Mehal Shah, DO
Family Practice · Palo Alto
- Medicare standing
- Clear
- Enrolled, allowed to bill and order, not excluded
- Plans that list them
- 1
- 1 carrier
- Offices
- 4
Offices
4 locations · Sutter Bay Medical Foundation · 3,783 clinicians in this group
Plans that list them
1 plan · 1 carrier
A missing listing does not mean out of network. Directories change, and a listing does not cover every office. Call Dr. Shah’s office to confirm they take your plan. Ask about the office you use, its medical group, referrals and appointments.
| Alignment Health Sutter Advantage +More (HMO) | Alignment Health Plan | Listed | Oct 3, 2026 |
Original Medicare doctor bills
$38,019
Medicare paid this office $38,019 for 209 people.
This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.
| Return visit (30+ min) | 91 | $12,483 | $110 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 99 | $7,976 | $73 |
| Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit | 37 | $5,849 | $158 |
| Long return visit (40+ min) | 23 | $4,254 | $152 |
| Visit complexity inherent to evaluation and management associated with medical care services that serve as the continuing focal point for all needed health care services and/or with medical care services that are part of ongoing care related to a patient's | 11 | $176 | $14 |
Who their Medicare patients are
209 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 76 · Women 56% · Also on Medicaid 8% · Health risk score 0.85. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical family practice clinician is at 1.13.
Conditions among them: High blood pressure 56% · Coronary heart disease 22% · Diabetes 17% · Chronic kidney disease 17% · Depression 15% · Cancer 14% · Atrial fibrillation 14% · Heart failure 7% · COPD 5%.
The office billed $115,177, Medicare allowed $50,636 and paid $38,019; for 377 services of 27 kinds; $1,437 of it was for drugs given in the office and $36,582 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
| 2024 | 209 | 377 | 76 | 0.85 | $115,177 | $38,019 |
| 2023 | 193 | 340 | 76 | 0.81 | $98,216 | $32,607 |
| 2022 | 92 | 134 | 77 | 0.89 | $35,111 | $14,185 |
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.
See the services billed each year
2023: 6 services
| Return visit (30+ min) | 91 | $10,356 | $97 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 89 | $6,629 | $68 |
| Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit | 37 | $5,768 | $156 |
| Long return visit (40+ min) | 23 | $3,593 | $128 |
| Influenza vaccine, quadrivalent inactivated, 0.5 ml dosage | 15 | $1,132 | $75 |
| Administration of influenza virus vaccine | 15 | $554 | $37 |
2022: 3 services
| Return visit (30+ min) | 48 | $5,757 | $115 |
| Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit | 14 | $2,168 | $155 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 24 | $2,089 | $84 |
Drugs they prescribed that Part D paid
$76,670
Pharmacies billed $76,670 in 2024.
This is pharmacy cost, not the office bill, and not what patients paid.
766 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $76,670 in drug cost · 29 antibiotic prescriptions to 18 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.
| Eliquis | 20 | $23,169 | $1,158 |
| Jardiance | 12 | $12,658 | $1,055 |
| Arnuity Ellipta | 12 | $2,236 | $186 |
| Atorvastatin | 117 | $1,406 | $12 |
| Albuterol Sulfate Hfa | 13 | $764 | $59 |
See all 22 drugs
| Eliquis | 20 | $23,169 | $1,158 |
| Jardiance | 12 | $12,658 | $1,055 |
| Arnuity Ellipta | 12 | $2,236 | $186 |
| Atorvastatin | 117 | $1,406 | $12 |
| Albuterol Sulfate Hfa | 13 | $764 | $59 |
| Tamsulosin | 32 | $653 | $20 |
| Losartan | 32 | $565 | $18 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 14 | $538 | $38 |
| Lisinopril | 44 | $466 | $11 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 63 | $456 | $7 |
| Bupropion Xl | 15 | $330 | $22 |
| Metoprolol | 26 | $306 | $12 |
| Omeprazole | 18 | $281 | $16 |
| Metformin | 21 | $266 | $13 |
| Rosuvastatin | 13 | $249 | $19 |
| Sertraline | 15 | $183 | $12 |
| Escitalopram | 11 | $145 | $13 |
| Levothyroxine | 14 | $134 | $10 |
| Metformin Hcl Er | 12 | $134 | $11 |
| Hydrochlorothiazide | 12 | $57 | $5 |
| Lorazepam | 14 | $42 | $3 |
| Paxlovid | 14 | $0 | $0 |
Year by year
| 2024 | 867 | 171 | None | None | $76,670 |
| 2023 | 650 | 129 | None | None | $60,724 |
| 2022 | 216 | 66 | None | 7% | $9,915 |
| 2021 | 147 | 52 | 0% (0) | None | $4,813 |
| 2020 | 136 | 40 | None | None | $8,929 |
| 2019 | 65 | 17 | None | 31% | $4,119 |
Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.
See the drugs prescribed each year
2023: 11 drugs
| Trazodone | 14 | $884 | $63 |
| Atorvastatin | 64 | $778 | $12 |
| Bupropion Xl | 12 | $668 | $56 |
| Tamsulosin | 27 | $632 | $23 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 39 | $607 | $16 |
| Lisinopril | 30 | $442 | $15 |
| Losartan | 15 | $370 | $25 |
| Gabapentin | 19 | $276 | $15 |
| Omeprazole | 12 | $204 | $17 |
| Buspirone | 12 | $116 | $10 |
| Lorazepam | 13 | $85 | $7 |
2022: 4 drugs
| Donepezil | 11 | $1,159 | $105 |
| Atorvastatin | 22 | $544 | $25 |
| Lisinopril | 18 | $253 | $14 |
| Pantoprazole | 12 | $67 | $6 |
2021: 1 drug
| Lisinopril | 12 | $48 | $4 |
2020: 1 drug
| Lisinopril | 22 | $105 | $5 |
Money from drug and device companies
$124 in 2022
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | None | $124 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | None | $20 |
Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.
A payment is not proof that care is biased.
| Abbvie | Mavyret | $124 | 1 payment
|
See the published payment
| Abbvie | Meals · 2022-02-16 | Mavyret | $124 |
See earlier years (2019)
2019: $20
| GlaxoSmithKline | Bexsero | $20 | 1 payment
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Professional record
- NPI
- 1790344828
- Licence
- CA 20A19423
- Video visits
- Lists video visits
- Gender
- Female
More record details
- Sole proprietor
- No
- Taxonomy
- Family medicine (207Q00000X)
- Mailing address
- 325 Distel Cir, Los Altos, CA, 94022
- NPI first listed
- 2019-06-12
- NPI last updated
- 2022-10-13
- NPI record certified
- 2022-10-13
This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.
Extra NPI addresses: 1325 Community Memorial Dr, La Grange, IL, 60525