Patient expectations and decisional regret in the management of ventral hernias (opens in a new tab)
Surg Endosc
Primary practice
Health Partners Hospice & Palliative Care
Hospice - Home Health Agency-Owned · Bloomington, Minnesota
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Dr. Holden practices at Health Partners Hospice & Palliative Care in Bloomington, Minnesota.
Dr. Holden's NPI, 1730405812, was assigned on April 14, 2010. Dr. Holden holds Minnesota license 74858.
Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; Dmand AI Affiliation Data; and Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS)
Dr. Holden's primary practice is Health Partners Hospice & Palliative Care, at 8170 33rd Avenue South, Bloomington, MN 55425 in Hennepin County. The practice phone is (952) 883-6877.
Source: Dmand AI Affiliation Data
Dr. Holden's primary practice is Health Partners Hospice & Palliative Care in Bloomington, Minnesota. Dr. Holden is also affiliated with Regions Hospital. The medical group on file is HealthPartners. Dr. Holden's employer is on file too: a hospice.
Sources: Dmand AI Affiliation Data; and Dmand AI Org Hierarchy Data
Dmand AI tracks the electronic health record (EHR) system at each site where Dr. Holden practices, 2 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.
| Site | EHR vendor and product |
|---|---|
| Health Partners Hospice & Palliative Care | Available with a free account |
| +1 more affiliated site | Available with a free account |
Source: Dmand AI Technology Install Data
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Surgery is Dr. Holden's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 208600000X. Dmand AI has Dr. Holden's licenses on file in 2 states: Minnesota and Missouri.
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Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; and Dmand AI Peer Benchmarks
CMS data shows 40 Medicare services from Dr. Holden across 3 procedure codes in 2024, all of them office visits, for 42 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $4,303 for them. Every service was in an office.
Medians across 549 general surgeons in Minnesota with Dmand AI profiles that report each measure.
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
CMS counts 42 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Holden in 2024. The largest group is 65 to 74, with 18 patients. 64% of them have high blood pressure, and 48% have high cholesterol. 33% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 1.52, where 1.00 is the Medicare average, so they are sicker than most Medicare patients.
Across all payers, Dmand AI patient panel data puts Dr. Holden's median patient age at 64, with 58% women.
CMS leaves out age groups with fewer than 11 patients.
Share of Medicare patients with each condition. A patient can have several.
Dmand AI patient panel data covers Medicare, Medicaid and commercial patients.
Median age 64
Sources: Dmand AI Patient Panel Data; and Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS), 2024 data
In 2024, Dr. Holden wrote 48 Medicare Part D claims for 35 patients. 98% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 26 of them, across 1 drug with 11 or more claims each, at $31 in total drug cost. In 2016, CMS named 56 claims across 2 drugs.
CMS names a drug when it has 11 or more claims. Share is of the claims for drugs CMS names.
Share of all Part D claims for each drug class CMS reports on. Classes with no claims are left out.
Drugs named by CMS: 1 in 2024, 2 in 2016.
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. Holden accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment. CMS lists Dr. Holden as offering telehealth. CMS counts 16 procedures of hernia repair (minimally invasive) by Dr. Holden, more than 83% of the clinicians it reports for that procedure.
CMS ranks each clinician against every clinician it reports for the same procedure category.
Hernia repair - groin (open): 1 to 10 procedures (CMS shows small counts as a range)
Removal of tissue: 1 to 10 procedures (CMS shows small counts as a range)
Sources: Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS); and Doctors and Clinicians Utilization Data (CMS)
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Dmand AI links 18 papers to Dr. Holden, published from 2020 to 2024. 2021 was the busiest year, with 8. The most frequent topics are Herniorrhaphy, Hernia, Ventral and Postoperative Complications. Dr. Holden has published most often in Surg Endosc. Dr. Holden's most frequent co-authors are Bradley Seth Kushner, MD, Jeffrey Alan Blatnik, MD and Timothy Richard Holden, MD.
Topics Dr. Holden writes about most
Surg Endosc
J Am Coll Surg
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Sources: PubMed (National Library of Medicine); and Dmand AI Research Linkage
CMS Open Payments shows 29 general payments to Dr. Holden from 5 drug and device companies from 2017 to 2024. Travel and lodging make up the largest share, 34% of the total. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. paid the most, $4,780.
Share is of all general payments to this clinician.
Source: Open Payments (CMS), 2025 data, released July 7, 2026
| Data on this page | Source |
|---|---|
| NPI, name, sex, specialty and licenses | NPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Professional Profile Data |
| Practice locations and phone | Dmand AI Affiliation Data |
| Primary practice, affiliations and health system | Dmand AI Affiliation DataDmand AI Org Hierarchy Data |
| Medicare services and procedure codes | Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider and Service (CMS) (opens in a new tab) |
| State medians for the same specialty | Dmand AI Peer Benchmarks |
| Medicare patients and the all-payer patient panel | Dmand AI Patient Panel DataMedicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS) (opens in a new tab) |
| Part D prescribing | Medicare 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 percentiles | Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Doctors and Clinicians Utilization Data (CMS) (opens in a new tab) |
| Publications, topics and co-authors | PubMed (National Library of Medicine) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Research Linkage |
| Industry payments | Open Payments (CMS) (opens in a new tab) |
| EHR at each practice site | Dmand AI Technology Install Data |
| Similar physicians | Dmand AI Affiliation Data |
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Dr. Sara E. Holden's NPI number is 1730405812. It was assigned on April 14, 2010, and it is active in the NPI Registry.
Dr. Sara E. Holden is a general surgeon in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The primary specialty in the NPI Registry is Surgery Physician (taxonomy code 208600000X).
Dr. Holden practices at 8170 33rd Avenue South, Bloomington, MN 55425. Dr. Holden's primary practice is Health Partners Hospice & Palliative Care in Bloomington, Minnesota.
The practice phone on file for Dr. Holden is (952) 883-6877.
Dr. Holden holds Minnesota license 74858, one of the licenses on file in 2 states.
Dmand AI has state licenses on file for Dr. Holden in Minnesota and Missouri.
Dr. Holden is affiliated with Regions Hospital.
Dr. Holden is linked to HealthPartners.
Yes. CMS data shows Dr. Holden billed Medicare for 40 services in 2024, and Dr. Holden accepts Medicare assignment.
Yes. The CMS Doctors and Clinicians file lists Dr. Holden as offering telehealth services.
CMS counts 42 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Holden in 2024, with an average age of 67.
In 2024, Dr. Holden's most billed Medicare services were office visit, established patient (99214), office visit, new patient (99204) and office visit, established patient (99215).
In 2024 Medicare Part D data, Dr. Holden's most prescribed drugs by claims were Oxycodone HCl.
CMS Open Payments shows $6,810 in general payments to Dr. Holden from 5 companies from 2017 to 2024. The largest total came from Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
Dr. Holden graduated from medical school in 2010, 16 years ago.
Dmand AI links 18 publications to Dr. Holden, published from 2020 to 2024.
Dr. Holden's most frequent co-authors are Bradley Seth Kushner, MD (13 shared papers), Jeffrey Alan Blatnik, MD (11 shared papers) and Timothy Richard Holden, MD (9 shared papers).
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