Christine Lee, MD
Neurosurgery · Providence
- Medicare standing
- Clear
- Enrolled, allowed to bill and order, not excluded
- Plans that list them
- 4
- 1 carrier
- Offices
- 2
Offices
2 locations · Lifespan Physician Group Inc · Rhode Island Hospital
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Hospitals listed: Rhode Island Hospital. That is not proof they admit you there this week.
Plans that list them
4 plans · 1 carrier
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| SCAN Balance (HMO C-SNP) | SCAN Health Plan | Listed | Oct 3, 2026 |
| SCAN Classic (HMO) | SCAN Health Plan | Listed | Oct 3, 2026 |
| SCAN MyChoice (HMO) | SCAN Health Plan | Listed | Oct 3, 2026 |
| SCAN Strive (HMO C-SNP) | SCAN Health Plan | Listed | Oct 3, 2026 |
California Medical Board record
Licence A176964 · Delinquent
Licence status: Delinquent · since 2022 · expires 2024-03-31 · Stanford University School of Medicine.
License renewal fee has not been paid. No practice is permitted.
No disciplinary actions, convictions, malpractice judgments or citations in this record.
Hospitals they work in
1 hospital
These rate the hospital, not this clinician. Most measures at most hospitals are no different from the national rate.
- Rhode Island HospitalProvidence, RIAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency departmentPart of Lifespan, which runs 4 hospitalsPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 69% would definitely recommend itOverall rating: 4 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.516, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.324, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Rate of inpatient admissions for patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy: 9 (7.6 to 10.6) · 847 cases, Jan 2024 – Dec 2024
See every measure and the patient survey for Rhode Island Hospital
Behind the star rating — Deaths: 0 better, 7 the same, 1 worse of 8 measures. Safety: 3 better, 3 the same, 0 worse of 6 measures. Readmissions: 0 better, 9 the same, 1 worse of 10 measures. The star rating is worked out from an earlier period than the measures below, so the two can disagree.
| Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards)Infections | 0.516 | Better | Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 |
| Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff)Infections | 0.324 | Better | Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 |
| Rate of inpatient admissions for patients receiving outpatient chemotherapyUnplanned return visits | 9 (7.6 to 10.6) · 847 cases | Better | Jan 2024 – Dec 2024 |
| Abdominopelvic accidental puncture or laceration rateComplications and deaths | 0.92 (0.02 to 1.82) · 1,928 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| CMS Medicare PSI 90: Patient safety and adverse events compositeComplications and deaths | 0.75 (0.51 to 1) | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Death rate among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complicationsComplications and deaths | 153.66 (116.56 to 190.76) · 192 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Death rate for CABG surgery patientsComplications and deaths | 2.5 · 113 cases | None | Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 |
| Death rate for COPD patientsComplications and deaths | 9.3 · 123 cases | None | Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 |
| Death rate for heart attack patientsComplications and deaths | 12.7 · 239 cases | None | Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 |
| Death rate for heart failure patientsComplications and deaths | 13.6 · 480 cases | None | Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 |
| Death rate for pneumonia patientsComplications and deaths | 15.5 · 417 cases | None | Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 |
| Death rate for stroke patientsComplications and deaths | 12.7 · 1,163 cases | None | Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 |
| Hybrid Hospital-Wide All-Cause Risk Standardized Mortality RateComplications and deaths | 3.3 · 6,549 cases | None | Jul 2024 – Jun 2025 |
| Iatrogenic pneumothorax rateComplications and deaths | 0.16 (0 to 0.33) · 11,050 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| In-hospital fall-associated fracture rateComplications and deaths | 0.33 (0.15 to 0.5) · 11,091 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Perioperative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis rateComplications and deaths | 3.14 (1.55 to 4.72) · 3,480 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Postoperative acute kidney injury requiring dialysis rateComplications and deaths | 1.07 (0 to 2.45) · 1,346 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Postoperative hemorrhage or hematoma rateComplications and deaths | 1.47 (0.26 to 2.69) · 3,158 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Postoperative respiratory failure rateComplications and deaths | 7.41 (2.6 to 12.23) · 1,300 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Postoperative sepsis rateComplications and deaths | 4.26 (1.11 to 7.42) · 1,362 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Postoperative wound dehiscence rateComplications and deaths | 1.77 (0.37 to 3.18) · 568 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Pressure ulcer rateComplications and deaths | 0.29 (0 to 0.78) · 9,667 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards)Infections | 0.76 | No different | Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 |
