Kathleen Durgin Kolstad, MD

11 locations · The Regents of the University of California · 1,426 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital · Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

Licence A133255 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2014 · expires 2028-08-31 · David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

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.

• Goleta Valley Cottage HospitalSanta Barbara, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Other · Has an emergency departmentPart of Cottage Health System, which runs 4 hospitalsPatients rate it 4 of 5 · 85% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 5 of 5 starsNo measure marked better or worse than the national rate
• Santa Barbara Cottage HospitalSanta Barbara, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Cottage Health System, which runs 4 hospitalsPatients rate it 4 of 5 · 85% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — SSI - Abdominal Hysterectomy: 4.13, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.43, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.54, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$533,606

Medicare paid this office $533,606 for 585 people.

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

Who their Medicare patients are

585 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 75 · Under 65 4% · 85 and older 11% · Women 76% · Also on Medicaid 7% · Health risk score 1.13. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical rheumatology clinician is at 1.38.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 60% · Depression 23% · Coronary heart disease 18% · Chronic kidney disease 18% · Diabetes 15% · Cancer 15% · Atrial fibrillation 15% · COPD 12% · Stroke 9% · Heart failure 8% · Dementia 2%.

The office billed $3,406,929, Medicare allowed $679,574 and paid $533,606; for 33,574 services of 20 kinds; $384,455 of it was for drugs given in the office and $149,152 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.

$12,827 in 2021

Medicaid paid $12,827 for 195 billed services this clinician did in 2021, up to 26 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.

$903,232

Pharmacies billed $903,232 in 2024.

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

719 generic and 189 brand-name prescriptions · $903,232 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.

$125 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

1902240203

Licence

CA A133255California A133255: Current · expires 2028-08-31

Trained

University of California, Geffen School of Medicine, 2013

Group

The Regents of the University of California

Video visits

Lists video visits

Gender

Female