Theodore Chow, MD

1 location · T Chow Cardiology and Electrophysiology Medical Office · 2 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: Good Samaritan Hospital · Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

35 plans · 10 carriers

Licence C53436 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2008 · expires 2028-01-31 · Johns Hopkins University School 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.

• 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
• Santa Clara Valley Medical CenterSan Jose, CAAcute Care Hospital · Government - Local · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System, which runs 3 hospitalsPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 70% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 2 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — SSI - Colon Surgery: 2.572, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.563, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.256, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — MRSA Bacteremia: 0.369, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$1,303,533

Medicare paid this office $1,303,533 for 590 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

Who their Medicare patients are

590 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 78 · Under 65 4% · 85 and older 24% · Women 49% · Also on Medicaid 39% · Health risk score 1.67. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinician is at 1.8.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Coronary heart disease 70% · Atrial fibrillation 57% · Diabetes 47% · Heart failure 42% · Chronic kidney disease 34% · Depression 19% · Cancer 18% · COPD 18% · Stroke 18% · Dementia 14%.

The office billed $3,319,685, Medicare allowed $1,621,014 and paid $1,303,533; for 8,671 services of 77 kinds; $5,092 of it was for drugs given in the office and $1,298,441 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.

$4,261 in 2024

Medicaid paid $4,261 for 631 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 54 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.

$1,218,931

Pharmacies billed $1,218,931 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 5,286) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinician is at 0%.

3,782 generic and 1,504 brand-name prescriptions · $1,218,931 in drug cost · 129 antibiotic prescriptions to 119 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.