James E Starr, MD

3 locations · Berkeley Emergency Medical Group Inc · Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

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

Licence A88029 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2004 · expires 2028-07-31 · University of Wisconsin Medical School.

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.

• 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

$113,326

Medicare paid this office $113,326 for 725 people.

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

Who their Medicare patients are

725 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 73 · Under 65 18% · 85 and older 19% · Women 56% · Also on Medicaid 58% · Health risk score 2.24. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical emergency medicine clinician is at 2.01.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Chronic kidney disease 39% · Diabetes 38% · Depression 33% · Heart failure 29% · Coronary heart disease 26% · Atrial fibrillation 26% · COPD 24% · Dementia 19% · Cancer 16% · Stroke 16%.

The office billed $754,033, Medicare allowed $150,537 and paid $113,326; for 1,454 services of 29 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.

$59,812 in 2024

Medicaid paid $59,812 for 1,546 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 67 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.

$7,599

Pharmacies billed $7,599 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 18% of their Part D prescriptions (77 of 421) in 2024. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical emergency medicine clinician is at 12%.

379 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $7,599 in drug cost · 90 antibiotic prescriptions to 84 people.

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.

Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.

NPI

1740328624

Licence

CA A88029California A88029: Current · expires 2028-07-31

Trained

University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, 1998

Group

Berkeley Emergency Medical Group Inc · Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Gender

Male