Paul S Chard, MD

2 locations · East Bay Center for Digestive Health Medical Associates Inc · Alameda Health System

Hospitals listed: Alta Bates Summit Medical Center · Alta Bates Summit Medical Center - Alta Bates Camp · Highland Hospital. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

12 plans · 2 carriers

Licence A71845 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2000 · expires 2027-12-31 · Stanford University School of Medicine.

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

Surgery centers they own

• The Oakland CA Endosurgery ASC, LP dba East Bay EndosurgeryAmbulatory Surgery Center · Oakland, CA6.1% owner since 2006 · accredited by AAAHC
  Accreditation Renewed5 inspections, 2 with deficiencies · last 2025-12-15: Requirements Met

What this clinician told their state board, medical school and everything before it. Only some states publish this, so nothing here means the state does not say, not that there was no training or certification.

Specialty certification

• American Board of Internal Medicine - Gastroenterology
• American Board of Internal Medicine - Internal Medicine

3 hospitals

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

• Alta Bates Summit Medical CenterOakland, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency departmentPart of Sutter Health, which runs 27 hospitals in 2 statesPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 78% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 5 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Death rate among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complications: 130.09 (87.72 to 172.46) · 109 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.274, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.227, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• 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
• Highland HospitalOakland, CAAcute Care Hospital · Government - Hospital District or Authority · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of Alameda Health System, which runs 4 hospitalsPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 70% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 1 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better 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): 0.568, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$145,690

Medicare paid this office $145,690 for 582 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

582 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 73 · Under 65 6% · 85 and older 5% · Women 49% · Also on Medicaid 43% · Health risk score 1.09. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical gastroenterology clinician is at 1.42.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 66% · Diabetes 27% · Chronic kidney disease 23% · Coronary heart disease 17% · Depression 17% · Cancer 16% · Atrial fibrillation 14% · COPD 10% · Heart failure 9% · Stroke 7% · Dementia 3%.

The office billed $760,361, Medicare allowed $182,334 and paid $145,690; for 959 services of 36 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.

$14,263 in 2024

Medicaid paid $14,263 for 1,040 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 40 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.

$125,493

Pharmacies billed $125,493 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 1,035) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical gastroenterology clinician is at 0%.

900 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $125,493 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.

Year by year

Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.

$869 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

1427006006

Licence

CA A71845California A71845: Current · expires 2027-12-31

Trained

Stanford University School of Medicine, 1998 · 28 years ago

Group

East Bay Center for Digestive Health Medical Associates Inc · Alameda Health System

Gender

Male