Christian Foglar, MD

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

Hospitals listed: Good Samaritan Hospital · Natividad Medical Center · Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

26 plans · 8 carriers

1 licence

• Florida ME84652Medical Doctor · since 2002 · expires 2028-01-31
  ActiveNo 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.

3 placements

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

• Orthopaedic Surgery

Education

• Universitat Basel · MD1989Medical school

Residency and fellowship

• Baylor College of Medicine, OTHERHouston, TX · 1995–1996
• UCLA Harbor MC, SURGERYTorrance, CA · 1994–1995
• University of California, ORTHOPEDICSSan Francisco, CA · from 1995

Also licensed in

States the clinician told their board they are also licensed in. Only the states we check are verified.

California

3 hospitals

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

• Good Samaritan HospitalSan Jose, CAAcute Care Hospital · Proprietary · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of HCA Healthcare, which runs 185 hospitals in 19 statesPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 67% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 2 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.337, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Natividad Medical CenterSalinas, CAAcute Care Hospital · Government - Local · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Natividad Medical CenterPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 71% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 3 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.316, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Santa Clara Valley Medical CenterSan Jose, CAAcute Care Hospital · Government - Local · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System, which runs 3 hospitalsPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 70% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 2 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — SSI - Colon Surgery: 2.572, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.563, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.256, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — MRSA Bacteremia: 0.369, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$155,180

Medicare paid this office $155,180 for 238 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

Who their Medicare patients are

238 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 74 · Under 65 10% · 85 and older 14% · Women 71% · Also on Medicaid 40% · Health risk score 1.29. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical orthopedic surgery clinician is at 1.13.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 34% · Coronary heart disease 28% · Depression 27% · Chronic kidney disease 21% · Atrial fibrillation 18% · Heart failure 16% · COPD 12% · Dementia 12% · Cancer 11% · Stroke 7%.

The office billed $664,853, Medicare allowed $204,500 and paid $155,180; for 2,834 services of 75 kinds; $8,081 of it was for drugs given in the office and $147,100 for care.

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.

$673 in 2024

Medicaid paid $673 for 182 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 19 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.

$45,813

Pharmacies billed $45,813 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 45% of their Part D prescriptions (501 of 1,127) in 2024. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical orthopedic surgery clinician is at 31%. Long-acting opioids: 4% of their opioid prescriptions.

1,095 generic and 32 brand-name prescriptions · $45,813 in drug cost · 18 antibiotic prescriptions to 15 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.

$12 in 2022

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

A payment is not proof that care is biased.

16 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

1780689406

Licence

CA A054508, FL ME84652Florida ME84652: Active

Group

Bass Medical Group

Gender

Male