James D Palmer, MD

4 locations · Northern California Retina Vitreous Associates Medical Group, Inc. · 7 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: Mills-Peninsula Medical Center. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

33 plans · 9 carriers

Licence G26383 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 1974 · expires 2027-01-31 · Tulane University School of Medicine.

No disciplinary actions, convictions, malpractice judgments or citations in this record.

1 hospital

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

• Peninsula Medical CenterBurlingame, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Sutter Health, which runs 27 hospitals in 2 statesPatients rate it 4 of 5 · 78% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 5 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.139, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.242, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$3,234,949

Medicare paid this office $3,234,949 for 1,013 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

Who their Medicare patients are

1,013 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 78 · Under 65 4% · 85 and older 25% · Women 56% · Also on Medicaid 31% · Health risk score 1.44. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical ophthalmology clinician is at 1.16.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 40% · Chronic kidney disease 28% · Coronary heart disease 23% · Heart failure 16% · Atrial fibrillation 16% · Cancer 14% · Depression 11% · COPD 10% · Dementia 7% · Stroke 7%.

The office billed $9,616,471, Medicare allowed $4,123,832 and paid $3,234,949; for 59,119 services of 51 kinds; $2,661,895 of it was for drugs given in the office and $573,054 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.

$281,134 in 2024

Medicaid paid $281,134 for 2,697 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 102 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.

$50,254

Pharmacies billed $50,254 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 0% of their Part D prescriptions (0 of 552) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical ophthalmology clinician is at 0%.

425 generic and 127 brand-name prescriptions · $50,254 in drug cost.

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.

$271 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.

Research money

Money a company paid to run a study. Where it went to their institution, the clinician is named as an investigator and did not receive it; the amount covers the whole study, often across many sites.

Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.

NPI

1053306381

Licence

CA G26383California G26383: Current · expires 2027-01-31

Trained

Stanford University School of Medicine, 1992

Group

Northern California Retina Vitreous Associates Medical Group, Inc.

Gender

Male