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Kirsten Vin-Christian, MD

Individual provider Dermatology Physician · NPI 1598838633

Kirsten Vin-Christian, MD is registered under Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery (Mds) in Palo Alto, California. Graduated from University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine in 1993, 33 years ago. Practices with Sutter Bay Medical Foundation, a 3,762-clinician group and accepts Medicare assignment. Licensed in California.

Years since qualifying
33
Trained at
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Licensed in
CA
In the registry since
2006
What do these letters mean?
MD — Doctor of Medicine
A physician who completed allopathic medical school.

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Practice location Address checks out

795 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA 94301-2302
Phone: (650) 321-4121
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Specialties & licences

Dermatology Physician (primary) Taxonomy 207N00000X · Licence G81084 (CA)

Record details

NPI number1598838633
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderFemale
Credentials MD
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedNovember 16, 2006
Last updated in NPPESMarch 4, 2020
Certification dateMarch 4, 2020

Medicare enrollment

From the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file — this clinician is enrolled in Medicare.

Medicare specialtyMICROGRAPHIC DERMATOLOGIC SURGERY (MDS)
Medical schoolUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Graduated 1993 (33 years in practice)
Group practice Sutter Bay Medical Foundation — 3762 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount
Practice locations2 on file with Medicare

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

Melanoma (skin cancer) excision 36 times · 83rd percentile
Removal of skin lesions 107 times · 76th percentile
Removal or shaving of skin growth 21 times · 71st percentile
Removal of skin cancer 543 times · 64th percentile
Skin biopsy 22 times · 64th percentile

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Medicare patients340
Services billed 1,062 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age80

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Colleagues at Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 3762 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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