Derek Ho

  • Long Beach, CA
  • Dermatologist
NPI1265973689PAC ID9133452501
Medicare services, 2024
1,921
Medicare patients, 2024
243
Part D claims, 2024
806
Publications
71
Clinical trials
2
Practice address
3800 Kilroy Airport Way, Long Beach, CA 90806
Practice phone
Call (626) 513-2619
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Primary practice

Bespoke Dermatology & Aesthetics

Long Beach, California

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Derek Ho is a dermatologist in Long Beach, California

Derek Ho practices at Bespoke Dermatology & Aesthetics in Long Beach, California.

Derek Ho's NPI, 1265973689, was assigned on March 17, 2017. Derek Ho graduated from SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in 2017. Derek Ho holds California license A171259.

NPI and contact details
Medicare PAC ID
9133452501
NPI enumeration date
March 17, 2017
NPI status
Active
Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes
Practice phone
(626) 513-2619
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Sex
Male
Estimated age
35
Medical school graduation
2017

Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; Dmand AI Practice Data; and Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS)

Derek Ho practices at Bespoke Dermatology & Aesthetics in Long Beach, California

Derek Ho's primary practice is Bespoke Dermatology & Aesthetics, at 3800 Kilroy Airport Way, Long Beach, CA 90806 in Los Angeles County. The practice phone is (626) 513-2619.

  • Bespoke Dermatology & Aesthetics
    3800 Kilroy Airport Way, Long Beach, CA 90806 · Los Angeles CountyPhone(626) 513-2619

Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); and Dmand AI Practice Data

Derek Ho is affiliated with 2 sites of care and 2 medical groups

Derek Ho's primary practice is Bespoke Dermatology & Aesthetics in Long Beach, California. The medical group on file is Bespoke Dermatology & Aesthetics. Dmand AI also links Derek Ho to 1 more group practice or clinic and 1 medical group, each named with a free account.

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Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Practice Data; and Dmand AI Affiliation Data

Dmand AI tracks the EHR system at Derek Ho's practice

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EHR by site
SiteEHR vendor and product
Bespoke Dermatology & AestheticsAvailable with a free account
+1 more site and 1 medical groupAvailable with a free account

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Derek Ho is one of 1,910 dermatologists in California

Dermatology is Derek Ho's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 207N00000X. Derek Ho is board certified in dermatology by the American Board of Dermatology. Dmand AI has Derek Ho's licenses on file in 2 states: California and New York.

Specialties and state licenses

  • Dermatology, CaliforniaPrimaryLicense A171259 · 2021 to 2027 · taxonomy 207N00000X
  • New York license2020 to 2022

Clinical focus

Dmand AI lists acne, acute skin infection, benign or precancerous skin growths, cold sores or genital herpes, contact dermatitis, itchy rashes, joint cyst and minor head injury among the conditions Derek Ho treats.

Dermatologists near Derek Ho

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Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; and Dmand AI Peer Benchmarks

Derek Ho billed Medicare for 1,921 services in 2024

CMS data shows 1,921 Medicare services from Derek Ho across 12 procedure codes in 2024, for 243 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $91,619 for them. Every service was in an office.

Medicare services, 20241,921
Medicare patients243
Paid by Medicare$91,619
Procedure codes12

Derek Ho's Medicare services by type, 2023 to 2024

  • 2023
  • 2024
Surgery
2023: 2,2962024: 1,38740%
Office and hospital visits
2023: 6922024: 41840%
Drugs given in the office
2023: 02024: 90
Tests and treatments
2023: 02024: 26

Derek Ho compared with the California median for dermatologists, 2024

  • Derek Ho
  • California median
Medicare services
1,921vs 1,75010% above
Medicare patients
243vs 37736% below
Part D claims
645vs 36776% above

Medians across 1,831 dermatologists in California with Dmand AI profiles that report each measure.

Derek Ho's most billed Medicare procedure codes, 2024

CMS publishes codes billed for 11 or more Medicare patients. Each label is the code family; CPT descriptions are licensed by the AMA.

