Zachary Alan Claunch, PA

2 locations · Golden State Orthopedics and Spine · 186 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: Dominican Hospital. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

3 plans · 1 carrier

Licence G63149 · Cancelled

Licence status: Cancelled · since 1988 · University of Colorado School of Medicine.

License has been voluntarily canceled, or the license has been expired for at least five years and has not been renewed. No practice is permitted.

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

1 hospital

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

• Dominican HospitalSanta Cruz, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of CommonSpirit Health, which runs 145 hospitals in 19 statesPatients rate it 4 of 5 · 68% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Postoperative sepsis rate: 11.66 (8.02 to 15.3) · 412 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.168, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.169, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.489, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$65,263

Medicare paid this office $65,263 for 337 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

Who their Medicare patients are

337 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 75 · Under 65 5% · 85 and older 12% · Women 67% · Also on Medicaid 19% · Health risk score 1.06. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical physician assistant clinician is at 1.31.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 70% · Diabetes 28% · Coronary heart disease 24% · Depression 23% · Chronic kidney disease 18% · Atrial fibrillation 17% · Heart failure 14% · Cancer 14% · COPD 7% · Dementia 7% · Stroke 6%.

The office billed $338,127, Medicare allowed $86,786 and paid $65,263; for 18,627 services of 56 kinds; $9,592 of it was for drugs given in the office and $55,671 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.

$1,086

Pharmacies billed $1,086 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 85% of their Part D prescriptions (151 of 178) in 2024. A higher opioid share than 9 in 10 peers; the typical physician assistant clinician is at 1%.

178 generic and 0 brand-name prescriptions · $1,086 in drug cost · 13 antibiotic prescriptions.

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.

$627 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.

NPI

1679264626

Licence

CA 63149California G63149: Cancelled

Trained

University of Florida College of Medicine, 2023

Group

Golden State Orthopedics and Spine

Gender

Male