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Janice Kim, MD

Ophthalmology · San Jose

NPI 1841827961

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Clear
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Plans that list them
Not verified
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Office
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Offices

1 location · County of Santa Clara · 1,000 clinicians in this group

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Hospitals listed: Stanford Health Care. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

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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.

  • Stanford Health CareStanford, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency departmentPart of Stanford Health Care, which runs 3 hospitalsHome of Stanford Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute designated comprehensive cancer centrePatients rate it 4 of 5 · 83% would definitely recommend it
    Overall rating: 5 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Perioperative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis rate: 5.31 (4.24 to 6.37) · 8,661 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Rate of inpatient admissions for patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy: 14.1 (12.7 to 15.7) · 2,191 cases, Jan 2024 – Dec 2024Better than the national rate — Postoperative respiratory failure rate: 4.08 (1.95 to 6.21) · 5,296 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Better than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.317, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.446, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — SSI - Colon Surgery: 0.241, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Ratio of unplanned hospital visits after hospital outpatient surgery: 0.7 (0.6 to 0.9) · 3,348 cases, Jan 2024 – Dec 2024
See every measure and the patient survey for Stanford Health Care

Behind the star rating — Deaths: 5 better, 3 the same, 0 worse of 8 measures. Safety: 3 better, 5 the same, 0 worse of 8 measures. Readmissions: 2 better, 5 the same, 4 worse of 11 measures. The star rating is worked out from an earlier period than the measures below, so the two can disagree.

Every scored measure at Stanford Health Care
Perioperative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis rateComplications and deaths5.31 (4.24 to 6.37) · 8,661 casesWorseJul 2022 – Jun 2024
Rate of inpatient admissions for patients receiving outpatient chemotherapyUnplanned return visits14.1 (12.7 to 15.7) · 2,191 casesWorseJan 2024 – Dec 2024
Postoperative respiratory failure rateComplications and deaths4.08 (1.95 to 6.21) · 5,296 casesBetterJul 2022 – Jun 2024
Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards)Infections0.317BetterOct 2024 – Sep 2025
Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff)Infections0.446BetterOct 2024 – Sep 2025
SSI - Colon SurgeryInfections0.241BetterOct 2024 – Sep 2025
Ratio of unplanned hospital visits after hospital outpatient surgeryUnplanned return visits0.7 (0.6 to 0.9) · 3,348 casesBetterJan 2024 – Dec 2024
Abdominopelvic accidental puncture or laceration rateComplications and deaths1.06 (0.45 to 1.67) · 5,374 casesNo differentJul 2022 – Jun 2024
CMS Medicare PSI 90: Patient safety and adverse events compositeComplications and deaths0.86 (0.72 to 1)No differentJul 2022 – Jun 2024
Death rate among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complicationsComplications and deaths166.09 (137.88 to 194.3) · 470 casesNo differentJul 2022 – Jun 2024
Death rate for CABG surgery patientsComplications and deaths1.1 · 192 casesNoneJul 2022 – Jun 2025
Death rate for COPD patientsComplications and deaths6.4 · 146 casesNoneJul 2022 – Jun 2025
Death rate for heart attack patientsComplications and deaths9.7 · 253 casesNoneJul 2022 – Jun 2025
Death rate for heart failure patientsComplications and deaths6.3 · 880 casesNoneJul 2022 – Jun 2025
Death rate for pneumonia patientsComplications and deaths10.3 · 935 casesNoneJul 2022 – Jun 2025
Death rate for stroke patientsComplications and deaths8.7 · 501 casesNoneJul 2023 – Jun 2025
Hybrid Hospital-Wide All-Cause Risk Standardized Mortality RateComplications and deaths2.1 · 7,730 casesNoneJul 2024 – Jun 2025
Iatrogenic pneumothorax rateComplications and deaths0.13 (0 to 0.27) · 20,799 casesNo differentJul 2022 – Jun 2024
In-hospital fall-associated fracture rateComplications and deaths0.28 (0.14 to 0.43) · 23,182 casesNo differentJul 2022 – Jun 2024
Postoperative acute kidney injury requiring dialysis rateComplications and deaths0.94 (0.2 to 1.68) · 5,694 casesNo differentJul 2022 – Jun 2024
Postoperative hemorrhage or hematoma rateComplications and deaths2.36 (1.54 to 3.19) · 7,846 casesNo differentJul 2022 – Jun 2024
Postoperative sepsis rateComplications and deaths5.2 (3.76 to 6.64) · 5,603 casesNo differentJul 2022 – Jun 2024
Postoperative wound dehiscence rateComplications and deaths1.38 (0.23 to 2.53) · 2,211 casesNo differentJul 2022 – Jun 2024
Pressure ulcer rateComplications and deaths0.52 (0.21 to 0.83) · 19,915 casesNo differentJul 2022 – Jun 2024
Rate of complications for hip/knee replacement patientsComplications and deaths3.6 · 416 casesNoneApr 2023 – Mar 2025
Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards)Infections0.869No differentOct 2024 – Sep 2025
MRSA BacteremiaInfections0.857No differentOct 2024 – Sep 2025
SSI - Abdominal HysterectomyInfections0.368No differentOct 2024 – Sep 2025
Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) 30-Day Readmission RateUnplanned return visits16.2 · 247 casesNoneJul 2023 – Jun 2025
Heart failure (HF) 30-Day Readmission RateUnplanned return visits20.5 · 1,021 casesNoneJul 2023 – Jun 2025
Hospital return days for heart attack patientsUnplanned return visits47.8 · 258 casesNoneJul 2022 – Jun 2025
Hospital return days for heart failure patientsUnplanned return visits-1.6 · 990 casesNoneJul 2022 – Jun 2025
Hospital return days for pneumonia patientsUnplanned return visits20.8 · 976 casesNoneJul 2022 – Jun 2025
Pneumonia (PN) 30-Day Readmission RateUnplanned return visits16.5 · 959 casesNoneJul 2023 – Jun 2025
Rate of emergency department (ED) visits for patients receiving outpatient chemotherapyUnplanned return visits5.2 (4.4 to 6.2) · 2,191 casesNo differentJan 2024 – Dec 2024
Rate of readmission after hip/knee replacementUnplanned return visits5.1 · 425 casesNoneJul 2023 – Jun 2025
Rate of readmission for CABGUnplanned return visits9.6 · 158 casesNoneJul 2023 – Jun 2025
Rate of readmission for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patientsUnplanned return visits19.6 · 183 casesNoneJul 2023 – Jun 2025
Rate of unplanned hospital visits after colonoscopy (per 1,000 colonoscopies)Unplanned return visits12.7 (10.4 to 15.4) · 4,578 casesNo differentJan 2022 – Dec 2024

