Smitha Kumar, MD

3 locations · Bass Medical Group · 292 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: 751672 · Good Samaritan Hospital · Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital · Santa Clara Valley Medical Center · Stanford Health Care. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

35 plans · 10 carriers

Licence A88107 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2004 · expires 2028-05-31 · Taskent Medical Institute.

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

19 measures · 2023

Medicare asked this office to report how often certain checkups happened in 2023. This is not a grade for the doctor. A specialist’s patients may not need every screening.

What the office says it does

Boxes the office ticked on its Medicare worksheet for 2023. Nobody checks these.

• Agreed to federal review of their records system
• Checks the state prescription-drug database before prescribing
• Did a security review of patient data
• Exchanges records both ways with other health systems
• Improved the patient portal
• Lets patients read their visit notes
• Reports cases to public health electronically
• Reports immunizations to the state registry
• Shows lab and imaging costs when ordering tests
• Uses standard treatment protocols

4 hospitals

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

• Good Samaritan HospitalSan Jose, CAAcute Care Hospital · Proprietary · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of HCA Healthcare, which runs 185 hospitals in 19 statesPatients rate it 2 of 5 · 67% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 2 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.337, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Hazel Hawkins Memorial HospitalHollister, CACritical Access Hospital · Government - Hospital District or Authority · Has an emergency department
  No overall ratingNo measure marked better or worse than the national rate
• 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
• Stanford Health CareStanford, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency departmentPart of Stanford Health Care, which runs 3 hospitalsHome of Stanford Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute designated comprehensive cancer centrePatients rate it 4 of 5 · 83% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 5 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Perioperative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis rate: 5.31 (4.24 to 6.37) · 8,661 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Rate of inpatient admissions for patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy: 14.1 (12.7 to 15.7) · 2,191 cases, Jan 2024 – Dec 2024Better than the national rate — Postoperative respiratory failure rate: 4.08 (1.95 to 6.21) · 5,296 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.317, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.446, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — SSI - Colon Surgery: 0.241, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Ratio of unplanned hospital visits after hospital outpatient surgery: 0.7 (0.6 to 0.9) · 3,348 cases, Jan 2024 – Dec 2024

$241,439

Medicare paid this office $241,439 for 494 people.

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

Who their Medicare patients are

494 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 76 · Under 65 2% · 85 and older 14% · Women 69% · Also on Medicaid 3% · Health risk score 1.09. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical family practice clinician is at 1.13.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 25% · Coronary heart disease 24% · Chronic kidney disease 17% · Atrial fibrillation 17% · Depression 17% · Heart failure 16% · Cancer 16% · COPD 10% · Stroke 7% · Dementia 6%.

The office billed $865,685, Medicare allowed $302,925 and paid $241,439; for 2,749 services of 29 kinds; $5,172 of it was for drugs given in the office and $236,267 for care.

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.

$1,027,844

Pharmacies billed $1,027,844 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 0% of their Part D prescriptions (24 of 7,828) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical family practice clinician is at 2%.

6,470 generic and 1,315 brand-name prescriptions · $1,027,844 in drug cost · 341 antibiotic prescriptions to 217 people · 35 antipsychotic prescriptions to people over 65.

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.