Tara Pollack, MD
Family Practice · Baltimore
- Medicare standing
- Clear
- Enrolled, allowed to bill and order, not excluded
- Plans that list them
- 3
- 2 carriers
- Offices
- 2
- Since medical school
- 6 years
- Georgetown University School of Medicine, 2020
Offices
2 locations · Medstar Medical Group II LLC · 3,726 clinicians in this group
Hospitals listed: Medstar Franklin Square Medical Center. That is not proof they admit you there this week.
Plans that list them
3 plans · 2 carriers
A missing listing does not mean out of network. Directories change, and a listing does not cover every office. Call Dr. Pollack’s office to confirm they take your plan. Ask about the office you use, its medical group, referrals and appointments.
3 of 3 plans
| Anthem Full Dual Advantage Aligned (HMO D-SNP) | Anthem Blue Cross | Listed | Oct 3, 2026 |
| Anthem Medicare Advantage (HMO-POS) | Anthem Blue Cross | Listed | Oct 3, 2026 |
| DualConnect (HMO D-SNP) | Santa Clara Family Health Plan | Listed | Sep 1, 2026 |
California Medical Board record
Licence A181209 · Delinquent
Licence status: Delinquent · since 2022 · expires 2024-10-30 · Georgetown University School of Medicine.
License renewal fee has not been paid. No practice is permitted.
No disciplinary actions, convictions, malpractice judgments or citations in this record.
Hospitals they work in
1 hospital
These rate the hospital, not this clinician. Most measures at most hospitals are no different from the national rate.
- Medstar Franklin Square Medical CenterRosedale, MDAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of MedStar Health, which runs 10 hospitals in 2 statesPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 57% would definitely recommend itOverall rating: 3 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — CMS Medicare PSI 90: Patient safety and adverse events composite: 1.41 (1.13 to 1.69), Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Pressure ulcer rate: 2.01 (1.46 to 2.57) · 8,727 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.109, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.176, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
See every measure and the patient survey for Medstar Franklin Square Medical Center
Behind the star rating — Deaths: 3 better, 4 the same, 0 worse of 7 measures. Safety: 3 better, 3 the same, 1 worse of 7 measures. Readmissions: 1 better, 7 the same, 1 worse of 9 measures. The star rating is worked out from an earlier period than the measures below, so the two can disagree.
| CMS Medicare PSI 90: Patient safety and adverse events compositeComplications and deaths | 1.41 (1.13 to 1.69) | Worse | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Pressure ulcer rateComplications and deaths | 2.01 (1.46 to 2.57) · 8,727 cases | Worse | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards)Infections | 0.109 | Better | Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 |
| Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff)Infections | 0.176 | Better | Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 |
| Abdominopelvic accidental puncture or laceration rateComplications and deaths | 1.01 (0.16 to 1.87) · 1,873 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Death rate among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complicationsComplications and deaths | 175.51 (136.31 to 214.71) · 169 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Death rate for COPD patientsComplications and deaths | 6.8 · 428 cases | None | Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 |
| Death rate for heart attack patientsComplications and deaths | 13.7 · 282 cases | None | Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 |
| Death rate for heart failure patientsComplications and deaths | 9.3 · 728 cases | None | Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 |
| Death rate for pneumonia patientsComplications and deaths | 13.9 · 721 cases | None | Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 |
| Death rate for stroke patientsComplications and deaths | 10.7 · 493 cases | None | Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 |
| Hybrid Hospital-Wide All-Cause Risk Standardized Mortality RateComplications and deaths | 2.9 · 4,191 cases | None | Jul 2024 – Jun 2025 |
| Iatrogenic pneumothorax rateComplications and deaths | 0.24 (0.04 to 0.44) · 11,861 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| In-hospital fall-associated fracture rateComplications and deaths | 0.21 (0.03 to 0.39) · 12,535 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Perioperative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis rateComplications and deaths | 3.89 (2 to 5.77) · 1,897 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Postoperative acute kidney injury requiring dialysis rateComplications and deaths | 1.39 (0 to 2.98) · 708 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Postoperative hemorrhage or hematoma rateComplications and deaths | 2.48 (1.11 to 3.84) · 1,815 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Postoperative respiratory failure rateComplications and deaths | 7.79 (1.66 to 13.92) · 592 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Postoperative sepsis rateComplications and deaths | 6.91 (3.61 to 10.2) · 667 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Postoperative wound dehiscence rateComplications and deaths | 1.49 (0.08 to 2.89) · 540 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Rate of complications for hip/knee replacement patientsComplications and deaths | 5.1 · 34 cases | None | Apr 2023 – Mar 2025 |
| Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards)Infections | 0.55 | No different | Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 |
| MRSA BacteremiaInfections | 0.497 | No different | Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 |
| SSI - Colon SurgeryInfections | 0.535 | No different | Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 |
| Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) 30-Day Readmission RateUnplanned return visits | 15 · 229 cases | None | Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 |
| Heart failure (HF) 30-Day Readmission RateUnplanned return visits | 19.4 · 960 cases | None | Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 |
