Clara Werner Dougherty, PA-C
Medical Physician Assistant · La Jolla, CA
Clara Werner Dougherty, PA-C is a medical physician assistant with a practice address in La Jolla, California, and NPI 1609987619, issued on Aug 31, 2006. Check the license (California PA17439, as entered in NPPES) with the California board that licenses this profession; the Medicare figures below come from public CMS files.
- Name
- Clara Werner Dougherty
- Credential
- PA-C
- Primary taxonomy
- Medical Physician Assistant 363AM0700X
- License number
- PA17439 CA
Self-reported in NPPES; status is on the state search - Practice location
- 9850 Genesee Ave, La Jolla, CA 92037
- Phone
- (858) 453-5944
- Enumerated
- Aug 31, 2006
- Record last updated
- Nov 17, 2023
- Fax
- (858) 429-7925
- Medicare enrollment
- Enrolled (PECOS I20041019000565); accepts Medicare assignment
- Medical or professional school
- R Franklin University Of Med & Sci/Chicago Medical School, 2002
- Telehealth
- Offers telehealth (CMS)
- Entity
- Type 1 · individual
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Verify Clara Werner Dougherty in five checks
- 1IdentityNPI record in CMS NPPESNPI lookupConfirmed in NPPES
- 2LicenseActive license and public ordersWhich California board licenses this profession
Search for license PA17439Check the board - 3Other statesLicenses and actions elsewhereDocInfo (FSMB)Not checked
- 4ExclusionsMedicare and Medicaid bansHHS-OIG exclusion listNot checked
- 5CertificationBoard certificationABMS AOA NCCPA AANPNot checked
63% fewer Medicare Part D claims than the average medical physician assistant in 2024
427 Medicare Part D claims for 154 beneficiaries, against an average of 1,148 among the 23,801 providers of this specialty who prescribed in Part D.
Most prescribed
- Tamsulosin Hcl85 claims
- Gemtesa49 claims
- Nitrofurantoin Mono-Macro36 claims
- Cefuroxime35 claims
- Estradiol33 claims
- Nitrofurantoin20 claims
Source: CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers by Provider and Drug, 2024 (data.cms.gov). Part D covers prescriptions for Medicare patients only; drugs with fewer than 11 claims are not published.
The MIPS final score for 2023 (Medicare payment program): 90.6 of 100
The Merit-based Incentive Payment System score is reported for this clinician. Four categories are weighted into the final score; the average among 454,083 clinicians with a measured score was 83.5.
Source: CMS Quality Payment Program, MIPS performance year 2023; category weights for 2023 (qpp.cms.gov).
Industry payments in 2024: $485.00
19 payments; by number, the most common kind was food and beverage; the largest payer was Abbvie Inc. The 16,165 providers of this specialty with any payment received $1,055.00 on average. Payments are reported by manufacturers, not by the provider, and are not a sign of wrongdoing.
Source: CMS Open Payments, program year 2024 (openpaymentsdata.cms.gov); average among providers of this specialty with at least one payment.
Bills Medicare through one group practice
- Scripps HealthOceanside, CA
Source: CMS Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (the group practices a clinician bills Medicare through) (data.cms.gov).
Clara Werner Dougherty among 3,376 medical physician assistant records in California
Clara Werner Dougherty, PA-C is one of 3,376 medical physician assistant records with a practice address in California. 69% of them appear in a Medicare file (Part D prescribing, MIPS, Open Payments or Medicare group billing); this one does. Its NPI, issued in 2006, is newer than 2% of them.
- NPI issued2006 · 2% of these records are older, 80% newer
- In a Medicare fileYes · 69% of these records are
- In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians fileYes · 40% of these records are
- Graduated2002 · median 2012 among the 1,347 with a school on file
- Record last updated2023 · 54% of these records were not updated in five years or more
Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026, every record with primary taxonomy 363AM0700X and a California practice address; Medicare files: CMS Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024, Doctors and Clinicians (data.cms.gov).
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Common questions
What is Clara Werner Dougherty, PA-C's NPI number?
Clara Werner Dougherty, PA-C's National Provider Identifier (NPI) is 1609987619, issued on Aug 31, 2006. An NPI identifies a provider in billing; it is not a license.
Where is Clara Werner Dougherty, PA-C located?
The NPPES record lists a practice address at 9850 Genesee Ave, La Jolla, CA, 92037. Phone: (858) 453-5944. Providers update this record themselves, so call before visiting.
How can I verify Clara Werner Dougherty, PA-C's license?
NPPES lists California license number PA17439, as entered by the provider. Search the California board that licenses this profession; the NPPES record confirms identity only.
How much does Clara Werner Dougherty, PA-C prescribe under Medicare Part D?
In 2024, Clara Werner Dougherty, PA-C had 427 Medicare Part D claims for 154 beneficiaries; the average among medical physician assistant prescribers was 1,148. Part D covers Medicare prescriptions only.
What is Clara Werner Dougherty, PA-C's MIPS final score?
The 2023 MIPS final score is 90.6 of 100. The average among 454,083 clinicians with a measured score was 83.5.
Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov); NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy. Medicare files from data.cms.gov. An NPI identifies who bills; it is not a license.
Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of Aug 9, 2026.