Michael M Papalian, MD
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Palo Alto
- Medicare standing
- Clear
- Enrolled, allowed to bill and order, not excluded
- Plans that list them
- Not verified
- Not the same as out of network.
- Office
- 1
- Since medical school
- 43 years
- Graduated 1983
Offices
1 location
Plan participation
Not verified
We could not verify current plan participation for this doctor. This does not mean they are out of network. Call Dr. Papalian’s office at (650) 364-6060 to ask if they take your plan before you enroll.
Original Medicare doctor bills
$2,231
Medicare paid this office $2,231 for 11 people.
This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.
Procedures Medicare counted
| Melanoma (skin cancer) excision | 1-10 | None |
Who their Medicare patients are
11 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 74 · Under 65 0% · 85 and older 0% · Also on Medicaid 0% · Health risk score 1.02. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical plastic and reconstructive surgery clinician is at 1.21.
The office billed $5,675, Medicare allowed $3,310 and paid $2,231; for 18 services of 8 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
| 2024 | 11 | 18 | 74 | 1.02 | $5,675 | $2,231 |
| 2023 | 14 | 30 | 73 | 0.61 | $10,900 | $4,067 |
| 2022 | 19 | 37 | 74 | 0.99 | $11,225 | $5,333 |
| 2021 | 15 | 44 | 78 | 0.91 | $10,575 | $5,150 |
| 2020 | 19 | 53 | 74 | 0.74 | $20,525 | $7,121 |
| 2019 | 36 | 108 | 74 | 0.91 | $46,200 | $18,901 |
| 2018 | 55 | 175 | 75 | 1.10 | $69,850 | $29,331 |
| 2017 | 61 | 197 | 77 | 0.97 | $71,725 | $32,090 |
| 2016 | 64 | 193 | 75 | 1.06 | $72,650 | $34,398 |
| 2015 | 56 | 181 | 75 | 0.95 | $73,700 | $34,666 |
| 2014 | 59 | 208 | 75 | 1.07 | $88,550 | $43,895 |
| 2013 | 69 | 228 | 75 | 0.83 | $87,450 | $46,659 |
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.
See the services billed each year
2020: 1 service
| Return visit (30+ min) | 15 | $1,974 | $86 |
2019: 1 service
| Return visit (30+ min) | 20 | $3,109 | $94 |
2018: 3 services
| Return visit (30+ min) | 31 | $5,657 | $93 |
| Long return visit (40+ min) | 14 | $1,698 | $113 |
| New patient visit (30+ min) | 15 | $1,326 | $88 |
2017: 3 services
| Return visit (30+ min) | 38 | $7,345 | $93 |
| Long return visit (40+ min) | 13 | $1,656 | $118 |
| New patient visit (30+ min) | 16 | $1,567 | $98 |
2016: 2 services
| Return visit (30+ min) | 42 | $7,588 | $93 |
| New patient visit (30+ min) | 15 | $1,389 | $93 |
2015: 2 services
| Return visit (30+ min) | 35 | $7,042 | $95 |
| New patient visit (30+ min) | 13 | $1,194 | $92 |
2014: 1 service
| Return visit (30+ min) | 41 | $9,256 | $97 |
2013: 4 services
| Return visit (30+ min) | 46 | $8,642 | $95 |
| New patient visit (30+ min) | 13 | $1,316 | $101 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 13 | $761 | $59 |
| Injection into tendon or ligament | 11 | $742 | $53 |
Drugs they prescribed that Part D paid
This is pharmacy cost, not the office bill, and not what patients paid.
Opioids were 57% of their 21 Part D prescriptions in 2018. Too few prescriptions to judge: with under about 50 a year, a handful of patients can swing this share.
Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.
Year by year
| 2019 | 20 | 11 | None | 0% | $138 |
| 2018 | 21 | 12 | 57% (12) | 0% | $170 |
| 2017 | 24 | 15 | 54% (13) | 0% | $268 |
| 2016 | 18 | None | None | 0% | $139 |
| 2015 | 22 | None | None | 0% | $150 |
| 2014 | 29 | 16 | 59% (17) | 0% | $256 |
| 2013 | 28 | 16 | 43% (12) | None | $383 |
Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.
See the drugs prescribed each year
2014: 1 drug
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen | 12 | $105 | $9 |
2013: 1 drug
| Cephalexin | 13 | $118 | $9 |
Professional record
- NPI
- 1871675827
- Licence
- CA G-053446
- Gender
- Male
More record details
- Sole proprietor
- Yes
- Taxonomy
- Federal specialty code 174400000X (174400000X)
- Mailing address
- 1515 El Camino Real Ste B, Palo Alto, CA, 94306
- NPI first listed
- 2006-10-19
- NPI last updated
- 2019-10-28
This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.