Walter Chang, NP
Nurse Practitioner · Sacramento
- Medicare standing
- Clear
- Enrolled, allowed to bill and order, not excluded
- Plans that list them
- Not verified
- Not the same as out of network.
- Offices
- 2
- Since medical school
- 5 years
- Graduated 2021
Offices
2 locations · Regents of the University of California · 562 clinicians in this group
Plan participation
Not verified
We could not verify current plan participation for this doctor. This does not mean they are out of network. Call Walter Chang’s office at (916) 734-3574 to ask if they take your plan before you enroll.
Original Medicare doctor bills
$5,476
Medicare paid this office $5,476 for 15 people.
This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.
| Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation with medical services | 13 | $1,629 | $125 |
| Psychotherapy with evaluation and management visit, 30 minutes | 11 | $1,237 | $49 |
Who their Medicare patients are
15 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 71 · Health risk score 1.01. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical nurse practitioner clinician is at 1.42.
Conditions among them: Depression 73%.
The office billed $27,892, Medicare allowed $7,046 and paid $5,476; for 82 services of 8 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.
Drugs they prescribed that Part D paid
$3,478
Pharmacies billed $3,478 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 127) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical nurse practitioner clinician is at 0%.
123 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $3,478 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.
| Bupropion Xl | 22 | $203 | $9 |
| Escitalopram | 18 | $89 | $5 |
| Hydroxyzine | 12 | $75 | $6 |
Year by year
| 2024 | 127 | 20 | 0% (0) | None | $3,478 |
| 2023 | 89 | None | 0% (0) | None | $2,575 |
Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.
See the drugs prescribed each year
2023: 2 drugs
| Hydroxyzine | 12 | $140 | $12 |
| Escitalopram | 17 | $109 | $6 |
Money from drug and device companies
$40 in 2024
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | None | $40 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 | None | $45 |
Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.
A payment is not proof that care is biased.
| Neurocrine Biosciences | Ingrezza | $26 | 1 payment
|
| Janssen Pharmaceuticals | Spravato | $14 | 1 payment
|
See all 2 published payments
| Janssen Pharmaceuticals | Meals · 2024-02-21 | Spravato | $14 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences | Meals · 2024-01-26 | Ingrezza | $26 |
See earlier years (2023)
2023: $45
| Abbvie | Vraylar | $24 | 1 payment
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| Neurocrine Biosciences | Ingrezza | $20 | 1 payment
|
Checkups this office reported
Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.
- Medicare’s overall office score
- 90.7 / 100
- Scores the office’s reporting and systems. It is not a grade for how the doctor treats you.
Professional record
- NPI
- 1982142691
- Licence
- MN 8654, MN R-228642-4
- Video visits
- Lists video visits
- Gender
- Male
More record details
- Sole proprietor
- No
- Taxonomy
- Federal specialty code 363LP0808X (363LP0808X)
- Mailing address
- 1517 H St Apt 402, Sacramento, CA, 95814
- NPI first listed
- 2017-02-02
- NPI last updated
- 2025-05-02
- NPI record certified
- 2025-05-02
This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.