What patients said (6,810 patients answered, 25% of those asked)

Patient survey stars by topic at Stanford Health Care
Cleanliness4
Nurse communication4
Doctor communication4
Communication about medicines3
Discharge information4
Overall hospital rating4
Quietness2
Recommend hospital5
Share of patients giving the best answer at Stanford Health Care
Room was "always" clean75%
Nurses "always" communicated well82%
Doctors "always" communicated well81%
Staff "always" explained63%
Yes, staff "did" give patients this information89%
Yes, staff "did" give patients information about help after discharge89%
Doctors "always" explained things so they could understand76%
Doctors "always" listened carefully80%
Doctors "always" treated them with courtesy and respect87%
Patients who gave a rating of "9" or "10" (high)79%
Staff "always" explained new medications76%
Nurses "always" explained things so they could understand77%
Nurses "always" listened carefully79%
Nurses "always" treated them with courtesy and respect88%
"Always" quiet at night53%
"YES", patients would definitely recommend the hospital83%
Staff "always" explained possible side effects50%
Yes, staff "did" give patients information about possible symptoms90%

Original Medicare doctor bills

$6,260

Medicare paid this office $6,260 for 54 people.

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

Largest Original Medicare bills
Return visit (30+ min)43$3,773$88
Imaging of retina11$255$23

Procedures Medicare counted

Procedure volume Medicare published
Cataract surgery1-10None

Who their Medicare patients are

54 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 74 · Women 67% · Also on Medicaid 28% · Health risk score 1.29. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical ophthalmology clinician is at 1.16.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 70% · Coronary heart disease 37% · Diabetes 33% · Atrial fibrillation 20%.

