Dr. Minzi Chen, MD

  • Woodland, CA
  • Rheumatologist
NPI1922269067PAC ID0042471351
Medicare services, 2024
3,627
Medicare patients, 2024
544
Part D claims, 2024
2,942
Publications
1
MIPS score, 2024
100
Practice address
632 W. Gibson Rd, Woodland, CA 95695
Practice phone
Call (530) 668-2632
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Primary practice

Primary & Specialty Care - Dignity Health Woodland Clinic

Mammography / Breast Imaging Center · Woodland, California

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Dr. Minzi Chen is a rheumatologist in Woodland, California

Dr. Chen practices at Primary & Specialty Care - Dignity Health Woodland Clinic in Woodland, California.

Dr. Chen's NPI, 1922269067, was assigned on June 20, 2008. Dr. Chen graduated from Shanghai Medical University in 1997. Dr. Chen holds California license A118145.

NPI and contact details
Medicare PAC ID
0042471351
NPI enumeration date
June 20, 2008
NPI status
Active
Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes
Offers telehealth
Yes
Practice phone
(530) 668-2632
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Sex
Female
Estimated age
55
Medical school graduation
1997

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

Dr. Minzi Chen practices at Primary & Specialty Care - Dignity Health Woodland Clinic in Woodland, California

Dr. Chen's primary practice is Primary & Specialty Care - Dignity Health Woodland Clinic, at 632 W. Gibson Rd, Woodland, CA 95695. The practice phone is (530) 668-2632.

  • Primary & Specialty Care - Dignity Health Woodland Clinic
    632 W. Gibson Rd, Woodland, CA 95695Phone(530) 668-2632

Source: Dmand AI Affiliation Data

Dr. Minzi Chen is affiliated with 7 sites of care and 1 medical group

Dr. Chen's primary practice is Primary & Specialty Care - Dignity Health Woodland Clinic in Woodland, California. Dr. Chen is also affiliated with Dignity Health - Woodland Memorial Hospital. The medical group on file is Mercy Medical Group. Dmand AI also links Dr. Chen to 4 more hospitals and 1 group practice or clinic, each named with a free account. Dr. Chen's employer is on file too: a breast imaging center.

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Dmand AI tracks the EHR system at Dr. Minzi Chen's practice

Dmand AI tracks the electronic health record (EHR) system at each site where Dr. Chen practices, 7 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.

EHR by site
SiteEHR vendor and product
Primary & Specialty Care - Dignity Health Woodland ClinicAvailable with a free account
+6 more affiliated sitesAvailable with a free account

Source: Dmand AI Technology Install Data

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Dr. Minzi Chen is one of 821 rheumatologists in California

Rheumatology is Dr. Chen's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 207RR0500X. Dr. Chen is board certified in internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dmand AI has Dr. Chen's licenses on file in 3 states: California, Oregon and Louisiana.

Specialties and state licenses

  • Rheumatology, CaliforniaPrimaryLicense A118145 · 2000 to 2027 · taxonomy 207RR0500X
  • Oregon license2021 to 2025
  • Louisiana license2011 to 2015

Clinical focus

Dmand AI lists arteritis, arthritis, fluid in a joint, gout, joint arthropathy, joint pain, lupus and muscle disease among the conditions Dr. Chen treats.

Rheumatologists near Dr. Chen

Counts of rheumatologists with a Dmand AI profile, by place and practice. Each opens the list.

821rheumatologists in California
3rheumatologists in Woodland

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

Dr. Minzi Chen billed Medicare for 3,627 services in 2024

CMS data shows 3,627 Medicare services from Dr. Chen across 13 procedure codes in 2024, for 544 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $183,345 for them. Every service was in an office.

Medicare services, 20243,627
Medicare patients544
Paid by Medicare$183,345
Procedure codes13

Dr. Chen's Medicare services by type, 2023 to 2024

  • 2023
  • 2024
Drugs given in the office
2023: 1042024: 2,1361954%
Office and hospital visits
2023: 1,3832024: 1,3941%
Tests and treatments
2023: 02024: 45
Surgery
2023: 352024: 363%
Other services
2023: 02024: 16

Dr. Chen compared with the California median for rheumatologists, 2024

  • Dr. Chen
  • California median
Medicare services
3,627vs 9004.0 times
Medicare patients
544vs 2162.5 times
Part D claims
2,755vs 9622.9 times

Medians across 773 rheumatologists in California with Dmand AI profiles that report each measure.

