Paresh K Patel, OD
Optometry · Gilroy
- Medicare standing
- Clear
- Enrolled, allowed to bill and order, not excluded
- Plans that list them
- Not verified
- Not the same as out of network.
- Office
- 1
Offices
1 location · Visual Edge Optomertic Group · 3 clinicians in this group
Plan participation
Not verified
We could not verify current plan participation for this doctor. This does not mean they are out of network. Call Dr. Patel’s office at (408) 842-2020 to ask if they take your plan before you enroll.
California Medical Board record
Licence C9807 · Deceased
Licence status: Deceased · since 1947 · University of Michigan Medical School.
Licensee is deceased.
Matched on the licence number without its letter prefix; check the name before relying on it.
No disciplinary actions, convictions, malpractice judgments or citations in this record.
Original Medicare doctor bills
$8,524
Medicare paid this office $8,524 for 63 people.
This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.
| Established patient complete exam of visual system | 40 | $3,613 | $90 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 28 | $2,613 | $73 |
| Imaging of retina | 14 | $533 | $36 |
Procedures Medicare counted
| Cataract surgery | 1-10 | None |
Who their Medicare patients are
63 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 74 · Women 60% · Also on Medicaid 0% · Health risk score 0.94. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical optometry clinician is at 0.97.
Conditions among them: High blood pressure 65% · Diabetes 37% · Coronary heart disease 25%.
The office billed $18,683, Medicare allowed $12,267 and paid $8,524; for 119 services of 10 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
| 2024 | 63 | 119 | 74 | 0.94 | $18,683 | $8,524 |
| 2023 | 58 | 112 | 74 | 0.87 | $19,257 | $8,488 |
| 2022 | 52 | 102 | 75 | 0.91 | $14,884 | $7,574 |
| 2021 | 54 | 101 | 74 | 0.87 | $11,174 | $7,539 |
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.
See the services billed each year
2023: 3 services
| Established patient complete exam of visual system | 43 | $4,157 | $97 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 19 | $1,817 | $70 |
| Imaging of retina | 12 | $492 | $38 |
2022: 3 services
| Established patient complete exam of visual system | 34 | $3,316 | $98 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 20 | $2,253 | $78 |
| Imaging of optic nerve | 12 | $412 | $29 |
2021: 3 services
| Established patient complete exam of visual system | 35 | $3,633 | $104 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 24 | $2,091 | $75 |
| Imaging of retina | 17 | $687 | $33 |
Money from drug and device companies
$146 in 2024
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | None | $146 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | None | $150 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | None | $20 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | None | $15 |
Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.
A payment is not proof that care is biased.
| CooperVision | Myday Contact Lens | $146 | 1 payment
|
See the published payment
| CooperVision | Meals · 2024-04-30 | Myday Contact Lens | $146 |
See earlier years (2022, 2020, 2019)
2022: $150
| Sight Sciences | Tearcare Smartlid | $150 | 1 payment
|
2020: $20
| Novartis Pharmaceuticals | Xiidra | $20 | 1 payment
|
2019: $15
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care | Acuvue | $15 | 1 payment
|
Professional record
- NPI
- 1285773804
- Licence
- CA 9807California C9807: Deceased
- Trained
- Ohio State University - College of Optometry, 1991
- Gender
- Male
More record details
- Sole proprietor
- No
- Taxonomy
- Federal specialty code 152W00000X (152W00000X)
- Mailing address
- 8050 Santa Teresa Blvd, Suite 110, Gilroy, CA, 95020
- NPI first listed
- 2007-02-06
- NPI last updated
- 2007-07-08
This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.