Vivek Charu, MD

2 locations · Stanford Health Care · 3,152 clinicians in this group

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

Licence A162607 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2019 · expires 2027-05-31 · Johns Hopkins 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.

• 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

$15,123

Medicare paid this office $15,123 for 55 people.

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

Who their Medicare patients are

55 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 65 · Under 65 31% · Women 44% · Also on Medicaid 49% · Health risk score 3.75. Sicker patients than 9 in 10 peers; the typical pathology clinician is at 1.55.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Chronic kidney disease 75% · Diabetes 51% · Heart failure 35% · Coronary heart disease 29% · Atrial fibrillation 25% · COPD 22% · Cancer 20%.

The office billed $198,334, Medicare allowed $18,993 and paid $15,123; for 524 services of 16 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.

$529 in 2024

Medicaid paid $529 for 21 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 14 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.

$45 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

1164964466

Licence

CA A162607California A162607: Current · expires 2027-05-31

Trained

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2017

Group

Stanford Health Care

Gender

Male