Fram Buhari, MD

1 location · San Joaquin Cardiology Medical Group Inc · 7 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: Dameron Hospital · St Joseph'S Medical Center of Stockton. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

2 hospitals

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

• Dameron HospitalStockton, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Other · Has an emergency departmentPart of Adventist Health, which runs 28 hospitals in 3 statesPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 58% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 2 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — MRSA Bacteremia: 18.373, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• St Joseph'S Medical Center of StocktonStockton, 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 3 of 5 · 67% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 3 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.08, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.34, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$453,036

Medicare paid this office $453,036 for 701 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

701 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 75 · Under 65 9% · 85 and older 14% · Women 47% · Also on Medicaid 37% · Health risk score 1.66. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical cardiology clinician is at 1.71.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Coronary heart disease 55% · Diabetes 50% · Chronic kidney disease 38% · Heart failure 35% · Atrial fibrillation 35% · COPD 20% · Depression 16% · Cancer 13% · Stroke 13% · Dementia 7%.

The office billed $1,470,416, Medicare allowed $584,194 and paid $453,036; for 14,399 services of 84 kinds; $61,526 of it was for drugs given in the office and $391,510 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.

$32,321 in 2024

Medicaid paid $32,321 for 739 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 64 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.

$726,350

Pharmacies billed $726,350 in 2024.

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

2,906 generic and 676 brand-name prescriptions · $726,350 in drug cost · 30 antibiotic prescriptions to 24 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.