Salman M Azam, MD

4 locations · Torrance Memorial Medical Center · Cor Healthcare Medical Associates · Southern California Hospitalist Network Medical Group Inc · Torrance Health Association Inc

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

Surgery centers they own

• Newport Bay Sugery Center, LLC dba Newport Bay Surgery CenterAmbulatory Surgery Center · Newport Beach, CA3.67% owner since 2013 · accredited by AAAHC
  Accreditation Renewed2 inspections · last 2025-07-28

3 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
• Torrance Memorial Medical CenterTorrance, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Other · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Cedars Sinai Health System, which runs 4 hospitalsPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 82% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 5 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — CMS Medicare PSI 90: Patient safety and adverse events composite: 1.36 (1.11 to 1.61), Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Postoperative respiratory failure rate: 15.79 (10.51 to 21.07) · 1,494 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Pressure ulcer rate: 1.21 (0.72 to 1.71) · 9,154 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.328, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$161,730

Medicare paid this office $161,730 for 897 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

897 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 78 · Under 65 6% · 85 and older 26% · Women 48% · Also on Medicaid 25% · Health risk score 2.20. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical cardiology clinician is at 1.71.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Coronary heart disease 52% · Heart failure 51% · Diabetes 48% · Chronic kidney disease 47% · Atrial fibrillation 45% · Depression 26% · COPD 21% · Stroke 19% · Cancer 18% · Dementia 16%.

The office billed $529,495, Medicare allowed $214,090 and paid $161,730; for 2,523 services of 64 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.

$1,486 in 2024

Medicaid paid $1,486 for 214 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 45 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.

$654,372

Pharmacies billed $654,372 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 0% of their Part D prescriptions (0 of 3,177) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical cardiology clinician is at 0%.

2,599 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $654,372 in drug cost · 23 antibiotic prescriptions to 18 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.

$18,082 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.