Brittany Behar, MD

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

Hospitals listed: Dominican Hospital · Sutter Maternity & Surgery Center of Santa Cruz. 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.

• 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
• Sutter Maternity & Surgery Center of Santa CruzSanta Cruz, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · No emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Sutter Health, which runs 27 hospitals in 2 statesPatients rate it 4 of 5 · 85% would definitely recommend it
  No overall ratingNo measure marked better or worse than the national rate

$72,494

Medicare paid this office $72,494 for 241 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

Who their Medicare patients are

241 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 73 · Under 65 10% · 85 and older 7% · Women 56% · Also on Medicaid 12% · Health risk score 1.04. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical plastic and reconstructive surgery clinician is at 1.21.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 58% · Depression 21% · Coronary heart disease 20% · Diabetes 17% · Chronic kidney disease 15% · Atrial fibrillation 14% · Cancer 12% · Heart failure 10% · COPD 6% · Stroke 5%.

The office billed $392,599, Medicare allowed $92,922 and paid $72,494; for 587 services of 98 kinds; $211 of it was for drugs given in the office and $72,283 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.

$576 in 2024

Medicaid paid $576 for 14 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 14 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.

$831

Pharmacies billed $831 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 39% of their Part D prescriptions (31 of 80) in 2024. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical plastic and reconstructive surgery clinician is at 28%.

78 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $831 in drug cost · 31 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.

$356 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.

Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.

NPI

1821364852

Licence

VA 0101267183

Trained

Drexel University College of Medicine, 2012

Group

Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Video visits

Lists video visits

Gender

Female