Dr. Chen'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

Dr. Minzi Chen treated 544 Medicare patients in 2024, average age 72

CMS counts 544 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Chen in 2024. The largest group is 65 to 74, with 258 patients. 75% of them have arthritis, and 74% have high blood pressure. 32% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 1.32, where 1.00 is the Medicare average.

Across all payers, Dmand AI patient panel data puts Dr. Chen's median patient age at 62, with 74% women.

Medicare patients, 2024544
Average age72
Average risk score1.32
Also on Medicaid32%

Dr. Chen's Medicare patients by age, 2024

Dr. Chen's Medicare patients by sex, 2024

  • Women40474%
  • Men14026%

Chronic conditions among Dr. Chen's Medicare patients, 2024

  1. Arthritis75%
  2. High blood pressure74%
  3. High cholesterol74%
  4. Osteoporosis38%
  5. Diabetes29%
  6. Mood disorders25%
  7. Anxiety24%
  8. Chronic kidney disease24%

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

Dr. Chen's patients across all payers

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Patient panel by age, all payers

Median age 62

Patient panel by sex, all payers

  • Women74%
  • Men25%

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

Dr. Minzi Chen wrote 2,942 Medicare Part D claims in 2024

In 2024, Dr. Chen wrote 2,942 Medicare Part D claims for 434 patients. 79% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 2,755 of them, across 28 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $3,081,909 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 2,386 claims across 27 drugs.

Part D claims, 20242,942
Drugs named by CMS28
Total drug cost$3.1M
Part D patients434

Dr. Chen's Part D claims by kind of drug, 2024

  • Generic2,325 claims79%
  • Brand-name and other617 claims21%

Dr. Chen'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 Dr. Chen's Part D claims, 2024

  • Antibiotics1%30 of 2,942 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: 2,3862024: 2,75515%

Drugs named by CMS: 28 in 2024, 27 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

Dr. Minzi Chen scored 100 out of 100 in Medicare's MIPS program for 2024

CMS publishes a Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) score of 100 out of 100 for Dr. Chen for performance year 2024, reported through an alternative payment model (APM). Dr. Chen accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment. CMS lists Dr. Chen as offering telehealth.

Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes
Offers telehealth
Yes

Dr. Chen's MIPS scores, performance year 2024

  • 100of 100Final score
  • 86.3of 100Quality
  • 100of 100Promoting Interoperability
  • 40of 100Improvement Activities

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

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

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Dr. Minzi Chen has 1 publication on record

Dmand AI links 1 paper to Dr. Chen. Dr. Chen's most frequent co-authors are William E. Davis, Austin Michael Fraser, MD and Robert J. Quinet, MD.

Papers1

Dr. Chen's most frequent co-authors

Recent publications by Dr. Chen

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Dr. Minzi Chen received $3,464 in industry payments from 2016 to 2025

CMS Open Payments shows 69 general payments to Dr. Chen from 14 drug and device companies from 2016 to 2025. Food and beverage make up the largest share, 91% of the total. Amgen Inc. paid the most, $1,013.

General payments to Dr. Chen by program year, 2016 to 2025

General payments to Dr. Chen by kind, 2016 to 2025

$3.5Kin total
  • Food and beverage$3,13991%
  • Consulting fees$2407%
  • Education$852%

Companies that paid Dr. Chen the most, 2016 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

Dr. Minzi Chen graduated from Shanghai Medical University

Dr. Chen graduated from Shanghai Medical University in 1997.

  1. Medical schoolShanghai Medical University
  2. Board certified in internal medicineAmerican Board of Internal Medicine
  3. Board certified in rheumatologyAmerican Board of Internal Medicine

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Dr. Minzi Chen accepts plans from 12 insurance carriers

Dr. Chen is in network with 12 carriers, including Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and United Healthcare. PPO plans come from the most carriers, 9. Check the plan with the practice before a visit.

