Lawrence L Chao, MD

2 locations · Lawrence L Chao MD A Professional Corp · 2 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: California Pacific Medical Center- Van Ness Campus · Mills-Peninsula Medical Center. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

12 plans · 2 carriers

Licence A55511 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 1996 · expires 2027-12-31 · Guangzhou Medical College.

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

2 hospitals

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

• California Pacific Medical Center- Van Ness CampusSan Francisco, 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 4 of 5 · 78% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 3 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.224, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.325, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.373, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• Peninsula Medical CenterBurlingame, 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 4 of 5 · 78% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 5 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.139, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.242, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$94,441

Medicare paid this office $94,441 for 195 people.

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

Who their Medicare patients are

195 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 76 · Women 52% · Also on Medicaid 20% · Health risk score 1.01. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical internal medicine clinician is at 1.76.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 34% · Chronic kidney disease 19% · COPD 17% · Depression 14% · Coronary heart disease 13% · Heart failure 11% · Cancer 10% · Atrial fibrillation 9% · Dementia 6%.

The office billed $232,235, Medicare allowed $128,791 and paid $94,441; for 1,718 services of 29 kinds; $1,467 of it was for drugs given in the office and $92,974 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.

$4,431 in 2024

Medicaid paid $4,431 for 105 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 47 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.

$1,816,472

Pharmacies billed $1,816,472 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 11,742) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical internal medicine clinician is at 1%.

10,175 generic and 1,530 brand-name prescriptions · $1,816,472 in drug cost · 253 antibiotic prescriptions to 194 people · 31 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.