Thomas J Elardo, DPM

1 location · Bay Area Foot Care Inc · 127 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: Good Samaritan Hospital. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

30 plans · 9 carriers

Surgery centers they own

• Silicon Valley Surgery Center, LPAmbulatory Surgery Center · Campbell, CA2.24% owner since 1999 · accredited by AAAHC
  Accreditation Renewed4 inspections, 1 with deficiencies · last 2024-09-16
• Silicon Valley Surgery Center, LP - BascomAmbulatory Surgery Center · Campbell, CA2.24% owner since 1999 · accredited by AAAHC
  Accreditation RenewedNo inspections published

1 hospital

These rate the hospital, not this clinician. Most measures at most hospitals are no different from the national rate.

• Good Samaritan HospitalSan Jose, CAAcute Care Hospital · Proprietary · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of HCA Healthcare, which runs 185 hospitals in 19 statesPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 67% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 2 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.337, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$325,659

Medicare paid this office $325,659 for 554 people.

This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.

Procedures Medicare counted

Who their Medicare patients are

554 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 77 · Women 64% · Also on Medicaid 3% · Health risk score 1.05. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical podiatry clinician is at 1.55.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 25% · Coronary heart disease 25% · Atrial fibrillation 20% · Cancer 19% · Chronic kidney disease 16% · Depression 16% · Heart failure 12% · Stroke 8% · COPD 7% · Dementia 5%.

The office billed $1,476,808, Medicare allowed $435,784 and paid $325,659; for 6,860 services of 93 kinds; $3,092 of it was for drugs given in the office and $322,567 for care.

Original Medicare patients only. A risk score of 1.0 is the average Medicare patient; higher means sicker. Any count under 11 is hidden.

Year by year

Original Medicare only. A service billed for fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden, so the lines can add up to less than the year's total.

$0 in 2019

Medicaid paid $0 for 20 billed services this clinician did in 2019, up to 14 people in a month for one service.

Medicaid and CHIP claims where this clinician did the service, fee-for-service and managed care together. Any month with fewer than 11 patients is hidden, so small Medicaid practices undercount.

$11,213

Pharmacies billed $11,213 in 2024.

This is pharmacy cost, not the office bill, and not what patients paid.

Opioids were 16% of their Part D prescriptions (49 of 317) in 2024. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical podiatry clinician is at 5%.

312 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $11,213 in drug cost · 36 antibiotic prescriptions to 26 people.

Part D prescriptions only. The opioid rate is opioid prescriptions as a share of all this clinician's Part D prescriptions; surgeons and pain specialists run higher than others, so it is shown against the same specialty.

Year by year

Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.

$1,600 in 2025

Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.

A payment is not proof that care is biased.

1 measures · 2023

Medicare asked this office to report how often certain checkups happened in 2023. This is not a grade for the doctor. A specialist’s patients may not need every screening.

What the office says it does

Boxes the office ticked on its Medicare worksheet for 2023. Nobody checks these.

• Agreed to federal review of their records system
• Did a security review of patient data
• Exchanges records both ways with other health systems
• Implementation of fall screening and assessment programs
• Implementation of medication management practice improvements
• Improved the patient portal
• Lets patients read their visit notes
• ONC-ACB Surveillance Attestation
• Reports cases to public health electronically
• Reports to a public-health or clinical registry
• Uses standard treatment protocols
• Exempt from e-prescribing
• Exempt from immunization registry reporting
• Exempt from query of the prescription drug monitoring program (pdmp)

NPI

1023112554

Licence

CA E4147

Trained

California School of Podiatric Medicine, 1996

Group

Bay Area Foot Care Inc

Gender

Male