Asghar Askari, MD

1 location

Hospitals listed: Providence Little Company of Mary Med Ctr Torrance · Providence Little Co of Mary Med Ctr San Pedro. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

Licence A35822 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 1980 · expires 2028-01-31 · National University of Iran Faculty of Medicine.

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

Surgery centers they own

• Pacific Coast Surgical CenterAmbulatory Surgery Center · Torrance, CAOwner · accredited by JC
  Denied Accreditation1 inspection, 1 with deficiencies · last 2014-03-17: Requirements Met
• Pacific Coast Surgical Center, LPAmbulatory Surgery Center · Torrance, CA2% owner since 2008 · accredited by AAAHC
  Accreditation Renewed5 inspections, 4 with deficiencies · last 2024-09-10: Requirements Met

What this clinician told their state board, medical school and everything before it. Only some states publish this, so nothing here means the state does not say, not that there was no training or certification.

Specialty certification

• American Board of Surgery - Surgery
• American Board of Urology - Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery
• American Board of Urology - Pediatric Urology
• American Board of Urology - Urology

2 hospitals

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

• Providence Little Co of Mary Med Ctr San PedroSan Pedro, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · No emergency departmentPart of Providence, which runs 54 hospitals in 7 statesPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 71% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsNo measure marked better or worse than the national rate
• Providence Little Company of Mary Med Ctr TorranceTorrance, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Church · No emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Providence, which runs 54 hospitals in 7 statesPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 70% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 5 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.472, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$105,061

Medicare paid this office $105,061 for 388 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

388 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 77 · Under 65 6% · 85 and older 21% · Women 21% · Also on Medicaid 25% · Health risk score 1.51. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical urology clinician is at 1.36.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 44% · Coronary heart disease 28% · Chronic kidney disease 28% · Cancer 21% · Atrial fibrillation 21% · Heart failure 19% · Depression 19% · COPD 14% · Stroke 10% · Dementia 8%.

The office billed $473,423, Medicare allowed $138,629 and paid $105,061; for 1,637 services of 51 kinds; $3,074 of it was for drugs given in the office and $101,987 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.

$1,760 in 2024

Medicaid paid $1,760 for 143 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 22 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.

$559,840

Pharmacies billed $559,840 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 3% of their Part D prescriptions (76 of 2,723) in 2024. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical urology clinician is at 2%.

2,502 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $559,840 in drug cost · 553 antibiotic prescriptions to 257 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.

$222 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

1922116698

Licence

CA A35822California A35822: Current · expires 2028-01-31

Gender

Male