Charlene S Lee, MD

1 location

Hospitals listed: Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

32 plans · 9 carriers

Licence A128450 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2014 · expires 2027-06-30 · St. George'S University School of Medicine.

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

1 hospital

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

$196,964

Medicare paid this office $196,964 for 310 people.

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

Who their Medicare patients are

310 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 77 · Under 65 5% · 85 and older 20% · Women 60% · Also on Medicaid 65% · Health risk score 1.86. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical hematology-oncology clinician is at 2.04.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 49% · Cancer 44% · Chronic kidney disease 39% · Coronary heart disease 27% · Heart failure 16% · COPD 16% · Atrial fibrillation 14% · Dementia 10% · Depression 9% · Stroke 5%.

The office billed $444,693, Medicare allowed $257,272 and paid $196,964; for 55,832 services of 49 kinds; $20,826 of it was for drugs given in the office and $176,138 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.

$96 in 2023

Medicaid paid $96 for 75 billed services this clinician did in 2023, up to 21 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.

$7,128,028

Pharmacies billed $7,128,028 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 4% of their Part D prescriptions (74 of 1,962) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical hematology-oncology clinician is at 5%.

1,437 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $7,128,028 in drug cost · 35 antibiotic prescriptions to 24 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.

$3,714 in 2025

Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.

A payment is not proof that care is biased.

5 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.

• Provide 24/7 Access to MIPS Eligible Clinicians or Groups Who Have Real-Time Access to Patient's Medical Record

NPI

1831488337

Licence

CA A128450California A128450: Current · expires 2027-06-30

Gender

Female