Kaling Cheung, MD

3 locations · Bass Medical Group · 292 clinicians in this group

Hospitals listed: John Muir Medical Center - Concord Campus · John Muir Medical Center - Walnut Creek Campus. That is not proof they admit you there this week.

12 plans · 2 carriers

Licence C51289 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2003 · expires 2027-02-28 · Erasmus University of Rotterdam Faculty of Medicine.

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

What this clinician told their state board, medical school and everything before it. Only some states publish this, so nothing here means the state does not say, not that there was no training or certification.

Specialty certification

• American Board of Internal Medicine - Critical Care Medicine
• American Board of Internal Medicine - Pulmonary Disease
• American Board of Internal Medicine - Sleep Medicine

2 hospitals

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

• John Muir Medical Center - Concord CampusConcord, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Private · Has an emergency departmentPart of John Muir Health, which runs 3 hospitalsPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 77% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 4 of 5 starsBetter than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.235, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.675, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
• John Muir Medical Center - Walnut Creek CampusWalnut Creek, CAAcute Care Hospital · Voluntary non-profit - Other · Has an emergency department · Birthing-friendlyPart of John Muir Health, which runs 3 hospitalsPatients rate it 3 of 5 · 77% would definitely recommend it
  Overall rating: 2 of 5 starsWorse than the national rate — Abdominopelvic accidental puncture or laceration rate: 2.01 (1.17 to 2.85) · 2,206 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Death rate among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complications: 222.42 (177.82 to 267.02) · 120 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — Pressure ulcer rate: 1.4 (0.91 to 1.9) · 9,764 cases, Jul 2022 – Jun 2024Worse than the national rate — SSI - Colon Surgery: 2.734, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (ICU + select Wards): 0.536, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (ICU + select Wards): 0.341, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — Clostridium Difficile (C.Diff): 0.455, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Better than the national rate — MRSA Bacteremia: 0.245, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

$221,199

Medicare paid this office $221,199 for 576 people.

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

Who their Medicare patients are

576 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 75 · Under 65 3% · 85 and older 12% · Women 51% · Also on Medicaid 5% · Health risk score 1.24. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical pulmonary disease clinician is at 2.13.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 72% · Chronic kidney disease 26% · Coronary heart disease 25% · Diabetes 24% · COPD 24% · Atrial fibrillation 23% · Depression 21% · Cancer 19% · Heart failure 15% · Stroke 8% · Dementia 4%.

The office billed $851,887, Medicare allowed $288,960 and paid $221,199; for 1,865 services of 22 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.

$3,104 in 2024

Medicaid paid $3,104 for 15 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 15 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.

$570,130

Pharmacies billed $570,130 in 2024.

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

Opioids were 0% of their Part D prescriptions (0 of 847) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical pulmonary disease clinician is at 0%.

371 generic and 476 brand-name prescriptions · $570,130 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.

Year by year

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

$3,061 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.

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
• Improved the patient portal
• Lets patients read their visit notes
• Reports cases to public health electronically
• Shows lab and imaging costs when ordering tests
• Uses standard treatment protocols
• Exempt from immunization registry reporting