Michael Murray, MD

6 locations · Bass Medical Group · 292 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: John Muir Medical Center - Walnut Creek Campus. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

30 plans · 7 carriers

Licence A79157 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2002 · expires 2027-08-31 · University of Minnesota Medical School.

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

Surgery centers they own

• Silicon Valley Surgery Center, LPAmbulatory Surgery Center · Campbell, CA2.24% owner since 2008 · accredited by AAAHC
  Accreditation Renewed4 inspections, 1 with deficiencies · last 2024-09-16
• Silicon Valley Surgery Center, LP - BascomAmbulatory Surgery Center · Campbell, CA2.24% owner since 2008 · accredited by AAAHC
  Accreditation RenewedNo inspections published

1 hospital

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

• John Muir Medical Center - Walnut Creek CampusWalnut Creek, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Other · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of John Muir Health, which runs 3 hospitalsPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 77% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 2 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Abdominopelvic accidental puncture or laceration rate: 2.01 (1.17 to 2.85) · 2,206 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Death rate among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complications: 222.42 (177.82 to 267.02) · 120 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Pressure ulcer rate: 1.4 (0.91 to 1.9) · 9,764 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — SSI - Colon Surgery: 2.734, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.536, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.341, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.455, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — MRSA Bacteremia: 0.245, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$146,086

Medicare paid this office $146,086 for 322 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

Who their Medicare patients are

322 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 76 · Women 56% · Also on Medicaid 4% · Health risk score 1.00. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical otolaryngology clinician is at 1.19.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 71% · Coronary heart disease 29% · Diabetes 27% · Chronic kidney disease 18% · Cancer 15% · Atrial fibrillation 15% · Depression 13% · Heart failure 11% · COPD 10% · Stroke 10% · Dementia 5%.

The office billed $558,636, Medicare allowed $187,282 and paid $146,086; for 1,178 services of 62 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.

$7,922

Pharmacies billed $7,922 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 13% of their Part D prescriptions (40 of 303) in 2024. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical otolaryngology clinician is at 4%.

290 generic and 13 brand-name prescriptions · $7,922 in drug cost · 34 antibiotic prescriptions to 19 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.

$90 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.

Research money

Money a company paid to run a study. Where it went to their institution, the clinician is named as an investigator and did not receive it; the amount covers the whole study, often across many sites.

18 measures · 2023

Medicare asked this office to report how often certain checkups happened in 2023. This is not a grade for the doctor. A specialist’s patients may not need every screening.

What the office says it does

Boxes the office ticked on its Medicare worksheet for 2023. Nobody checks these.

• Agreed to federal review of their records system
• Checks the state prescription-drug database before prescribing
• Did a security review of patient data
• Exchanges records both ways with other health systems
• Improved the patient portal
• Lets patients read their visit notes
• Shows lab and imaging costs when ordering tests
• Uses standard treatment protocols
• Exempt from electronic case reporting
• Exempt from immunization registry reporting

NPI

1750475828

Licence

CA A79157California A79157: Current · expires 2027-08-31

Trained

University of Minnesota Medical School, 1997

Group

Bass Medical Group

Gender

Male