Nichole S Atherton, MD

2 locations · Washington Township Medical Foundation · Acute Care Surgery Medical Group Inc

Hospitals listed: Mercy San Juan Medical Center · Washington Hospital. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

9 plans · 4 carriers

Licence A90718 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2005 · expires 2026-11-30 · Tufts University School of Medicine.

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

2 hospitals

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

• Mercy San Juan Medical CenterCarmichael, 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 · 69% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 3 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.108, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — MRSA Bacteremia: 0.144, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Washington HospitalFremont, CAAcute Care Hospital · Government - Hospital District or Authority · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Washington Hospital Healthcare SystemPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 71% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 2 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.188, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.164, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$9,770

Medicare paid this office $9,770 for 78 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

Who their Medicare patients are

78 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 77 · Women 53% · Also on Medicaid 59% · Health risk score 2.12. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical general surgery clinician is at 1.69.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 49% · Chronic kidney disease 40% · Dementia 38% · Depression 37% · Atrial fibrillation 35% · Stroke 33% · Coronary heart disease 32% · Heart failure 32% · COPD 18% · Cancer 15%.

The office billed $45,977, Medicare allowed $13,293 and paid $9,770; for 110 services of 18 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.

$1,504 in 2024

Medicaid paid $1,504 for 56 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 16 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.

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

Opioids were 80% of their 25 Part D prescriptions in 2019. 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

Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.

NPI

1881875185

Licence

CA A90718California A90718: Current · expires 2026-11-30

Trained

Tufts University School of Medicine, 2003 · 23 years ago

Group

Washington Township Medical Foundation · Acute Care Surgery Medical Group Inc

Gender

Female