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Sources: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider and Service (CMS), 2024 data; and Dmand AI Peer Benchmarks

Derek Ho treated 243 Medicare patients in 2024, average age 75

CMS counts 243 Medicare patients who saw Derek Ho in 2024. The largest group is 65 to 74, with 120 patients. 75% of them have high cholesterol, and 70% have high blood pressure. 11% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 1.01, where 1.00 is the Medicare average.

Across all payers, Dmand AI patient panel data puts Derek Ho's median patient age at 55, with 52% women.

Medicare patients, 2024243
Average age75
Average risk score1.01
Also on Medicaid11%

Derek Ho's Medicare patients by age, 2024

CMS leaves out age groups with fewer than 11 patients.

Derek Ho's Medicare patients by sex, 2024

  • Women10443%
  • Men13957%

Chronic conditions among Derek Ho's Medicare patients, 2024

  1. High cholesterol75%
  2. High blood pressure70%
  3. Arthritis46%
  4. Diabetes28%
  5. Chronic kidney disease23%
  6. Ischemic heart disease23%
  7. Atrial fibrillation18%
  8. Osteoporosis17%

Share of Medicare patients with each condition. A patient can have several.

Derek Ho's patients across all payers

Dmand AI patient panel data covers Medicare, Medicaid and commercial patients.

Patient panel by age, all payers

Median age 55

Patient panel by sex, all payers

  • Women52%
  • Men47%

Sources: Dmand AI Patient Panel Data; and Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS), 2024 data

Derek Ho wrote 806 Medicare Part D claims in 2024

In 2024, Derek Ho wrote 806 Medicare Part D claims for 275 patients. 86% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 645 of them, across 16 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $122,909 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 575 claims across 12 drugs.

Part D claims, 2024806
Drugs named by CMS16
Total drug cost$122,909
Part D patients275

Derek Ho's Part D claims by kind of drug, 2024

  • Generic695 claims86%
  • Brand-name111 claims14%

Derek Ho's most prescribed drugs by claims, 2024

CMS names a drug when it has 11 or more claims. Share is of the claims for drugs CMS names.

Drug classes CMS tracks in Derek Ho's Part D claims, 2024

  • Antibiotics2%19 of 806 claims

Share of all Part D claims for each drug class CMS reports on. Classes with no claims are left out.

Part D claims for drugs CMS names, 2023 to 2024

  • 2023
  • 2024
Claims for drugs CMS names
2023: 5752024: 64512%

Drugs named by CMS: 16 in 2024, 12 in 2023.

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Sources: Medicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider and Drug (CMS), 2024 data, released May 6, 2026; and Medicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider (CMS), 2024 data

Derek Ho scored 94 out of 100 in Medicare's MIPS program for 2024

CMS publishes a Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) score of 94 out of 100 for Derek Ho for performance year 2024, reported as part of a group. Derek Ho accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment. CMS counts 904 procedures of removal of skin lesions by Derek Ho, more than 92% of the clinicians it reports for that procedure.

Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes

Derek Ho's MIPS scores, performance year 2024

  • 94of 100Final score
  • 100of 100Quality
  • 40of 100Improvement Activities
  • 80of 100Cost

Each score is out of 100. The final score weighs the categories CMS scored for this clinician.

Where Derek Ho ranks in Medicare procedure volume

Removal of skin lesions
92nd percentile904 procedures
Skin biopsy
89th percentile265 procedures

CMS ranks each clinician against every clinician it reports for the same procedure category.

Melanoma (skin cancer) excision: 1 to 10 procedures (CMS shows small counts as a range)

Removal or shaving of skin growth: 1 to 10 procedures (CMS shows small counts as a range)

Sources: Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS); Clinician Public Reporting: Overall MIPS Performance (CMS), 2024 data, released September 10, 2026; and Doctors and Clinicians Utilization Data (CMS)

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Derek Ho has 71 publications on record

Dmand AI links 71 papers to Derek Ho, published from 2003 to 2021. 2014 was the busiest year, with 5. The most frequent topics are Cosmetic Techniques, Lasers, Gas and Low-Level Light Therapy. Derek Ho has published most often in J Drugs Dermatol. Derek Ho's most frequent co-authors are Jared Jagdeo, MD, Andrew David Mamalis, MD and Roslyn Rivkah Isseroff, MD.

