Michael E Blam, MD

1 location · Gastro-Digestive Medical Group · 3 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: Pih Health Downey Hospital · Saint Francis Medical Center · Uci Health-Lakewood. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

3 hospitals

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

• Pih Health Downey HospitalDowney, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency departmentPart of PIH Health, which runs 3 hospitalsPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 73% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.157, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Saint Francis Medical CenterLynwood, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Church · No emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Prime Healthcare Services, which runs 45 hospitals in 14 statesPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 62% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 3 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.228, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.055, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — SSI - Colon Surgery: 0, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Uci Health-LakewoodLakewood, CAAcute Care Hospital · Proprietary · Has an emergency departmentPart of Tenet Healthcare, which runs 77 hospitals in 12 statesPatients rate it 1 of 5 · 48% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 2 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.105, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$148,687

Medicare paid this office $148,687 for 558 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

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

558 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 73 · Under 65 17% · 85 and older 17% · Women 54% · Also on Medicaid 88% · Health risk score 4.18. Sicker patients than 9 in 10 peers; the typical gastroenterology clinician is at 1.42.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 73% · Chronic kidney disease 64% · Heart failure 60% · Coronary heart disease 52% · Depression 41% · Dementia 37% · COPD 36% · Atrial fibrillation 36% · Stroke 30% · Cancer 17%.

The office billed $497,503, Medicare allowed $189,021 and paid $148,687; for 1,843 services of 27 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.

$100,305 in 2024

Medicaid paid $100,305 for 1,827 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 52 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.

$123,420

Pharmacies billed $123,420 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 0% of their Part D prescriptions (0 of 785) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical gastroenterology clinician is at 0%.

614 generic and 171 brand-name prescriptions · $123,420 in drug cost · 27 antibiotic prescriptions to 16 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.

$656 in 2025

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

A payment is not proof that care is biased.

NPI

1801877733

Licence

CT 039355

Trained

Washington University School of Medicine, 1995 · 31 years ago

Group

Gastro-Digestive Medical Group

Gender

Male