Douglas G Hetzler, MD

4 locations · Sutter Bay Medical Foundation · 3,783 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: Dominican Hospital. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

1 plan · 1 carrier

Licence C41078 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 1983 · expires 2028-11-30 · University of Iowa College of Medicine.

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

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 Otolaryngology - Otolaryngology

1 hospital

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

• Dominican HospitalSanta Cruz, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of CommonSpirit Health, which runs 145 hospitals in 19 statesPatients rate it 4 of 5 · 68% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Postoperative sepsis rate: 11.66 (8.02 to 15.3) · 412 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.168, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.169, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.489, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$67,938

Medicare paid this office $67,938 for 296 people.

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

Procedures year by year

Times billed to Original Medicare each year. A blank year means fewer than 11 people had it, or none: Medicare does not publish smaller counts. Medicare Advantage patients are not included.

Who their Medicare patients are

296 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 75 · Under 65 5% · 85 and older 12% · Women 51% · Also on Medicaid 11% · Health risk score 0.89. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical otolaryngology clinician is at 1.19.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 58% · Coronary heart disease 17% · Diabetes 16% · Atrial fibrillation 16% · Depression 16% · Cancer 15% · Chronic kidney disease 13% · COPD 9% · Heart failure 8% · Stroke 6% · Dementia 4%.

The office billed $351,965, Medicare allowed $92,895 and paid $67,938; for 717 services of 40 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.

$3,764

Pharmacies billed $3,764 in 2024.

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

126 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $3,764 in drug cost · 15 antibiotic prescriptions.

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.

NPI

1801876701

Licence

CA C41078California C41078: Current · expires 2028-11-30

Trained

University of Iowa, Rj & L Carver College of Medicine, 1981 · 45 years ago

Group

Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Gender

Male