Joseph Carl Barbara, MD

1 location

Hospitals listed: 059180 · 059765 · 059796 · Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital · Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

28 plans · 8 carriers

Licence G28075 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 1974 · expires 2028-08-31 · Medical College of Wisconsin.

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

17 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
• High Priority Practices Guide of the Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (SAFER) Guides
• Implementation of medication management practice improvements
• Improved the patient portal
• Lets patients read their visit notes
• ONC-ACB Surveillance Attestation
• Reports cases to public health electronically
• Reports immunizations to the state registry
• Reports to a public-health or clinical registry
• Tobacco use
• Uses standard treatment protocols

2 hospitals

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

• 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

$120,098

Medicare paid this office $120,098 for 503 people.

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

Who their Medicare patients are

503 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 71 · Under 65 18% · 85 and older 11% · Women 50% · Also on Medicaid 52% · Health risk score 1.16. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical family practice clinician is at 1.13.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 62% · Diabetes 30% · Coronary heart disease 18% · Atrial fibrillation 15% · Depression 14% · Chronic kidney disease 12% · Heart failure 11% · COPD 9% · Cancer 8% · Dementia 8% · Stroke 8%.

The office billed $239,522, Medicare allowed $159,433 and paid $120,098; for 1,736 services of 20 kinds; $2,702 of it was for drugs given in the office and $117,396 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.

$5,229 in 2024

Medicaid paid $5,229 for 3,827 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 164 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.

$866,848

Pharmacies billed $866,848 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 1% of their Part D prescriptions (109 of 7,847) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical family practice clinician is at 2%.

6,714 generic and 1,068 brand-name prescriptions · $866,848 in drug cost · 268 antibiotic prescriptions to 179 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.