Natalie Lau, OD
Optometry · San Jose
- 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
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. Lau’s office to ask if they take your plan before you enroll.
State licence records
1 licence
- Illinois 046010840Licensed Optometrist · since 2014 · expires 2018-03-31InactiveNo board action on this licenceCheck it with the state
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Original Medicare doctor bills
$13,356
Medicare paid this office $13,356 for 77 people.
This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.
| Return visit (30+ min) | 66 | $6,584 | $98 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 18 | $1,449 | $72 |
| Photography of the retina | 41 | $1,432 | $31 |
| Exam of visual field with extended testing | 14 | $1,048 | $50 |
| Imaging of optic nerve | 24 | $949 | $28 |
See all 6 services
| Return visit (30+ min) | 66 | $6,584 | $98 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 18 | $1,449 | $72 |
| Photography of the retina | 41 | $1,432 | $31 |
| Exam of visual field with extended testing | 14 | $1,048 | $50 |
| Imaging of optic nerve | 24 | $949 | $28 |
| Imaging of retina | 25 | $900 | $33 |
Who their Medicare patients are
77 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 74 · Women 57% · Also on Medicaid 70% · Health risk score 1.14. Above the middle of the specialty; the typical optometry clinician is at 0.97.
Conditions among them: High blood pressure 75% · Diabetes 47% · Chronic kidney disease 21% · Heart failure 14% · COPD 14% · Atrial fibrillation 14% · Depression 14%.
The office billed $24,990, Medicare allowed $17,989 and paid $13,356; for 226 services of 10 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 | 77 | 226 | 74 | 1.14 | $24,990 | $13,356 |
| 2023 | 96 | 250 | 71 | 1.24 | $28,587 | $14,660 |
| 2022 | 84 | 207 | 72 | 0.97 | $22,303 | $12,588 |
| 2020 | 85 | 210 | 70 | 1.32 | $21,342 | $10,991 |
| 2019 | 99 | 185 | 71 | 1.17 | $19,556 | $11,928 |
| 2018 | 37 | 67 | 72 | 1.59 | $6,768 | $4,322 |
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
2023: 7 services
| Return visit (30+ min) | 57 | $5,477 | $96 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 27 | $2,107 | $66 |
| New patient visit (45+ min) | 20 | $2,009 | $100 |
| Photography of the retina | 40 | $1,337 | $30 |
| Exam of visual field with extended testing | 17 | $1,012 | $48 |
| Imaging of retina | 20 | $818 | $33 |
| Imaging of optic nerve | 25 | $804 | $25 |
2022: 7 services
| Return visit (30+ min) | 55 | $4,745 | $85 |
| New patient visit (45+ min) | 19 | $2,426 | $128 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 16 | $1,322 | $70 |
| Photography of the retina | 31 | $945 | $30 |
| Imaging of retina | 28 | $928 | $33 |
| Exam of visual field with extended testing | 14 | $856 | $54 |
| Imaging of optic nerve | 16 | $553 | $29 |
2020: 8 services
| Return visit (30+ min) | 42 | $3,039 | $72 |
| Established patient complete exam of visual system | 13 | $1,520 | $95 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 24 | $1,460 | $54 |
| Photography of the retina | 39 | $1,304 | $33 |
| New patient visit (45+ min) | 13 | $1,176 | $90 |
| Exam of visual field with extended testing | 18 | $976 | $49 |
| Imaging of optic nerve | 20 | $547 | $25 |
| Imaging of retina | 14 | $392 | $28 |
2019: 5 services
| Return visit (30+ min) | 65 | $5,322 | $82 |
| Established patient complete exam of visual system | 13 | $1,280 | $91 |
| Photography of the retina | 22 | $948 | $43 |
| Short return visit (20+ min) | 13 | $925 | $62 |
| Imaging of retina | 22 | $720 | $33 |
2018: 1 service
| Return visit (30+ min) | 23 | $1,869 | $81 |
Medicaid work
$0 in 2023
Medicaid paid $0 for 157 billed services this clinician did in 2023, up to 17 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.
