James Yao, OD
Optometry · Los Gatos
- Medicare standing
- Clear
- Enrolled, allowed to bill and order, not excluded
- Plans that list them
- 6
- 2 carriers
- Office
- 1
Offices
1 location · Total Vision PC · 115 clinicians in this group
Plans that list them
6 plans · 2 carriers
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6 of 6 plans
| Central Health Classic Care Plan III (HMO) | Central Health Medicare Plan | Listed | Aug 15, 2026 |
| Central Health Dual Access Plan (HMO D-SNP) | Central Health Medicare Plan | Listed | Aug 15, 2026 |
| Central Health Embrace Care Plan (HMO C-SNP) | Central Health Medicare Plan | Listed, may be out of date | Sep 15, 2025 |
| Central Health Embrace Choice Plan (HMO C-SNP) | Central Health Medicare Plan | Listed | Aug 15, 2026 |
| Central Health Valor Care Plan (HMO) | Central Health Medicare Plan | Listed | Aug 15, 2026 |
| AARP Medicare Advantage from UHC CA-10 (HMO-POS) | UnitedHealthcare | Listed, may be out of date | Jun 10, 2026 |
Original Medicare doctor bills
$5,220
Medicare paid this office $5,220 for 31 people.
This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 27 | $2,611 | $82 |
| Photography of the retina | 20 | $674 | $34 |
Procedures Medicare counted
| Cataract surgery | 1-10 | None |
Who their Medicare patients are
31 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 75 · Women 55% · Also on Medicaid 0% · Health risk score 0.69. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical optometry clinician is at 0.97.
Conditions among them: High blood pressure 68%.
The office billed $9,039, Medicare allowed $6,905 and paid $5,220; for 84 services of 8 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 | 31 | 84 | 75 | 0.69 | $9,039 | $5,220 |
| 2023 | 35 | 87 | 74 | 0.63 | $9,472 | $4,417 |
| 2022 | 18 | 29 | 76 | 0.92 | $3,349 | $2,075 |
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: 2 services
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 24 | $2,109 | $66 |
| Photography of the retina | 17 | $449 | $26 |
Drugs they prescribed that Part D paid
$140
Pharmacies billed $140 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 15) in 2024. Too few prescriptions to compare fairly with other clinicians.
15 generic and 0 brand-name prescriptions · $140 in drug cost.
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.
| Latanoprost | 15 | $140 | $9 |
Year by year
| 2024 | 15 | None | 0% (0) | 0% | $140 |
| 2023 | 17 | None | 0% (0) | None | $507 |
Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.
Money from drug and device companies
$425 in 2025
| 2025 | 3 | 5 | None | $425 |
| 2024 | 4 | 7 | None | $244 |
| 2023 | 3 | 5 | None | $127 |
| 2022 | 3 | 3 | None | $60 |
| 2021 | 2 | 2 | None | $80 |
| 2020 | 2 | 2 | $250 | $367 |
| 2019 | 2 | 4 | None | $306 |
Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.
A payment is not proof that care is biased.
| Alcon Vision | Precision7 | $215 | 3 payments
|
| Visioneering Technologies | None | $168 | 1 payment
|
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care | None | $41 | 1 payment
|
See all 5 published payments
| Alcon Vision | Meals · 2025-11-25 | Precision7 | $145 |
| Visioneering Technologies | Meals · 2025-11-11 | None | $168 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care | Meals · 2025-10-29 | None | $41 |
| Alcon Vision | Meals · 2025-07-30 | Precision7 | $43 |
| Alcon Vision | Meals · 2025-02-17 | Precision7 | $28 |
See earlier years (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019)
2024: $244
| CooperVision | Myday Contact Lens | $101 | 1 payment
|
| Alcon Vision | Dailies Total1 | $72 | 3 payments
|
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care | None | $49 | 2 payments
|
| Oyster Point Pharma | Tyrvaya | $21 | 1 payment
|
2023: $127
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care | Acuvue | $63 | 2 payments
|
| Alcon Vision | Total30 | $46 | 2 payments
|
| CooperVision | Myday Contact Lens | $18 | 1 payment
|
2022: $60
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care | Acuvue | $25 | 1 payment
|
| CooperVision | Multiple Brands Contact Lens | $20 | 1 payment
|
| Alcon Vision | Total30 | $16 | 1 payment
|
2021: $80
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care | Acuvue | $62 | 1 payment
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| Alcon Vision | Precision 1 | $18 | 1 payment
|
2020: $367
| Visioneering Technologies | None | $250 | 1 payment
|
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care | Acuvue | $117 | 1 payment
|
2019: $306
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care | Acuvue | $277 | 3 payments
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| Alcon Vision | Dailies | $29 | 1 payment
|
Professional record
- NPI
- 1306125760
- Licence
- CA 14250TG
- Trained
- University of California - School of Optometry, 2011
- Group
- Total Vision PC
- Gender
- Male
More record details
- Sole proprietor
- No
- Taxonomy
- Federal specialty code 152W00000X (152W00000X)
- Mailing address
- 995 Hilmar St, Santa Clara, CA, 95050
- NPI first listed
- 2011-08-16
- NPI last updated
- 2011-08-16
This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.