Armin J Bandari, MD

2 locations · Pacific Central Coast Health Centers · 247 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: French Hospital Medical Center · Marian Regional Medical Center. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

Licence A105051 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2008 · expires 2027-09-30 · Rush Medical College of Rush University.

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

2 hospitals

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

• French Hospital Medical CenterSan Luis Obispo, 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 3 of 5 · 78% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 5 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.23, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Marian Regional Medical CenterSanta Maria, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Church · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of CommonSpirit Health, which runs 145 hospitals in 19 statesPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 68% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 3 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — CMS Medicare PSI 90: Patient safety and adverse events composite: 0.67 (0.37 to 0.96), Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.081, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$381,794

Medicare paid this office $381,794 for 1,716 people.

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

Who their Medicare patients are

1,716 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 77 · Under 65 3% · 85 and older 18% · Women 45% · Also on Medicaid 10% · Health risk score 1.36. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical cardiology clinician is at 1.71.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Atrial fibrillation 42% · Coronary heart disease 38% · Chronic kidney disease 29% · Heart failure 26% · Diabetes 25% · Depression 20% · Cancer 18% · COPD 16% · Stroke 12% · Dementia 6%.

The office billed $1,450,715, Medicare allowed $513,140 and paid $381,794; for 5,929 services of 61 kinds; $6,890 of it was for drugs given in the office and $374,905 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.

$1,772 in 2024

Medicaid paid $1,772 for 14 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 13 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.

$1,173,344

Pharmacies billed $1,173,344 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 4,251) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical cardiology clinician is at 0%.

3,391 generic and 860 brand-name prescriptions · $1,173,344 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.