| DETERMINATION REFRACTIVE STATE | 29 | $0 |
| Fitting of bifocal spectacles | 12 | $0 |
| Frames, purchases | 116 | $0 |
| 2023 | 157 | 3 | 17 | $0 |
| 2022 | 82 | 2 | 15 | $0 |
| 2020 | 143 | 2 | 21 | $0 |
| 2019 | 73 | 2 | 16 | $0 |
See the largest Medicaid services in earlier years
2022
| DETERMINATION REFRACTIVE STATE | 26 | $0 |
| Frames, purchases | 56 | $0 |
2020
| DETERMINATION REFRACTIVE STATE | 59 | $0 |
| Frames, purchases | 84 | $0 |
2019
| DETERMINATION REFRACTIVE STATE | 29 | $0 |
| Frames, purchases | 44 | $0 |
Drugs they prescribed that Part D paid
$1,591
Pharmacies billed $1,591 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 34) in 2024. Too few prescriptions to compare fairly with other clinicians.
24 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $1,591 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.
| Latanoprost | 31 | $398 | $13 |
Year by year
| 2024 | 34 | None | 0% (0) | None | $1,591 |
| 2023 | 31 | 12 | 0% (0) | 45% | $1,819 |
| 2022 | 26 | None | 0% (0) | None | $2,084 |
| 2021 | 17 | None | 0% (0) | 76% | $6,528 |
| 2020 | 29 | None | 0% (0) | 66% | $5,482 |
| 2019 | 15 | None | 0% (0) | None | $3,686 |
Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.
See the drugs prescribed each year
2023: 1 drug
| Latanoprost | 26 | $533 | $21 |
2022: 1 drug
| Latanoprost | 20 | $278 | $14 |
2020: 1 drug
| Olopatadine | 12 | $487 | $41 |
Money from drug and device companies
$136 in 2025
| 2025 | 3 | 5 | None | $136 |
| 2024 | 3 | 6 | None | $123 |
| 2023 | 2 | 3 | None | $55 |
| 2022 | 3 | 7 | None | $138 |
| 2020 | 4 | 5 | None | $84 |
| 2019 | 2 | 3 | None | $50 |
Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.
A payment is not proof that care is biased.
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care | None | $54 | 2 payments
|
| Bausch & Lomb Americas | Infuse | $44 | 2 payments
|
| Alcon Vision | Precision7 | $38 | 1 payment
|
See all 5 published payments
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care | Meals · 2025-09-16 | None | $29 |
| Alcon Vision | Meals · 2025-08-19 | Precision7 | $38 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas | Meals · 2025-08-01 | None | $22 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas | Meals · 2025-04-14 | Infuse | $22 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care | Meals · 2025-02-20 | None | $25 |
See earlier years (2024, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019)
2024: $123
| Alcon Vision | Total30 | $88 | 4 payments
|
| Bausch & Lomb Americas | Infuse | $21 | 1 payment
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| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care | None | $14 | 1 payment
|
2023: $55
| Alcon Vision | Total30 | $42 | 2 payments
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| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care | Acuvue | $13 | 1 payment
|
2022: $138
| Alcon Vision | Total30 | $56 | 3 payments
|
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care | Acuvue | $44 | 2 payments
|
| Abbvie | Restasis Multidose | $39 | 2 payments
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2020: $84
| Alcon Vision | Systane | $33 | 2 payments
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| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | None Specified | $19 | 1 payment
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| Carl Zeiss Meditec | None Specified | $17 | 1 payment
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| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care | Acuvue | $15 | 1 payment
|
2019: $50
| Bausch & Lomb a division of Bausch Health US | Biotrue One Day | $33 | 2 payments
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| Alcon Vision | Systane | $17 | 1 payment
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Professional record
- NPI
- 1972902823
- Licence
- CA OPT 15013 TLG, IL 046.010840Illinois 046010840: Inactive
- Trained
- State University of New York - State College Optometry, 2014
- Gender
- Female
More record details
- Sole proprietor
- No
- Taxonomy
- Federal specialty code 152W00000X (152W00000X)
- Mailing address
- 1601 Arden Way, Sacramento, CA, 95815
- NPI first listed
- 2014-08-16
- NPI last updated
- 2018-08-07
This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.
Extra NPI addresses: 9531 S Cicero Ave, Oak Lawn, IL, 60453