Kara Motonaga, MD
Pediatric Medicine · Palo Alto
- Medicare standing
- Clear
- Enrolled, allowed to bill and order, not excluded
- Plans that list them
- 1
- 1 carrier
- Office
- 1
Offices
1 location · Lpch Medical Group Div of Lucile · 332 clinicians in this group
Plans that list them
1 plan · 1 carrier
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| Anthem Full Dual Advantage Aligned (HMO D-SNP) | Anthem Blue Cross | Listed | Oct 3, 2026 |
California Medical Board record
Licence A95446 · Current
Licensed to practise in California · since 2006 · expires 2028-03-31 · Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.
No disciplinary actions, convictions, malpractice judgments or citations in this record.
Original Medicare doctor bills
$1,730
Medicare paid this office $1,730 for 22 people.
This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.
| Routine electrocardiogram (ecg) using at least 12 leads with interpretation and report only | 14 | $231 | $7 |
Who their Medicare patients are
22 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 43 · Health risk score 2.79. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical pediatric medicine clinician is at 1.4.
Conditions among them: Heart failure 55% · High blood pressure 50%.
The office billed $7,105, Medicare allowed $2,172 and paid $1,730; for 46 services of 13 kinds.
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
| 2024 | 22 | 46 | 43 | 2.79 | $7,105 | $1,730 |
| 2023 | 15 | 16 | 50 | 2.42 | $4,397 | $1,058 |
| 2022 | 11 | 27 | 47 | 1.71 | $6,320 | $1,501 |
| 2019 | 11 | 17 | 34 | 3.22 | $3,363 | $919 |
| 2018 | 13 | 50 | 29 | 3.49 | $7,388 | $2,044 |
| 2017 | 21 | 30 | 26 | 4.59 | $5,234 | $1,411 |
| 2016 | 15 | 27 | 39 | 2.71 | $4,481 | $1,235 |
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.
See the services billed each year
2017: 1 service
| Routine electrocardiogram (ecg) using at least 12 leads with interpretation and report only | 13 | $143 | $7 |
2016: 1 service
| Routine electrocardiogram (ecg) using at least 12 leads with interpretation and report only | 13 | $167 | $7 |
Medicaid work
$21,979 in 2024
Medicaid paid $21,979 for 1,059 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 121 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.
| Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only | 1,012 | $15,782 |
| Long return visit (40+ min) | 31 | $5,748 |
| External electrocardiographic recording for more than 7 days up to 15 days by continuous rhythm recording and storage; review and interpretation | 16 | $450 |
| 2024 | 1,059 | 3 | 121 | $21,979 |
| 2023 | 995 | 4 | 102 | $18,991 |
| 2022 | 930 | 3 | 88 | $13,765 |
| 2021 | 1,335 | 2 | 105 | $18,652 |
| 2020 | 1,314 | 3 | 102 | $23,014 |
| 2019 | 1,517 | 3 | 127 | $22,708 |
| 2018 | 1,270 | 2 | 112 | $19,087 |
See the largest Medicaid services in earlier years
2023
| Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only | 919 | $12,044 |
| Long return visit (40+ min) | 43 | $6,157 |
| CARDIOVASCULAR STRESS TEST | 21 | $455 |
| External electrocardiographic recording for more than 7 days up to 15 days by continuous rhythm recording and storage; review and interpretation | 12 | $335 |
2022
| Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only | 897 | $11,052 |
| Long return visit (40+ min) | 15 | $2,326 |
| CARDIOVASCULAR STRESS TEST | 18 | $387 |
2021
| Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only | 1,320 | $17,033 |
| Return visit (30+ min) | 15 | $1,618 |
2020
| Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only | 1,222 | $17,297 |
| Long return visit (40+ min) | 31 | $3,578 |
| XTRNL ECG REC<48 HR R&I | 61 | $2,139 |
2019
| Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only | 1,457 | $19,066 |
| Long return visit (40+ min) | 19 | $2,282 |
| XTRNL ECG REC<48 HR R&I | 41 | $1,360 |
2018
| Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only | 1,180 | $16,186 |
| XTRNL ECG REC<48 HR R&I | 90 | $2,901 |
Money from drug and device companies
$2,305 in 2025
| 2025 | 4 | 6 | $2,000 | $2,305 |
| 2024 | 5 | 14 | None | $705 |
| 2023 | 4 | 19 | $37 | $1,391 |
| 2022 | 3 | 9 | None | $310 |
| 2021 | 2 | 3 | $2,000 | $2,016 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | $100 | $100 |
| 2019 | 2 | 3 | $2,200 | $2,307 |
Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.
A payment is not proof that care is biased.
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) | None | $2,000 | 1 payment
|
| Biosense Webster | Carto 3 | $146 | 1 payment
|
| Abbott Laboratories | Ensite Precision | $115 | 3 payments
|
| Medtronic | Micra | $44 | 1 payment
|
See all 6 published payments
| Abbott Laboratories | Meals · 2025-12-31 | Ensite | $30 |
| Abbott Laboratories | Meals · 2025-12-02 | Ensite Precision | $61 |
| Abbott Laboratories | Meals · 2025-07-29 | Ensite | $24 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) | Consulting · 2025-07-22 | None | $2,000 |
| Biosense Webster | Meals · 2025-06-02 | Carto 3 | $146 |
| Medtronic | Meals · 2025-04-26 | Micra | $44 |
See earlier years (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019)
2024: $705
| Biosense Webster | Carto 3 | $302 | 6 payments
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| AltaThera Pharmaceuticals | Sotalol Hydrochloride | $182 | 1 payment
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| Medtronic | None | $132 | 2 payments
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| Abbott Laboratories | Ensite Precision | $68 | 3 payments
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| ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) | Lifevest | $21 | 1 payment
|
2023: $1,391
| Abbott Laboratories | Na | $891 | 8 payments
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| Medtronic | Selectsecure | $194 | 2 payments
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| Baxter Healthcare | Hillrom - Carnation Ambulatory Monitor | $164 | 7 payments
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| Biosense Webster | Carto 3 | $142 | 2 payments
|
2022: $310
| Biosense Webster | Carto 3 | $171 | 2 payments
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| Bardy Diagnostics | Carnation Ambulatory Monitor | $117 | 6 payments
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| Abbott Laboratories | Vantageview | $23 | 1 payment
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2021: $2,016
| Abbott Laboratories | Ensite Precision Cardiac Mapping System | $2,000 | 2 payments
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| Bardy Diagnostics | Carnation Ambulatory Monitor | $16 | 1 payment
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2020: $100
| United Therapeutics | None | $100 | 1 payment
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2019: $2,307
| Abbott Laboratories | Allure Quadra Rf Crt Pacemaker | $2,262 | 2 payments
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| Medtronic Vascular | Carelink | $45 | 1 payment
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Professional record
- NPI
- 1073709648
- Licence
- CA A95446, NM MD2012-0174California A95446: Current · expires 2028-03-31
- Trained
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, 2004
- Gender
- Female
More record details
- Sole proprietor
- No
- Taxonomy
- Federal specialty code 207RC0001X (207RC0001X); Federal specialty code 207RA0002X (207RA0002X); Pediatrics (208000000X); Federal specialty code 2080P0202X (2080P0202X)
- Mailing address
- 725 Welch Rd, Palo Alto, CA, 94304
- NPI first listed
- 2007-09-18
- NPI last updated
- 2024-04-26
- NPI record certified
- 2024-04-26
This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.