Heather F Taher, MD

1 location · Cep America - California · 1,278 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: El Camino Health · Good Samaritan Hospital · Natividad Medical Center. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

Licence A104149 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2008 · expires 2028-05-31 · Tulane University School of Medicine.

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

1 licence

• Illinois 036119979Licensed Physician And Surgeon · since 2008 · expires 2011-07-31
  Not RenewedNo board action on this licenceCheck it with the state

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3 hospitals

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

• El Camino HealthMountain View, CAAcute Care Hospital · Government - Hospital District or Authority · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of El Camino Health, which runs 2 hospitalsPatients rate it 4 of 5 · 80% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.291, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.393, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — MRSA Bacteremia: 0, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• 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

$88,061

Medicare paid this office $88,061 for 548 people.

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

Who their Medicare patients are

548 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 78 · Under 65 6% · 85 and older 33% · Women 62% · Also on Medicaid 28% · Health risk score 1.89. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical emergency medicine clinician is at 2.01.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 39% · Coronary heart disease 39% · Atrial fibrillation 35% · Chronic kidney disease 34% · Heart failure 32% · Depression 31% · Dementia 24% · COPD 20% · Stroke 19% · Cancer 16%.

The office billed $719,859, Medicare allowed $112,634 and paid $88,061; for 854 services of 47 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.

$34,537 in 2024

Medicaid paid $34,537 for 757 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 33 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.

$6,419

Pharmacies billed $6,419 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 13% of their Part D prescriptions (35 of 265) in 2024. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical emergency medicine clinician is at 12%.

244 generic and 21 brand-name prescriptions · $6,419 in drug cost · 47 antibiotic prescriptions to 42 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.

Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.

NPI

1790956381

Licence

CA A104149, IL 036119979California A104149: Current · expires 2028-05-31Illinois 036119979: Not Renewed

Trained

Tulane University School of Medicine, 2005

Group

Cep America - California

Gender

Female