Renee Michelle Garcia, MD
Psychosomatic Medicine · Palo Alto
- Medicare standing
- Clear
- Enrolled, allowed to bill and order, not excluded
- Plans that list them
- 4
- 1 carrier
- Office
- 1
Offices
1 location
Plans that list them
4 plans · 1 carrier
A missing listing does not mean out of network. Directories change, and a listing does not cover every office. Call Dr. Garcia’s office at (650) 723-4000 to confirm they take your plan. Ask about the office you use, its medical group, referrals and appointments.
| SCAN Balance (HMO C-SNP) | SCAN Health Plan | Listed | Oct 3, 2026 |
| SCAN Classic (HMO) | SCAN Health Plan | Listed | Oct 3, 2026 |
| SCAN MyChoice (HMO) | SCAN Health Plan | Listed | Oct 3, 2026 |
| SCAN Strive (HMO C-SNP) | SCAN Health Plan | Listed | Oct 3, 2026 |
California Medical Board record
Licence A121059 · Current
Licensed to practise in California · since 2012 · expires 2027-10-31 · Loma Linda University School of Medicine.
No disciplinary actions, convictions, malpractice judgments or citations in this record.
Original Medicare doctor bills
$3,645
Medicare paid this office $3,645 for 18 people.
This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 35 minutes | 12 | $1,914 | $68 |
Who their Medicare patients are
18 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 73 · Health risk score 2.98. Sicker patients than 9 in 10 peers; the typical psychiatry clinician is at 1.35.
Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 72% · Depression 67% · Dementia 67%.
The office billed $14,729, Medicare allowed $4,715 and paid $3,645; for 49 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 | 18 | 49 | 73 | 2.98 | $14,729 | $3,645 |
| 2023 | 92 | 197 | 78 | 2.30 | $63,977 | $23,372 |
| 2022 | 104 | 274 | 76 | 2.28 | $84,937 | $32,685 |
| 2021 | 96 | 267 | 74 | 2.38 | $80,160 | $31,998 |
| 2020 | 120 | 340 | 72 | 2.02 | $99,235 | $40,359 |
| 2019 | 128 | 331 | 71 | 2.60 | $85,416 | $31,795 |
| 2018 | 98 | 213 | 74 | 2.55 | $61,555 | $22,421 |
| 2017 | 167 | 511 | 65 | 2.79 | $148,042 | $42,594 |
| 2016 | 313 | 1,084 | 65 | 2.66 | $314,197 | $91,576 |
| 2015 | 139 | 348 | 64 | 2.56 | $89,396 | $25,488 |
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
| Initial hospital care with moderate level of medical decision making at least 75 minutes | 64 | $10,244 | $148 |
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 50 minutes | 41 | $9,175 | $102 |
| Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation with medical services | 13 | $1,890 | $145 |
2022: 3 services
| Initial hospital care with moderate level of medical decision making at least 75 minutes | 84 | $15,499 | $170 |
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 50 minutes | 61 | $13,140 | $88 |
| Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation with medical services | 19 | $2,833 | $149 |
2021: 2 services
| Initial hospital care with moderate level of medical decision making at least 75 minutes | 84 | $15,315 | $174 |
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 50 minutes | 59 | $14,092 | $90 |
2020: 4 services
| Initial hospital care with moderate level of medical decision making at least 75 minutes | 97 | $18,469 | $178 |
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 50 minutes | 61 | $16,598 | $92 |
| Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation with medical services | 19 | $2,435 | $122 |
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 35 minutes | 13 | $1,459 | $63 |
2019: 4 services
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 35 minutes | 60 | $10,719 | $63 |
| Initial hospital care with moderate level of medical decision making at least 75 minutes | 50 | $9,743 | $174 |
| Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation with medical services | 48 | $6,166 | $121 |
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 50 minutes | 22 | $3,774 | $92 |
2018: 4 services
| Initial hospital care with moderate level of medical decision making at least 75 minutes | 53 | $9,514 | $170 |
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 50 minutes | 23 | $4,878 | $90 |
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 35 minutes | 30 | $4,136 | $63 |
| Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation with medical services | 22 | $2,621 | $119 |
2017: 5 services
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 50 minutes | 45 | $11,778 | $93 |
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 35 minutes | 72 | $11,466 | $64 |
| Initial hospital care with straightforward or low-level medical decision making at least 55 minutes | 56 | $6,956 | $122 |
| Return visit (30+ min) | 16 | $1,905 | $71 |
| Return visit (30+ min) | 13 | $1,411 | $71 |
2016: 13 services
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 50 minutes | 83 | $23,888 | $93 |
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 35 minutes | 142 | $21,729 | $64 |
| Initial hospital care with straightforward or low-level medical decision making at least 55 minutes | 86 | $10,813 | $121 |
| Return visit (30+ min) | 33 | $4,871 | $66 |
| Long return visit (40+ min) | 25 | $4,444 | $99 |
| Initial hospital care with moderate level of medical decision making at least 75 minutes | 22 | $3,966 | $180 |
| Long return visit (40+ min) | 24 | $3,964 | $99 |
| New patient visit (60+ min) | 25 | $3,743 | $150 |
| Return visit (30+ min) | 20 | $2,311 | $68 |
| Initial hospital care with straightforward or low level of medical decision making, per day at least 40 minutes | 14 | $1,249 | $89 |
| New patient visit (45+ min) | 12 | $1,185 | $99 |
| Psychotherapy with evaluation and management visit, 30 minutes | 12 | $737 | $57 |
| Subsequent hospital care with straightforward or low level of medical decision making, per day at least 25 minutes | 11 | $453 | $35 |
2015: 5 services
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 35 minutes | 71 | $12,203 | $65 |
| Initial hospital care with straightforward or low-level medical decision making at least 55 minutes | 25 | $3,058 | $122 |
| Initial hospital care with straightforward or low level of medical decision making, per day at least 40 minutes | 31 | $2,877 | $90 |
| Return visit (30+ min) | 17 | $1,336 | $70 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 12 | $730 | $46 |
Money from drug and device companies
$125 in 2023
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | None | $125 |
| 2021 | 2 | 2 | None | $107 |
| 2020 | 1 | 2 | None | $145 |
| 2019 | 2 | 4 | None | $358 |
Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.
A payment is not proof that care is biased.
| BioXcel Therapeutics | Igalmi | $125 | 1 payment
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See the published payment
| BioXcel Therapeutics | Meals · 2023-07-12 | Igalmi | $125 |
See earlier years (2021, 2020, 2019)
2021: $107
| AbbVie | Vraylar | $92 | 1 payment
|
| Sanofi Pasteur | Menquadfi | $15 | 1 payment
|
2020: $145
| Janssen Pharmaceuticals | Spravato | $145 | 2 payments
|
2019: $358
| Janssen Pharmaceuticals | Spravato | $257 | 3 payments
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| E.R. Squibb & Sons L.L.C. | None | $101 | 1 payment
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Professional record
- NPI
- 1699033738
- Licence
- CA A121059California A121059: Current · expires 2027-10-31
More record details
- Sole proprietor
- No
- Taxonomy
- Federal specialty code 2084P0015X (2084P0015X); Psychiatry (2084P0800X)
- Mailing address
- 300 Pasteur Dr, Palo Alto, CA, 94304
- NPI first listed
- 2012-04-26
- NPI last updated
- 2024-04-28
- NPI record certified
- 2024-04-28
This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.