes | 11 | $940 | $67 |
| Visit complexity inherent to evaluation and management associated with medical care services that serve as the continuing focal point for all needed health care services and/or with medical care services that are part of ongoing care related to a patient's | 20 | $940 | $13 |
Who their Medicare patients are
107 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 76 · Under 65 12% · 85 and older 27% · Women 54% · Also on Medicaid 30% · Health risk score 2.41. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical pediatric medicine clinician is at 1.4.
Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Heart failure 44% · Chronic kidney disease 44% · Cancer 40% · Coronary heart disease 38% · Atrial fibrillation 34% · Depression 34% · Diabetes 33% · COPD 30% · Dementia 28% · Stroke 22%.
The office billed $151,659, Medicare allowed $53,086 and paid $41,777; for 462 services of 20 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.
Medicaid work
$159,141 in 2021
Medicaid paid $159,141 for 567 billed services this clinician did in 2021, up to 78 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.
| Clinic visit/encounter, all-inclusive | 331 | $158,510 |
| Short return visit | 201 | $574 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 35 | $57 |
| 2021 | 567 | 3 | 78 | $159,141 |
| 2020 | 14 | 1 | 13 | $4,743 |
See the largest Medicaid services in earlier years
2020
| Clinic visit/encounter, all-inclusive | 14 | $4,743 |
Drugs they prescribed that Part D paid
$17,457
Pharmacies billed $17,457 in 2024.
This is pharmacy cost, not the office bill, and not what patients paid.
Opioids were 57% of their Part D prescriptions (151 of 263) in 2024. A higher opioid share than 9 in 10 peers; the typical pediatric medicine clinician is at 0%. Long-acting opioids: 44% of their opioid prescriptions.
234 generic and 29 brand-name prescriptions · $17,457 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.
| Fentanyl | 19 | $6,445 | $339 |
| Lidocaine | 20 | $1,658 | $83 |
| Morphine Sulfate Er | 26 | $546 | $21 |
| Oxycodone-Acetaminophen | 19 | $478 | $25 |
| Oxycodone | 32 | $465 | $15 |
See all 9 drugs
| Fentanyl | 19 | $6,445 | $339 |
| Lidocaine | 20 | $1,658 | $83 |
| Morphine Sulfate Er | 26 | $546 | $21 |
| Oxycodone-Acetaminophen | 19 | $478 | $25 |
| Oxycodone | 32 | $465 | $15 |
| Hydromorphone | 23 | $321 | $14 |
| Gabapentin | 17 | $161 | $9 |
| Methadone | 12 | $145 | $12 |
| Ondansetron | 11 | $64 | $6 |
Year by year
| 2024 | 263 | 63 | 57% (151) | 11% | $17,457 |
| 2023 | 17 | None | 77% (13) | 0% | $1,038 |
Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.
Money from drug and device companies
$27 in 2024
A payment is not proof that care is biased.
| Atricure | Atricure Cryoice Cryosphere Cryoablation System | $27 | 1 payment
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See the published payment
| Atricure | Meals · 2024-09-30 | Atricure Cryoice Cryosphere Cryoablation System | $27 |
Checkups this office reported
Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.
- Medicare’s overall office score
- 84.9 / 100
- Scores the office’s reporting and systems. It is not a grade for how the doctor treats you.
Professional record
- NPI
- 1669903480
- Licence
- CA A157150California A157150: Current · expires 2028-07-31
- Trained
- University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, 2017
- Video visits
- Lists video visits
- Gender
- Female
More record details
- Sole proprietor
- No
- Taxonomy
- Federal specialty code 2080H0002X (2080H0002X)
- Mailing address
- 450 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA, 02215
- NPI first listed
- 2017-03-23
- NPI last updated
- 2026-05-20
- NPI record certified
- 2026-05-20
This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.
Extra NPI addresses: 725 Welch Rd, Palo Alto, CA, 94304 · 795 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA, 94301