Joseph Driver, MD

1 location · Kalispell Regional Medical Center Inc · 422 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: Cabinet Peaks Medical Center · Logan Health Medical Center · Logan Health - Whitefish. 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.

• Cabinet Peaks Medical CenterLibby, MTCritical Access Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency departmentPatients rate it 4 of 5 · 82% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 2 of 5 starsNo measure marked better or worse than the national rate
• Logan Health - WhitefishWhitefish, MTCritical Access Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Logan Health, which runs 6 hospitalsPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 79% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 3 of 5 starsNo measure marked better or worse than the national rate
• Logan Health Medical CenterKalispell, MTAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Logan Health, which runs 6 hospitalsPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 64% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 3 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Abdominopelvic accidental puncture or laceration rate: 2.82 (1.9 to 3.73) · 997 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — CMS Medicare PSI 90: Patient safety and adverse events composite: 1.35 (1.02 to 1.67), Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.234, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.132, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$64,169

Medicare paid this office $64,169 for 90 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

90 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 73 · Women 51% · Health risk score 1.18. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical neurosurgery clinician is at 1.46.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 70% · Diabetes 30% · Coronary heart disease 29% · Depression 27% · Chronic kidney disease 19% · Cancer 16% · Heart failure 14% · Atrial fibrillation 12%.

The office billed $224,698, Medicare allowed $80,667 and paid $64,169; for 223 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.

$3,758

Pharmacies billed $3,758 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 34% of their Part D prescriptions (17 of 50) in 2024. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical neurosurgery clinician is at 28%. Surgeons prescribe little besides pain medicine after an operation, so their opioid share runs high.

48 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $3,758 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.

$4,843 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

1871955450

Licence

OH 35.147566

Trained

Loyola University of Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine, 2016 · 10 years ago

Group

Kalispell Regional Medical Center Inc

Video visits

Lists video visits

Gender

Male