Papers71
Years published2003 to 2021

Derek Ho's papers by year, 2010 to 2021

Topics Derek Ho writes about most

  • Cosmetic Techniques
  • Lasers, Gas
  • Low-Level Light Therapy
  • Skin
  • Fluorescent Dyes
  • Hyaluronic Acid
  • Skin Aging
  • Equipment Design

Derek Ho's most frequent co-authors

Recent publications by Derek Ho

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Sources: PubMed (National Library of Medicine); and Dmand AI Research Linkage

Derek Ho has worked on 2 clinical trials

Dmand AI links Derek Ho to 2 clinical trials, 2 of them phase 1 studies. Conditions studied include Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Keloid and Hypertrophy. Jared Jagdeo, MD, MS sponsors the most, 2.

Conditions in Derek Ho's trials

  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
  • Keloid
  • Hypertrophy
  • Slow Virus Diseases

Investigators on the most trials with Derek Ho

Recent clinical trials with Derek Ho

Sources: Dmand AI Research Linkage; and ClinicalTrials.gov (National Library of Medicine)

Derek Ho received $47,078 in industry payments from 2019 to 2025

CMS Open Payments shows 836 general payments to Derek Ho from 28 drug and device companies from 2019 to 2025. Food and beverage make up the largest share, 47% of the total. Pfizer Inc. paid the most, $16,162.

General payments to Derek Ho by program year, 2019 to 2025

General payments to Derek Ho by kind, 2019 to 2025

$47.1Kin total
  • Food and beverage$22,18747%
  • Consulting fees$16,89336%
  • Speaker and faculty fees$7,38716%
  • Travel and lodging$4091%
  • Education$2020%

Companies that paid Derek Ho the most, 2019 to 2025

Share is of all general payments to this clinician.

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Source: Open Payments (CMS), 2025 data, released July 7, 2026

Derek Ho has 4 awards and honors on record

Dmand AI lists 4 awards for Derek Ho, most recently Vic Narurkar, MD, Resident Scholarship Award in 2020.

Awards and honors for Derek Ho

  1. 2020
    • Vic Narurkar, MD, Resident Scholarship Award
  2. 2017
    • M.D. with Distinction in Research
  3. 2016
    • Fondation Bioderma Award - Best Poster Communication
  4. 2010
    • B.S. with General & Departmental Honors

Source: Dmand AI Professional Profile Data

Derek Ho graduated from SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University

Derek Ho graduated from SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in 2017. Derek Ho is a member of AAD, ASDS, ASLMS and WDS.

  1. Medical schoolSUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
  2. Board certified in dermatologyAmerican Board of Dermatology

Source: Dmand AI Professional Profile Data

Derek Ho accepts plans from 10 insurance carriers

Derek Ho is in network with 10 carriers, including Aetna, Elevance and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. Medicare plans come from the most carriers, 9. Check the plan with the practice before a visit.