| MRSA BacteremiaInfections | 0.688 | No different | Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 |
| SSI - Colon SurgeryInfections | 0.847 | No different | Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 |
| Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) 30-Day Readmission RateUnplanned return visits | 15.8 · 495 cases | None | Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 |
| Heart failure (HF) 30-Day Readmission RateUnplanned return visits | 19.9 · 1,148 cases | None | Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 |
| Hospital return days for heart attack patientsUnplanned return visits | 3.9 · 300 cases | None | Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 |
| Hospital return days for heart failure patientsUnplanned return visits | 19.6 · 561 cases | None | Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 |
| Hospital return days for pneumonia patientsUnplanned return visits | 10.6 · 437 cases | None | Jul 2022 – Jun 2025 |
| Pneumonia (PN) 30-Day Readmission RateUnplanned return visits | 15.9 · 954 cases | None | Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 |
| Rate of emergency department (ED) visits for patients receiving outpatient chemotherapyUnplanned return visits | 4.7 (3.8 to 5.8) · 847 cases | No different | Jan 2024 – Dec 2024 |
| Rate of readmission for CABGUnplanned return visits | 9.5 · 143 cases | None | Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 |
| Rate of readmission for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patientsUnplanned return visits | 19.5 · 426 cases | None | Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 |
| Rate of unplanned hospital visits after colonoscopy (per 1,000 colonoscopies)Unplanned return visits | 12.5 (9.5 to 16.4) · 696 cases | No different | Jan 2022 – Dec 2024 |
| Ratio of unplanned hospital visits after hospital outpatient surgeryUnplanned return visits | 1 (0.7 to 1.3) · 573 cases | No different | Jan 2024 – Dec 2024 |
What patients said (393 patients answered, 21% of those asked)
| Cleanliness | 4 |
| Nurse communication | 3 |
| Doctor communication | 2 |
| Communication about medicines | 2 |
| Discharge information | 4 |
| Overall hospital rating | 3 |
| Quietness | 2 |
| Recommend hospital | 3 |
| Room was "always" clean | 71% |
| Nurses "always" communicated well | 77% |
| Doctors "always" communicated well | 75% |
| Staff "always" explained | 55% |
| Yes, staff "did" give patients this information | 87% |
| Yes, staff "did" give patients information about help after discharge | 87% |
| Doctors "always" explained things so they could understand | 69% |
| Doctors "always" listened carefully | 74% |
| Doctors "always" treated them with courtesy and respect | 83% |
| Patients who gave a rating of "9" or "10" (high) | 67% |
| Staff "always" explained new medications | 69% |
| Nurses "always" explained things so they could understand | 73% |
| Nurses "always" listened carefully | 76% |
| Nurses "always" treated them with courtesy and respect | 83% |
| "Always" quiet at night | 42% |
| "YES", patients would definitely recommend the hospital | 69% |
| Staff "always" explained possible side effects | 40% |
| Yes, staff "did" give patients information about possible symptoms | 87% |
Original Medicare doctor bills
$18,522
Medicare paid this office $18,522 for 19 people.
This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.
Who their Medicare patients are
19 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 73 · Health risk score 1.77. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical neurosurgery clinician is at 1.46.
Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75%.
The office billed $104,560, Medicare allowed $23,231 and paid $18,522; for 28 services of 15 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.
Money from drug and device companies
$527 in 2025
| 2025 | 1 | 4 | None | $527 |
| 2024 | 1 | 2 | None | $343 |
| 2023 | 3 | 5 | None | $420 |
Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.
A payment is not proof that care is biased.
| Stryker | Core | $527 | 4 payments
|
See all 4 published payments
| Stryker | Meals · 2025-05-24 | Core | $17 |
| Stryker | Travel · 2025-05-23 | Core | $309 |
| Stryker | Meals · 2025-05-22 | Core | $164 |
| Stryker | Meals · 2025-05-16 | Core | $37 |
See earlier years (2024, 2023)
2024: $343
| Stryker | None | $343 | 2 payments
|
2023: $420
| Stryker | Core | $342 | 2 payments
|
| Medtronic | Midas Rex | $60 | 2 payments
|
| Merz North America | None | $18 | 1 payment
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Checkups this office reported
Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.
- Medicare’s overall office score
- 76.5 / 100
- Scores the office’s reporting and systems. It is not a grade for how the doctor treats you.
Professional record
- NPI
- 1972913093
- Licence
- CA A176964, MA 263282, RI MD19610California A176964: Delinquent · expires 2024-03-31
- Trained
- Stanford University School of Medicine, 2015
- Group
- Lifespan Physician Group Inc · Rhode Island Hospital
- Video visits
- Lists video visits
- Gender
- Female
More record details
- Sole proprietor
- Yes
- Taxonomy
- Federal specialty code 207T00000X (207T00000X)
- Mailing address
- 117 Ellenfield St Ste 101, Providence, RI, 02905
- NPI first listed
- 2014-04-28
- NPI last updated
- 2024-01-09
- NPI record certified
- 2024-01-09
This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.
Extra NPI addresses: 300 Pasteur Dr, Stanford, CA, 94305