Lawrence Chen, DPM

1 location · Bruce I Lerman Dpm Inc · 5 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: 057002 · 059175 · Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula · Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

11 plans · 4 carriers

2 hospitals

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

• Community Hospital of the Monterey PeninsulaMonterey, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Montage HealthPatients rate it 4 of 5 · 84% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — CMS Medicare PSI 90: Patient safety and adverse events composite: 1.48 (1.22 to 1.74), Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Postoperative acute kidney injury requiring dialysis rate: 3.12 (1.69 to 4.56) · 1,095 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Postoperative respiratory failure rate: 19.24 (14.17 to 24.3) · 1,118 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Postoperative sepsis rate: 9.62 (6.42 to 12.82) · 1,086 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.39, 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

$249,084

Medicare paid this office $249,084 for 368 people.

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

Procedures Medicare counted

Who their Medicare patients are

368 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 77 · Under 65 7% · 85 and older 21% · Women 51% · Also on Medicaid 20% · Health risk score 2.10. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical podiatry clinician is at 1.55.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 49% · Coronary heart disease 38% · Chronic kidney disease 35% · Heart failure 27% · Atrial fibrillation 25% · Depression 19% · COPD 17% · Cancer 15% · Dementia 12% · Stroke 11%.

The office billed $509,039, Medicare allowed $312,904 and paid $249,084; for 2,016 services of 59 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.

$6,908 in 2024

Medicaid paid $6,908 for 1,038 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 30 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.

$14,154

Pharmacies billed $14,154 in 2024.

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

127 generic and 12 brand-name prescriptions · $14,154 in drug cost · 28 antibiotic prescriptions to 20 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.

$2,398 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

1265927115

Licence

CA E5849

Trained

California School of Podiatric Medicine, 2019

Group

Bruce I Lerman Dpm Inc

Gender

Male