Plan types Derek Ho accepts, by number of carriers

  1. Medicare9
  2. HMO6
  3. PPO6
  4. POS3
  5. EPO2
  6. Medicaid1

Source: Dmand AI Insurance Network Data

Sources for Derek Ho's profile data

Sources for the data on this page
Data on this pageSource
NPI, name, sex, specialty and licensesNPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Professional Profile Data
Practice locations and phoneNPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Practice Data
Primary practice, affiliations and health systemNPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Practice DataDmand AI Affiliation Data
Medicare services and procedure codesMedicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider and Service (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
State medians for the same specialtyDmand AI Peer Benchmarks
Medicare patients and the all-payer patient panelDmand AI Patient Panel DataMedicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
Part D prescribingMedicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider and Drug (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Medicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
MIPS scores, telehealth, assignment and procedure percentilesDoctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Clinician Public Reporting: Overall MIPS Performance (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Doctors and Clinicians Utilization Data (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
Publications, topics and co-authorsPubMed (National Library of Medicine) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Research Linkage
Clinical trials and co-investigatorsDmand AI Research LinkageClinicalTrials.gov (National Library of Medicine) (opens in a new tab)
Industry paymentsOpen Payments (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
Awards and committee rolesDmand AI Professional Profile Data
Training, board certification and membershipsDmand AI Professional Profile Data
Insurance carriers and plan typesDmand AI Insurance Network Data
EHR at each practice siteDmand AI Technology Install Data
Similar physiciansDmand AI Affiliation Data

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What is Derek Ho's NPI number?

Derek Ho's NPI number is 1265973689. It was assigned on March 17, 2017, and it is active in the NPI Registry.

What does Derek Ho specialize in?

Derek Ho is a dermatologist in Long Beach, California. The primary specialty in the NPI Registry is Dermatology Physician (taxonomy code 207N00000X).

Where does Derek Ho practice?

Derek Ho practices at 3800 Kilroy Airport Way, Long Beach, CA 90806. Derek Ho's primary practice is Bespoke Dermatology & Aesthetics in Long Beach, California. Dmand AI also links Derek Ho to 1 group practice or clinic and 1 medical group.

What is Derek Ho's office phone number?

The practice phone on file for Derek Ho is (626) 513-2619.

What is Derek Ho's medical license number?

Derek Ho holds California license A171259, one of the licenses on file in 2 states.

Which states has Derek Ho been licensed in?

Dmand AI has state licenses on file for Derek Ho in California (2021 to 2027) and New York (2020 to 2022).

What medical group is Derek Ho part of?

Derek Ho is linked to Bespoke Dermatology & Aesthetics. Dmand AI links Derek Ho to 1 more medical group.

Does Derek Ho accept Medicare?

Yes. CMS data shows Derek Ho billed Medicare for 1,921 services in 2024, and Derek Ho accepts Medicare assignment.

What is Derek Ho's MIPS score?

Derek Ho's MIPS final score for performance year 2024 is 94 out of 100, reported as part of a group.

How many Medicare patients does Derek Ho see?

CMS counts 243 Medicare patients who saw Derek Ho in 2024, with an average age of 75.

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Is Derek Ho board certified?

Yes. Derek Ho is board certified in dermatology by the American Board of Dermatology.

What services does Derek Ho bill to Medicare?

In 2024, Derek Ho's most billed Medicare services were surgery: skin and soft tissue (17003), office visit, established patient (99214) and surgery: skin and soft tissue (17000).

Where did Derek Ho go to medical school?

Derek Ho graduated from SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in 2017.

What drugs does Derek Ho prescribe most?

In 2024 Medicare Part D data, Derek Ho's most prescribed drugs by claims were Ketoconazole, Triamcinolone Acetonide and Mometasone Furoate.

Has Derek Ho received payments from drug or device companies?

CMS Open Payments shows $47,078 in general payments to Derek Ho from 28 companies from 2019 to 2025. The largest total came from Pfizer Inc.

How long has Derek Ho been practicing?

Derek Ho graduated from medical school in 2017, 9 years ago.

Does Derek Ho do research?

Dmand AI links 71 publications to Derek Ho, published from 2003 to 2021. Derek Ho has worked on 2 clinical trials.

Who does Derek Ho publish with?

Derek Ho's most frequent co-authors are Jared Jagdeo, MD (29 shared papers), Andrew David Mamalis, MD (9 shared papers) and Roslyn Rivkah Isseroff, MD (4 shared papers).

What insurance does Derek Ho accept?

Derek Ho is in network with 10 carriers, including Aetna, Elevance and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. Medicare plans come from the most carriers, 9. Check the plan with the practice before a visit.

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