Kuang-Hwa Kenneth Chao, MD

2 locations · Bass Medical Group · 292 clinicians in this group

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

12 plans · 2 carriers

Licence A104893 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2008 · expires 2028-07-31 · University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio.

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

What this clinician told their state board, medical school and everything before it. Only some states publish this, so nothing here means the state does not say, not that there was no training or certification.

Specialty certification

• American Board of Radiology - Radiation Oncology

1 hospital

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

• Eden Medical CenterCastro Valley, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Other · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Sutter Health, which runs 27 hospitals in 2 statesPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 75% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.122, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$2,096,285

Medicare paid this office $2,096,285 for 420 people.

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

Procedures year by year

Times billed to Original Medicare each year. A blank year means fewer than 11 people had it, or none: Medicare does not publish smaller counts. Medicare Advantage patients are not included.

Who their Medicare patients are

420 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 76 · Women 28% · Also on Medicaid 16% · Health risk score 1.53. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical radiation oncology clinician is at 1.69.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Cancer 68% · Diabetes 26% · Coronary heart disease 26% · Chronic kidney disease 25% · Atrial fibrillation 22% · Depression 19% · Heart failure 16% · Dementia 15% · COPD 14% · Stroke 9%.

The office billed $7,144,266, Medicare allowed $2,639,141 and paid $2,096,285; for 6,049 services of 68 kinds; $418 of it was for drugs given in the office and $2,095,867 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.

$8,479 in 2020

Medicaid paid $8,479 for 99 billed services this clinician did in 2020, up to 15 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.

$30,032

Pharmacies billed $30,032 in 2024.

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

163 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $30,032 in drug cost · 41 antibiotic prescriptions to 33 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.

$3,270 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.

NPI

1073721569

Licence

CA A104893, MI 4301080566California A104893: Current · expires 2028-07-31

Trained

University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas, 2002 · 24 years ago

Group

Bass Medical Group

Video visits

Lists video visits

Gender

Male