David B Anderson, MD

1 location · Pih Health Physicians · 616 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: Pih Health Hospital-Whittier. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

Licence G56515 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 1985 · expires 2027-05-31 · University of California, Irvine College of Medicine.

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

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

1 hospital

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

• Pih Health Hospital-WhittierWhittier, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of PIH Health, which runs 3 hospitalsPatients rate it 4 of 5 · 79% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.497, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$20,088

Medicare paid this office $20,088 for 81 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

Who their Medicare patients are

81 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 72 · Women 49% · Also on Medicaid 67% · Health risk score 3.96. Sicker patients than 9 in 10 peers; the typical general surgery clinician is at 1.69.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 53% · Chronic kidney disease 46% · Coronary heart disease 42% · Heart failure 37% · Depression 33% · Atrial fibrillation 30% · COPD 26% · Dementia 25% · Cancer 23%.

The office billed $66,553, Medicare allowed $25,189 and paid $20,088; for 106 services of 23 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.

$444 in 2024

Medicaid paid $444 for 24 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 12 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.

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

Opioids were 35% of their 84 Part D prescriptions in 2015. Surgeons prescribe little besides pain medicine after an operation, so their opioid share runs high.

Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.

Year by year

Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.

$161 in 2024

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

1992891808

Licence

CA G56515, NM MD2014-0254California G56515: Current · expires 2027-05-31

Trained

University of California, Irvine, California College of Medicine, 1984 · 42 years ago

Group

Pih Health Physicians

Gender

Male