Shawn K Kaku, MD

3 locations · Stanford Health Care · Permanente Medical Group Inc

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

Licence A109964 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2009 · expires 2027-08-31 · University of California, Irvine College of Medicine.

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

2 hospitals

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
• Stanford Health CareStanford, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency departmentPart of Stanford Health Care, which runs 3 hospitalsHome of Stanford Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute designated comprehensive cancer centrePatients rate it 4 of 5 · 83% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 5 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Perioperative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis rate: 5.31 (4.24 to 6.37) · 8,661 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Rate of inpatient admissions for patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy: 14.1 (12.7 to 15.7) · 2,191 cases, Jan 2024 – Dec 2024Better than the national rate — Postoperative respiratory failure rate: 4.08 (1.95 to 6.21) · 5,296 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.317, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.446, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — SSI - Colon Surgery: 0.241, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Ratio of unplanned hospital visits after hospital outpatient surgery: 0.7 (0.6 to 0.9) · 3,348 cases, Jan 2024 – Dec 2024

$82,048

Medicare paid this office $82,048 for 172 people.

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

Who their Medicare patients are

172 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 74 · Under 65 17% · 85 and older 20% · Women 45% · Also on Medicaid 61% · Health risk score 2.77. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical critical care (intensivists) clinician is at 2.58.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 50% · Stroke 50% · Heart failure 48% · Chronic kidney disease 47% · Coronary heart disease 44% · Atrial fibrillation 40% · COPD 35% · Depression 34% · Dementia 32% · Cancer 15%.

The office billed $311,571, Medicare allowed $103,804 and paid $82,048; for 548 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

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.

$16,907 in 2024

Medicaid paid $16,907 for 229 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 17 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.

$300 in 2020

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

A payment is not proof that care is biased.

Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.

NPI

1093977696

Licence

CA A109964California A109964: Current · expires 2027-08-31

Trained

University of California, Irvine, California College of Medicine, 2008

Group

Stanford Health Care · Permanente Medical Group Inc

Gender

Male