Lauren K Brown-Berchtold, MD

3 locations · Hospitalists of Modesto Medical Group Inc · Golden Valley Health Centers

Hospitals listed: Doctors Medical Center. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

9 plans · 1 carrier

Licence A143541 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2016 · expires 2027-10-31 · University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine.

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

1 licence

• Texas Q4049Physician License · since 2015 · expires 2025-05-31Matched by name, not licence number; check the name before relying on it.
  Canc Non-RenewalNo board action on this licenceCheck it with the state

We check Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, plus California above. A state that is not in this list has not been checked, which is not the same as clear.

What this clinician told their state board, medical school and everything before it. Only some states publish this, so nothing here means the state does not say, not that there was no training or certification.

Specialty certification

• American Board of Family Medicine - Family Medicine

Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.

1 hospital

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

• Doctors Medical CenterModesto, CAAcute Care Hospital · Proprietary · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Tenet Healthcare, which runs 77 hospitals in 12 statesPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 59% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 1 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — CMS Medicare PSI 90: Patient safety and adverse events composite: 1.36 (1.02 to 1.71), Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Pressure ulcer rate: 1.35 (0.81 to 1.9) · 6,296 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.281, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.326, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — SSI - Colon Surgery: 0.183, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$8,308

Medicare paid this office $8,308 for 34 people.

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

Who their Medicare patients are

34 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 70 · Women 41% · Health risk score 2.37. Sicker patients than 9 in 10 peers; the typical family practice clinician is at 1.13.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 59% · Atrial fibrillation 53% · Chronic kidney disease 50% · Coronary heart disease 47% · Heart failure 41% · Depression 35%.

The office billed $28,498, Medicare allowed $10,329 and paid $8,308; for 100 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.

$164,998 in 2024

Medicaid paid $164,998 for 4,973 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 410 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.

$9,323

Pharmacies billed $9,323 in 2024.

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

100 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $9,323 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.

$2,850 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

1770927972

Licence

CA A143541California A143541: Current · expires 2027-10-31Texas Q4049: Canc Non-Renewal

Trained

University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, 2013 · 13 years ago

Group

Hospitalists of Modesto Medical Group Inc · Golden Valley Health Centers

Gender

Female