| Hospital return days for heart attack patientsUnplanned return visits | 23.4 · 212 cases | None | Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 |
| Hospital return days for heart failure patientsUnplanned return visits | -15.9 · 933 cases | None | Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 |
| Hospital return days for pneumonia patientsUnplanned return visits | -12.4 · 827 cases | None | Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 |
| Pneumonia (PN) 30-Day Readmission RateUnplanned return visits | 15.3 · 877 cases | None | Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 |
| Rate of emergency department (ED) visits for patients receiving outpatient chemotherapyUnplanned return visits | 5 (3.7 to 6.6) · 405 cases | No different | Jan 2024 – Dec 2024 |
| Rate of inpatient admissions for patients receiving outpatient chemotherapyUnplanned return visits | 12.9 (10.7 to 15.6) · 405 cases | No different | Jan 2024 – Dec 2024 |
| Rate of readmission after hip/knee replacementUnplanned return visits | 6 · 35 cases | None | Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 |
| Rate of readmission for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patientsUnplanned return visits | 19.2 · 530 cases | None | Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 |
| Rate of unplanned hospital visits after colonoscopy (per 1,000 colonoscopies)Unplanned return visits | 13.4 (10.3 to 17.5) · 1,002 cases | No different | Jan 2022 – Dec 2024 |
| Ratio of unplanned hospital visits after hospital outpatient surgeryUnplanned return visits | 1.1 (0.9 to 1.4) · 503 cases | No different | Jan 2024 – Dec 2024 |
What patients said (959 patients answered, 17% of those asked)
| Cleanliness | 3 |
| Nurse communication | 2 |
| Doctor communication | 2 |
| Communication about medicines | 2 |
| Discharge information | 3 |
| Overall hospital rating | 2 |
| Quietness | 3 |
| Recommend hospital | 2 |
| Room was "always" clean | 64% |
| Nurses "always" communicated well | 72% |
| Doctors "always" communicated well | 76% |
| Staff "always" explained | 53% |
| Yes, staff "did" give patients this information | 84% |
| Yes, staff "did" give patients information about help after discharge | 83% |
| Doctors "always" explained things so they could understand | 72% |
| Doctors "always" listened carefully | 73% |
| Doctors "always" treated them with courtesy and respect | 83% |
| Patients who gave a rating of "9" or "10" (high) | 60% |
| Staff "always" explained new medications | 67% |
| Nurses "always" explained things so they could understand | 68% |
| Nurses "always" listened carefully | 69% |
| Nurses "always" treated them with courtesy and respect | 79% |
| "Always" quiet at night | 50% |
| "YES", patients would definitely recommend the hospital | 57% |
| Staff "always" explained possible side effects | 39% |
| Yes, staff "did" give patients information about possible symptoms | 85% |
Original Medicare doctor bills
$6,542
Medicare paid this office $6,542 for 44 people.
This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.
| Return visit (30+ min) | 18 | $1,673 | $93 |
Who their Medicare patients are
44 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 70 · Women 61% · Also on Medicaid 30% · Health risk score 1.35. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical family practice clinician is at 1.13.
Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Depression 39% · Diabetes 36% · Heart failure 32% · Coronary heart disease 27% · Chronic kidney disease 27% · Atrial fibrillation 27% · COPD 25%.
The office billed $20,431, Medicare allowed $8,134 and paid $6,542; for 87 services of 19 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.
Medicaid work
$1,908 in 2024
Medicaid paid $1,908 for 27 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 14 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.
| Return visit (30+ min) | 13 | $1,339 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 14 | $569 |
| 2024 | 27 | 2 | 14 | $1,908 |
| 2023 | 304 | 2 | 43 | $33,608 |
See the largest Medicaid services in earlier years
2023
| Clinic visit/encounter, all-inclusive | 132 | $31,906 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 172 | $1,702 |
Drugs they prescribed that Part D paid
$8,685
Pharmacies billed $8,685 in 2024.
This is pharmacy cost, not the office bill, and not what patients paid.
53 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $8,685 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
| 2024 | 66 | 28 | None | None | $8,685 |
| 2023 | 297 | 59 | None | None | $40,048 |
| 2022 | 316 | 66 | 5% (15) | None | $28,614 |
| 2021 | 152 | 52 | None | None | $22,238 |
Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.
See the drugs prescribed each year
2023: 8 drugs
| Losartan | 15 | $450 | $30 |
| Albuterol Sulfate Hfa | 11 | $436 | $40 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 21 | $412 | $20 |
| Metformin | 14 | $362 | $26 |
| Lisinopril | 17 | $291 | $17 |
| Diclofenac | 11 | $235 | $21 |
| Atorvastatin | 16 | $234 | $15 |
| Hydrochlorothiazide | 20 | $138 | $7 |
2022: 8 drugs
| Diclofenac | 23 | $409 | $18 |
| Metformin | 25 | $249 | $10 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 25 | $204 | $8 |
| Atorvastatin | 16 | $191 | $12 |
| Duloxetine | 15 | $190 | $13 |
| Losartan | 11 | $138 | $13 |
| Lisinopril | 16 | $136 | $9 |
| Hydrochlorothiazide | 19 | $103 | $5 |
2021: 1 drug
| Lisinopril | 11 | $47 | $4 |
Money from drug and device companies
$41 in 2024
A payment is not proof that care is biased.
| Hologic Sales and Service | Aptima | $41 | 2 payments
|
See all 2 published payments
| Hologic Sales and Service | Meals · 2024-10-23 | Aptima | $21 |
| Hologic Sales and Service | Meals · 2024-09-11 | Aptima | $21 |
Professional record
- NPI
- 1780203315
- Licence
- CA A181209California A181209: Delinquent · expires 2024-10-30
- Trained
- Georgetown University School of Medicine, 2020 · 6 years ago
- Video visits
- Lists video visits
- Gender
- Female
More record details
- Sole proprietor
- No
- Taxonomy
- Family medicine (207Q00000X); Student in a training program (390200000X)
- Mailing address
- 9101 Franklin Square Dr Ste 300, Baltimore, MD, 21237
- NPI first listed
- 2020-04-14
- NPI last updated
- 2024-04-14
- NPI record certified
- 2024-04-14
This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.