Provider records sourced from NPPES (CMS National Plan & Provider Enumeration System). Data current as of October 4, 2026.
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Dr. Peter Ford, MD

Individual provider Dermatology Physician · NPI 1164451639

Dr. Peter Ford, MD practises Dermatology in Santa Barbara, California. Graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1995, 31 years ago. Practices with Sansum Clinic, a 320-clinician group, accepts Medicare assignment and offers telehealth. Licensed in California.

Years since qualifying
31
Trained at
Tufts University 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

317 W Pueblo St
Santa Barbara, CA 93105-4355 Not confirmed with CMS for 15 years — call before visiting
Phone: (805) 681-1761
Fax: (805) 681-1768
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Specialties & licences

Dermatology Physician (primary) Taxonomy 207N00000X · Licence A68809 (CA)

Record details

NPI number1164451639
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderMale
Credentials MD
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedJune 30, 2006
Last updated in NPPESOctober 31, 2011

Medicare enrollment

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

Medicare specialtyDERMATOLOGY
Medical schoolTUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Graduated 1995 (31 years in practice)
Group practice Sansum Clinic — 320 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount
TelehealthOffers telehealth services

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.

Removal of skin lesions 2,409 times · 98th percentile
Skin biopsy 559 times · 96th percentile
Melanoma (skin cancer) excision 34 times · 82nd percentile
Removal or shaving of skin growth 16 times · 69th 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 patients1,280
Services billed 7,821 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age75

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.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Food and Beverage $730 33 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee
Education $10 1 payment · educational material or training, not a fee

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

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Colleagues at Sansum Clinic

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 320 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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