Kristen B Brooks, MD
Psychiatry · Milpitas
- 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 · Permanente Medical Group Inc · 10,928 clinicians in this group
Hospitals listed: Kaiser Foundation Hospital. That is not proof they admit you there this week.
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. Brooks’s office at (408) 945-2900 to ask if they take your plan before you enroll.
California Medical Board record
Licence A92601 · Current
Licensed to practise in California · since 2005 · expires 2027-04-30 · University of California San Francisco School of Medicine.
No disciplinary actions, convictions, malpractice judgments or citations in this record.
Hospitals they work in
1 hospital
These rate the hospital, not this clinician. Most measures at most hospitals are no different from the national rate.
- Kaiser Foundation HospitalSan Rafael, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency departmentPart of Kaiser Permanente, which runs 41 hospitals in 3 statesPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 72% would definitely recommend itOverall rating: 4 of 5 starsNo measure marked better or worse than the national rate
See every measure and the patient survey for Kaiser Foundation Hospital
Behind the star rating — Deaths: 0 better, 1 the same, 0 worse of 1 measures. Safety: 0 better, 4 the same, 1 worse of 5 measures. Readmissions: 0 better, 1 the same, 0 worse of 1 measures. The star rating is worked out from an earlier period than the measures below, so the two can disagree.
| Abdominopelvic accidental puncture or laceration rateComplications and deaths | 1.05 (0 to 2.13) · 75 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| CMS Medicare PSI 90: Patient safety and adverse events compositeComplications and deaths | 0.96 (0.47 to 1.46) | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Death rate for stroke patientsComplications and deaths | 11 · 165 cases | None | Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 |
| Hybrid Hospital-Wide All-Cause Risk Standardized Mortality RateComplications and deaths | 3.4 · 1,899 cases | None | Jul 2024 – Jun 2025 |
| Iatrogenic pneumothorax rateComplications and deaths | 0.21 (0 to 0.44) · 333 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| In-hospital fall-associated fracture rateComplications and deaths | 0.27 (0.05 to 0.49) · 331 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Perioperative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis rateComplications and deaths | 3.44 (0.82 to 6.06) · 48 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Postoperative hemorrhage or hematoma rateComplications and deaths | 2.31 (0.58 to 4.03) · 50 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Pressure ulcer rateComplications and deaths | 0.54 (0 to 1.79) · 254 cases | No different | Jul 2022 – Jun 2024 |
| Rate of complications for hip/knee replacement patientsComplications and deaths | 5.4 · 31 cases | None | Apr 2023 – Mar 2025 |
| Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards)Infections | 0.856 | No different | Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 |
| Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards)Infections | 0 | No different | Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 |
| Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff)Infections | 0.664 | No different | Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 |
| SSI - Colon SurgeryInfections | 0.826 | No different | Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 |
| Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) 30-Day Readmission RateUnplanned return visits | 15.5 · 135 cases | None | Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 |
| Heart failure (HF) 30-Day Readmission RateUnplanned return visits | 19.8 · 320 cases | None | Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 |
| Pneumonia (PN) 30-Day Readmission RateUnplanned return visits | 17.3 · 404 cases | None | Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 |
| Rate of readmission for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patientsUnplanned return visits | 19.1 · 66 cases | None | Jul 2023 – Jun 2025 |
What patients said (1,084 patients answered, 33% of those asked)
| Cleanliness | 4 |
| Nurse communication | 3 |
| Doctor communication | 4 |
| Communication about medicines | 3 |
| Discharge information | 4 |
| Overall hospital rating | 3 |
| Quietness | 1 |
| Recommend hospital | 4 |
| Room was "always" clean | 71% |
| Nurses "always" communicated well | 76% |
| Doctors "always" communicated well | 82% |
| Staff "always" explained | 61% |
| Yes, staff "did" give patients this information | 88% |
| Yes, staff "did" give patients information about help after discharge | 91% |
| Doctors "always" explained things so they could understand | 76% |
| Doctors "always" listened carefully | 82% |
| Doctors "always" treated them with courtesy and respect | 88% |
| Patients who gave a rating of "9" or "10" (high) | 66% |
| Staff "always" explained new medications | 75% |
| Nurses "always" explained things so they could understand | 72% |
| Nurses "always" listened carefully | 71% |
| Nurses "always" treated them with courtesy and respect | 85% |
| "Always" quiet at night | 33% |
| "YES", patients would definitely recommend the hospital | 72% |
| Staff "always" explained possible side effects | 48% |
| Yes, staff "did" give patients information about possible symptoms | 86% |
Original Medicare doctor bills
$5,720
Medicare paid this office $5,720 for 16 people.
This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.
Who their Medicare patients are
16 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 69 · Health risk score 2.47. Sicker patients than 9 in 10 peers; the typical psychiatry clinician is at 1.35.
Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Dementia 69%.
The office billed $15,489, Medicare allowed $7,179 and paid $5,720; for 72 services of 5 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 | 16 | 72 | 69 | 2.47 | $15,489 | $5,720 |
| 2022 | 13 | 65 | 68 | 1.33 | $14,808 | $7,394 |
| 2021 | 11 | 30 | 73 | 1.74 | $4,735 | $2,044 |
| 2020 | 14 | 33 | 71 | 1.52 | $5,703 | $2,237 |
| 2017 | 15 | 38 | 68 | 1.79 | $6,754 | $1,916 |
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.
Money from drug and device companies
$20 in 2020
A payment is not proof that care is biased.
| SPR Therapeutics | Sprint Pns System | $20 | 1 payment
|
See the published payment
| SPR Therapeutics | Meals · 2020-12-31 | Sprint Pns System | $20 |
Professional record
- NPI
- 1376671784
- Licence
- CA A92601California A92601: Current · expires 2027-04-30
- Trained
- University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, 2004
- Gender
- Female
More record details
- Sole proprietor
- No
- Taxonomy
- Psychiatry (2084P0800X)
- Mailing address
- 401 Parnassus Ave, Box 0984, San Francisco, CA, 94143
- NPI first listed
- 2007-02-28
- NPI last updated
- 2021-12-15
This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.
This office lists an electronic records connection.