Cynthia Wong, MD
Nephrology · Palo Alto
- Medicare standing
- Clear
- Enrolled, allowed to bill and order, not excluded
- Plans that list them
- Not verified
- Not the same as out of network.
- Office
- 1
Offices
1 location · Lpch Medical Group Div of Lucile · 332 clinicians in this group
Hospitals listed: Lucile Salter Packard Children'S Hsp at Stanford. That is not proof they admit you there this week.
Plan participation
Not verified
We could not verify current plan participation for this doctor. This does not mean they are out of network. Call Dr. Wong’s office at (650) 498-7200 to ask if they take your plan before you enroll.
California Medical Board record
Licence A91426 · Current
Licensed to practise in California · since 2005 · expires 2027-05-31 · University of Washington School of Medicine.
No disciplinary actions, convictions, malpractice judgments or citations in this record.
Hospitals they work in
1 hospital
These rate the hospital, not this clinician. Most measures at most hospitals are no different from the national rate.
- Lucile Salter Packard Children'S Hsp at StanfordPalo Alto, CAChildren · Voluntary non-profit - Private · No emergency departmentPart of Stanford Health Care, which runs 3 hospitalsNo overall ratingNo measure marked better or worse than the national rate
Original Medicare doctor bills
$15,688
Medicare paid this office $15,688 for 12 people.
This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.
Who their Medicare patients are
12 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 14 · Under 65 100% · 85 and older 0% · Health risk score 7.71. Sicker patients than 9 in 10 peers; the typical nephrology clinician is at 4.01.
Conditions among them: Chronic kidney disease 75%.
The office billed $60,344, Medicare allowed $19,691 and paid $15,688; for 88 services of 13 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 | 12 | 88 | 14 | 7.71 | $60,344 | $15,688 |
| 2022 | 11 | 39 | 14 | 6.59 | $38,428 | $10,448 |
| 2021 | 14 | 80 | 11 | 7.32 | $59,246 | $16,357 |
| 2019 | 13 | 32 | 13 | 4.02 | $31,570 | $8,289 |
| 2018 | 17 | 47 | 13 | 4.69 | $27,647 | $7,175 |
| 2017 | 22 | 87 | 12 | 6.88 | $57,319 | $15,347 |
| 2016 | 22 | 99 | 13 | 7.09 | $54,910 | $16,615 |
| 2015 | 18 | 95 | 14 | 6.82 | $86,406 | $24,910 |
| 2014 | 17 | 77 | 13 | 4.77 | $60,817 | $17,977 |
| 2013 | 20 | 136 | 12 | 3.90 | $60,340 | $15,068 |
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
2017: 1 service
| Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making at least 50 minutes | 13 | $4,211 | $86 |
2013: 1 service
| Long return visit (40+ min) | 11 | $880 | $68 |
Medicaid work
$11,269 in 2024
Medicaid paid $11,269 for 79 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 18 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.
| Long return visit (40+ min) | 48 | $8,983 |
| SBSQ HOSPITAL IP/OBS CARE HIGH MDM 50 MINUTES | 31 | $2,286 |
| 2024 | 79 | 2 | 18 | $11,269 |
| 2023 | 142 | 2 | 23 | $18,251 |
| 2022 | 203 | 2 | 20 | $21,284 |
| 2021 | 245 | 2 | 24 | $24,811 |
| 2020 | 49 | 1 | 17 | $6,589 |
| 2019 | 267 | 2 | 21 | $24,410 |
| 2018 | 69 | 1 | 20 | $8,166 |
See the largest Medicaid services in earlier years
2023
| Long return visit (40+ min) | 91 | $13,884 |
| SBSQ HOSPITAL IP/OBS CARE HIGH MDM 50 MINUTES | 51 | $4,368 |
2022
| Long return visit (40+ min) | 83 | $12,147 |
| SBSQ HOSPITAL IP/OBS CARE HIGH MDM 50 MINUTES | 120 | $9,138 |
2021
| Long return visit (40+ min) | 98 | $13,896 |
| SBSQ HOSPITAL IP/OBS CARE HIGH MDM 50 MINUTES | 147 | $10,914 |
2020
| Long return visit (40+ min) | 49 | $6,589 |
2019
| Long return visit (40+ min) | 110 | $13,948 |
| SBSQ HOSPITAL IP/OBS CARE HIGH MDM 50 MINUTES | 157 | $10,462 |
2018
| Long return visit (40+ min) | 69 | $8,166 |
Money from drug and device companies
$108 in 2025
| 2025 | 1 | 3 | None | $108 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | None | $123 |
| 2023 | 1 | 2 | None | $83 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | None | $122 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | None | $122 |
Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.
A payment is not proof that care is biased.
| Abbott Laboratories | None | $108 | 3 payments
|
See all 3 published payments
| Abbott Laboratories | Meals · 2025-09-11 | None | $34 |
| Abbott Laboratories | Meals · 2025-07-23 | None | $39 |
| Abbott Laboratories | Meals · 2025-04-08 | None | $35 |
See earlier years (2024, 2023, 2022, 2019)
2024: $123
| Nuwellis | Aquadex Smartflow Console | $123 | 1 payment
|
2023: $83
| Penumbra | Ruby Coil | $83 | 2 payments
|
2022: $122
| Alexion Pharmaceuticals | Ultomiris | $122 | 1 payment
|
2019: $122
| Alexion Pharmaceuticals | None | $122 | 1 payment
|
Research money
Money a company paid to run a study. Where it went to their institution, the clinician is named as an investigator and did not receive it; the amount covers the whole study, often across many sites.
| AKEBIA THERAPEUTICS INC · A 36-Week, Single-Arm, Open-Label Study To Evaluate the Safety and Tolerability of Ferric Citrate in Children With Hyperphosphatemia Related To Chronic Kidney Disease · 2023 | Their institution | $39,584 |
| AKEBIA THERAPEUTICS INC · A 36-Week, Single-Arm, Open-Label Study To Evaluate the Safety and Tolerability of Ferric Citrate in Children With Hyperphosphatemia Related To Chronic Kidney Disease · 2024 | Their institution | $24,309 |
| AKEBIA THERAPEUTICS INC · A 36-Week, Single-Arm, Open-Label Study To Evaluate the Safety and Tolerability of Ferric Citrate in Children With Hyperphosphatemia Related To Chronic Kidney Disease · 2025 | Their institution | $8,380 |
| RELYPSA, INC. · Emerald · 2020 | Their institution | $2,220 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. · Emerald · 2022 | Their institution | $1,280 |
Professional record
- NPI
- 1841214376
- Licence
- CA A91426California A91426: Current · expires 2027-05-31
- Trained
- University of Washington School of Medicine, 1999
- Gender
- Female
More record details
- Sole proprietor
- No
- Taxonomy
- Federal specialty code 2080P0210X (2080P0210X)
- Mailing address
- 300 Pasteur Drive, G306, Stanford, CA, 94305
- NPI first listed
- 2006-07-27
- NPI last updated
- 2007-07-08
This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.