Lamont J Cardon, MD

1 location

Hospitals listed: Alta Bates Summit Medical Center - Alta Bates Camp · John Muir Medical Center - Walnut Creek Campus. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

9 plans · 1 carrier

Licence G85488 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 1999 · expires 2027-06-30 · Rosalind Franklin University, the Chicago Medical School.

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

Surgery centers they own

• The Surgery Center of Alta Bates Summit Medical CenterAmbulatory Surgery Center · Oakland, CAOwner · accredited by JC
  Initial Accreditation4 inspections, 4 with deficiencies · last 2017-07-27: Requirements Met

2 hospitals

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

• Alta Bates Summit Medical Center - Alta Bates CampBerkeley, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Sutter Health, which runs 27 hospitals in 2 statesPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 67% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.298, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• John Muir Medical Center - Walnut Creek CampusWalnut Creek, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Other · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of John Muir Health, which runs 3 hospitalsPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 77% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 2 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Abdominopelvic accidental puncture or laceration rate: 2.01 (1.17 to 2.85) · 2,206 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Death rate among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complications: 222.42 (177.82 to 267.02) · 120 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Pressure ulcer rate: 1.4 (0.91 to 1.9) · 9,764 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — SSI - Colon Surgery: 2.734, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.536, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.341, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.455, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — MRSA Bacteremia: 0.245, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$389,784

Medicare paid this office $389,784 for 727 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

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

727 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 75 · Under 65 3% · 85 and older 9% · Women 61% · Also on Medicaid 7% · Health risk score 0.88. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical orthopedic surgery clinician is at 1.13.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 59% · Diabetes 20% · Coronary heart disease 17% · Depression 17% · Cancer 16% · Chronic kidney disease 14% · Atrial fibrillation 12% · Heart failure 7% · COPD 7% · Stroke 5% · Dementia 2%.

The office billed $899,529, Medicare allowed $503,233 and paid $389,784; for 3,580 services of 108 kinds; $3,135 of it was for drugs given in the office and $386,649 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.

$1,411

Pharmacies billed $1,411 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 50% of their Part D prescriptions (100 of 199) in 2024. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical orthopedic surgery clinician is at 31%. Surgeons prescribe little besides pain medicine after an operation, so their opioid share runs high.

199 generic and 0 brand-name prescriptions · $1,411 in drug cost · 69 antibiotic prescriptions to 29 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.

$146 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.

Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.

NPI

1245263789

Licence

CA G85488California G85488: Current · expires 2027-06-30

Trained

R Franklin University of Med & Sci/Chicago Medical School, 1993 · 33 years ago

Video visits

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Gender

Male