Molly Estes, MD

4 locations · Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation · 4,386 clinicians in this group

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

Licence A131934 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2014 · expires 2028-05-31 · Loma Linda University School of Medicine. Board flags: Probation - Licensee Placed on Probation, Limitations on Practice.

Public record actions

Respondent made no admissions but was charged with gross negligence, repeated negligent acts, incompetence, and failing to maintain adequate and accurate medical records in the care and treatment of one patient. Acceptance of this stipulated settlement is not an admission of guilt. Effective 05/09/2025, revoked, stayed, placed on thirty-five months' probation until anticipated end date of 04/09/2028. Terms and conditions include, but are not limited to, completing education course and completing a medical record keeping course; completing a clinical competence assessment program; prohibited from engaging in the solo practice of medicine; submitting proof of notification of Decision and Accusation to required parties; reimbursing the Board its costs of investigation and enforcement in the amount of $31,170.19; submitting quarterly declarations of compliance with all conditions of probation; complying with the Board's probation unit; prohibited from engaging in the practice of medicine in Respondent's or patient's place of residence, unless the patient resides in a skilled nursing facility or other similar licensed facility; and paying costs associated with probation monitoring.

1 licence

• Illinois 036168482Licensed Physician And Surgeon · since 2024 · expires 2029-07-31
  ProbationProbation · case 2024002692 · 2025-07-16
  physician and surgeon license has been placed on indefinite probation and must comply with the State of California's April 2025 Board Decision due to negligent care and treatment of a patient.Check it with the state

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1 hospital

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

• Northwestern Memorial HospitalChicago, ILAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Northwestern Medicine, which runs 10 hospitalsHome of Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute designated comprehensive cancer centrePatients rate it 4 of 5 · 81% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 5 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Pressure ulcer rate: 1.26 (0.95 to 1.56) · 17,389 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — CMS Medicare PSI 90: Patient safety and adverse events composite: 0.74 (0.58 to 0.91), Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Postoperative respiratory failure rate: 1.71 (0 to 5.12) · 2,663 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Postoperative sepsis rate: 1.15 (0 to 3.19) · 2,766 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.609, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.392, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$46,683

Medicare paid this office $46,683 for 364 people.

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

Who their Medicare patients are

364 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 72 · Under 65 17% · 85 and older 13% · Women 55% · Also on Medicaid 40% · Health risk score 2.46. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical emergency medicine clinician is at 2.01.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Coronary heart disease 40% · Diabetes 39% · Chronic kidney disease 39% · Heart failure 38% · Depression 33% · Atrial fibrillation 29% · COPD 23% · Cancer 19% · Stroke 18% · Dementia 15%.

The office billed $184,591, Medicare allowed $60,885 and paid $46,683; for 418 services of 23 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 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.

$80,865 in 2024

Medicaid paid $80,865 for 823 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 63 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.

$2,705

Pharmacies billed $2,705 in 2024.

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

124 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $2,705 in drug cost · 33 antibiotic prescriptions to 28 people.

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.

$18 in 2025

A payment is not proof that care is biased.

Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.

NPI

1730522186

Licence

CA A131934, IL 036168482California A131934: Current · expires 2028-05-31Illinois 036168482: Probation

Trained

Loma Linda University School of Medicine, 2013

Group

Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation

Gender

Female