Kazuko L Shem, MD

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

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

25 plans · 6 carriers

Licence A54607 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 1995 · expires 2027-05-31 · University of California San Francisco School 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 Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - Pain Medicine
• American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - Spinal Cord Injury Medicine

2 hospitals

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
• 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

$47,556

Medicare paid this office $47,556 for 420 people.

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

Who their Medicare patients are

420 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 62 · Under 65 47% · 85 and older 3% · Women 42% · Also on Medicaid 64% · Health risk score 2.12. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical physical medicine and rehabilitation clinician is at 1.53.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 58% · Diabetes 34% · Depression 27% · Stroke 25% · Coronary heart disease 20% · Heart failure 16% · Chronic kidney disease 16% · Atrial fibrillation 16% · Dementia 10% · COPD 9% · Cancer 8%.

The office billed $459,022, Medicare allowed $66,788 and paid $47,556; for 783 services of 32 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.

$8,450 in 2024

Medicaid paid $8,450 for 2,046 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 66 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.

$62,038

Pharmacies billed $62,038 in 2024.

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

885 generic and 93 brand-name prescriptions · $62,038 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.

$20 in 2022

A payment is not proof that care is biased.

Medicare did not publish checkup rates for this clinician.

NPI

1932204641

Licence

CA A54607California A54607: Current · expires 2027-05-31

Trained

University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, 1994 · 32 years ago

Group

County of Santa Clara

Video visits

Lists video visits

Gender

Female