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Ellen M Brown, MD

Hospice and Palliative Medicine · Sunnyvale

NPI 1710109699

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 Dr. Brown’s office at (408) 730-5900 to ask if they take your plan before you enroll.

California Medical Board record

Licence G57759 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 1986 · expires 2027-12-31 · Brown University Program in Medicine.

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

Original Medicare doctor bills

$16,431

Medicare paid this office $16,431 for 39 people.

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

Largest Original Medicare bills
Long return visit (40+ min)19$7,217$176
New patient visit (60+ min)24$5,097$212
Advance care planning, first 30 minutes23$2,290$82
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 or11$500$33

Who their Medicare patients are

39 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 76 · Women 67% · Also on Medicaid 44% · Health risk score 2.44. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical hospice and palliative care clinician is at 2.98.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Depression 44% · COPD 38% · Diabetes 36% · Coronary heart disease 36% · Heart failure 33% · Cancer 33% · Atrial fibrillation 33% · Chronic kidney disease 28% · Dementia 28%.

The office billed $71,089, Medicare allowed $21,227 and paid $16,431; for 119 services of 11 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

Original Medicare by year
202439119762.44$71,089$16,431
20232454743.06$32,754$7,898

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: 2 services

Original Medicare services billed in 2023
Long return visit (40+ min)12$3,099$182
New patient visit (60+ min)13$2,907$224

Professional record

NPI
1710109699
Licence
CA G57759California G57759: Current · expires 2027-12-31
More record details
Sole proprietor
Yes
Taxonomy
Federal specialty code 207RH0002X (207RH0002X)
Mailing address
585 N Mary Ave, Sunnyvale, CA, 94085
NPI first listed
2007-05-02
NPI last updated
2007-07-08

This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.