  • Aetna
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
  • United Healthcare
  • Elevance
  • HCSC
  • Alliant Health Plans
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
  • Regence Health Plans
  • +4 more carriersWith a free account

Plan types Dr. Chen accepts, by number of carriers

  1. PPO9
  2. Medicare7
  3. HMO6
  4. POS4
  5. EPO3

Source: Dmand AI Insurance Network Data

Sources for Dr. Minzi Chen'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 phoneDmand AI Affiliation Data
Primary practice, affiliations and health systemDmand AI Affiliation DataDmand AI Org Hierarchy 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)
Publications, topics and co-authorsPubMed (National Library of Medicine) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Research Linkage
Industry paymentsOpen Payments (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
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 Dr. Minzi Chen's NPI number?

Dr. Minzi Chen's NPI number is 1922269067. It was assigned on June 20, 2008, and it is active in the NPI Registry.

What kind of doctor is Dr. Minzi Chen?

Dr. Minzi Chen is a rheumatologist in Woodland, California. The primary specialty in the NPI Registry is Rheumatology Physician (taxonomy code 207RR0500X).

Where does Dr. Minzi Chen practice?

Dr. Chen practices at 632 W. Gibson Rd, Woodland, CA 95695. Dr. Chen's primary practice is Primary & Specialty Care - Dignity Health Woodland Clinic in Woodland, California. Dmand AI also links Dr. Chen to 4 hospitals and 1 group practice or clinic.

What is Dr. Minzi Chen's office phone number?

The practice phone on file for Dr. Chen is (530) 668-2632.

What is Dr. Minzi Chen's medical license number?

Dr. Chen holds California license A118145, one of the licenses on file in 3 states.

Which states has Dr. Minzi Chen been licensed in?

Dmand AI has state licenses on file for Dr. Chen in California (2000 to 2027), Oregon (2021 to 2025) and Louisiana (2011 to 2015).

Which hospitals is Dr. Minzi Chen affiliated with?

Dr. Chen is affiliated with Dignity Health - Woodland Memorial Hospital. Dmand AI links Dr. Chen to 4 more hospitals.

What medical group is Dr. Minzi Chen part of?

Dr. Chen is linked to Mercy Medical Group.

Does Dr. Minzi Chen accept Medicare?

Yes. CMS data shows Dr. Chen billed Medicare for 3,627 services in 2024, and Dr. Chen accepts Medicare assignment.

Does Dr. Minzi Chen offer telehealth?

Yes. The CMS Doctors and Clinicians file lists Dr. Chen as offering telehealth services.

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What is Dr. Minzi Chen's MIPS score?

Dr. Chen's MIPS final score for performance year 2024 is 100 out of 100, reported through an alternative payment model (APM).

How many Medicare patients does Dr. Minzi Chen see?

CMS counts 544 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Chen in 2024, with an average age of 72.

Is Dr. Minzi Chen board certified?

Yes. Dr. Chen is board certified in internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

What services does Dr. Minzi Chen bill to Medicare?

In 2024, Dr. Chen's most billed Medicare services were injected or infused drug (J0897), office visit, established patient (99214) and office visit, established patient (99213).

Where did Dr. Minzi Chen go to medical school?

Dr. Chen graduated from Shanghai Medical University in 1997.

What drugs does Dr. Minzi Chen prescribe most?

In 2024 Medicare Part D data, Dr. Chen's most prescribed drugs by claims were Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate, Alendronate Sodium and Methotrexate.

Has Dr. Minzi Chen received payments from drug or device companies?

CMS Open Payments shows $3,464 in general payments to Dr. Chen from 14 companies from 2016 to 2025. The largest total came from Amgen Inc.

How long has Dr. Minzi Chen been practicing?

Dr. Chen graduated from medical school in 1997, 29 years ago.

Does Dr. Minzi Chen do research?

Dmand AI links 1 publication to Dr. Chen.

Who does Dr. Minzi Chen publish with?

Dr. Chen's most frequent co-authors are William E. Davis (1 shared paper), Austin Michael Fraser, MD (1 shared paper) and Robert J. Quinet, MD (1 shared paper).

What insurance does Dr. Minzi Chen accept?

Dr. Chen is in network with 12 carriers, including Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and United Healthcare. PPO plans come from the most carriers, 9. Check the plan with the practice before a visit.

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