Sam Chitsaz Avval, MD

7 locations · Sutter Bay Medical Foundation · Pittsburg-Antioch Medical Group A Professional Corporation

Hospitals listed: John Muir Medical Center - Concord Campus · Sutter Delta Medical Center. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

Licence A153515 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2018 · expires 2028-01-31 · Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services.

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

1 licence

• Texas R6761Physician License · since 2018 · expires 2027-05-31
  ActiveNo board action on this licenceCheck it with the state

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2 hospitals

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

• John Muir Medical Center - Concord CampusConcord, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency departmentPart of John Muir Health, which runs 3 hospitalsPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 77% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.235, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.675, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Sutter Delta Medical CenterAntioch, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Sutter Health, which runs 27 hospitals in 2 statesPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 60% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 3 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.173, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$154,173

Medicare paid this office $154,173 for 419 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

Who their Medicare patients are

419 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 74 · Under 65 12% · 85 and older 14% · Women 58% · Also on Medicaid 58% · Health risk score 2.52. Sicker patients than 9 in 10 peers; the typical cardiology clinician is at 1.71.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 57% · Coronary heart disease 53% · Heart failure 50% · Chronic kidney disease 49% · COPD 41% · Atrial fibrillation 41% · Depression 31% · Stroke 24% · Dementia 16% · Cancer 14%.

The office billed $321,721, Medicare allowed $200,206 and paid $154,173; for 1,537 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.

$32,238 in 2024

Medicaid paid $32,238 for 323 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 22 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.

$310,869

Pharmacies billed $310,869 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 1,431) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical cardiology clinician is at 0%.

1,196 generic and 235 brand-name prescriptions · $310,869 in drug cost.

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.

$56 in 2024

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

A payment is not proof that care is biased.

NPI

1821364084

Licence

CA A153515, TX R6761California A153515: Current · expires 2028-01-31Texas R6761: Active

Group

Sutter Bay Medical Foundation · Pittsburg-Antioch Medical Group A Professional Corporation

Video visits

Lists video visits

Gender

Male