The office billed $40,215, Medicare allowed $7,857 and paid $6,260; for 76 services of 15 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.

Drugs they prescribed that Part D paid

$560,517

Pharmacies billed $560,517 in 2024.

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

842 generic and 479 brand-name prescriptions · $560,517 in drug cost.

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.

Largest Part D drug costs
Combigan41$15,858$387
Restasis23$14,833$645
Prednisolone Acetate148$7,751$52
Brimonidine122$7,712$63
Rocklatan18$6,541$363
See all 21 drugs
Every Part D drug this clinician prescribed
Combigan41$15,858$387
Restasis23$14,833$645
Prednisolone Acetate148$7,751$52
Brimonidine122$7,712$63
Rocklatan18$6,541$363
Rhopressa17$5,709$336
Cyclosporine16$4,284$268
Bromsite13$3,284$253
Latanoprost295$3,066$10
Fluorometholone26$2,446$94
Dorzolamide-Timolol168$2,144$13
Brimonidine Tartrate-Timolol12$1,489$124
Moxifloxacin48$1,169$24
Dexamethasone Sodium Phosphate23$914$40
Valacyclovir18$859$48
Dorzolamide64$750$12
Timolol Maleate64$654$10
Ketorolac Tromethamine21$497$24
Erythromycin23$217$9
Neomycin-Polymyxin-Dexameth13$145$11
Azelastine14$111$8

Year by year

Part D prescribing by year
20241,321357None36%$560,517
20238982020% (0)37%$81,563
20228021820% (0)40%$96,563
2021217690% (0)44%$19,797
202025140% (0)None$1,556

Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.

See the drugs prescribed each year

2023: 15 drugs

Part D drugs prescribed in 2023
Restasis19$16,235$854
Brimonidine117$11,998$103
Combigan22$11,083$504
Rocklatan19$6,547$345
Alphagan P21$6,349$302
Rhopressa13$4,389$338
Latanoprost262$3,865$15
Prednisolone Acetate69$2,872$42
Dorzolamide-Timolol111$2,452$22
Dorzolamide48$1,005$21
Timolol Maleate57$800$14
Ketorolac Tromethamine28$692$25
Moxifloxacin15$521$35
Olopatadine11$222$20
Erythromycin19$182$10

2022: 13 drugs

Part D drugs prescribed in 2022
Brimonidine113$18,780$166
Restasis16$17,733$1,108
Lumigan14$10,186$728
Combigan19$7,346$387
Prednisolone Acetate77$6,079$79
Dorzolamide-Timolol146$5,566$38
Latanoprost195$5,046$26
Rhopressa13$4,748$365
Alphagan P11$4,114$374
Dorzolamide32$963$30
Ketorolac Tromethamine26$705$27
Timolol Maleate48$606$13
Azelastine15$139$9

2021: 4 drugs

Part D drugs prescribed in 2021
Brimonidine35$5,775$165
Dorzolamide-Timolol39$1,693$43
Latanoprost60$1,284$21
Prednisolone Acetate12$542$45

Money from drug and device companies

$23 in 2025

Industry payments by year
202511None$23
202411None$145

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

A payment is not proof that care is biased.

Payments by company
RxSightRxsight Contact Lens$23
1 payment
  • Meals for Rxsight Contact Lens · 2025-04-18 · $23
See the published payment
Every published payment
RxSightMeals · 2025-04-18Rxsight Contact Lens$23
See earlier years (2024)

2024: $145

Payments by company in 2024
Alcon VisionClareon$145
1 payment
  • Meals for Clareon · 2024-05-20 · $145

Professional record

NPI
1841827961
Trained
Harvard Medical School, 2020
Gender
Female
More record details
Sole proprietor
No
Taxonomy
Federal specialty code 207W00000X (207W00000X)
Mailing address
300 Pasteur Dr, Stanford, CA, 94305
NPI first listed
2020-03-26
NPI last updated
2024-10-25
NPI record certified
2024-10-25

This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.

Extra NPI addresses: 635 W 165th St, New York, NY, 10032 · 2452 Watson Ct, Palo Alto, CA, 94303