Alejo Santa Cruz, MD

5 locations · Sutter Bay Medical Foundation · 3,783 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: Alta Bates Summit Medical Center · Alta Bates Summit Medical Center - Alta Bates Camp. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

Licence A80536 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2002 · expires 2028-03-31 · University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine.

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.

• Alta Bates Summit Medical CenterOakland, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency departmentPart of Sutter Health, which runs 27 hospitals in 2 statesPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 78% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 5 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Death rate among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complications: 130.09 (87.72 to 172.46) · 109 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.274, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.227, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Alta Bates Summit Medical Center - Alta Bates CampBerkeley, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Sutter Health, which runs 27 hospitals in 2 statesPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 67% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.298, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$81,858

Medicare paid this office $81,858 for 306 people.

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

Who their Medicare patients are

306 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 74 · Under 65 15% · 85 and older 18% · Women 53% · Also on Medicaid 49% · Health risk score 2.19. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical hospitalist clinician is at 2.49.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Chronic kidney disease 45% · Diabetes 44% · Depression 44% · Heart failure 33% · Coronary heart disease 29% · Atrial fibrillation 27% · Stroke 27% · COPD 24% · Dementia 24% · Cancer 18%.

The office billed $305,354, Medicare allowed $104,417 and paid $81,858; for 1,058 services of 8 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.

$12,027 in 2024

Medicaid paid $12,027 for 550 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 22 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.

$18,731

Pharmacies billed $18,731 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 7% of their Part D prescriptions (25 of 337) in 2024. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical hospitalist clinician is at 4%.

300 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $18,731 in drug cost · 119 antibiotic prescriptions to 82 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.

$99 in 2023

Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.

A payment is not proof that care is biased.

NPI

1740398973

Licence

CA A80536California A80536: Current · expires 2028-03-31

Trained

University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, 2001

Group

Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Gender

Male