Kelby Arden Hempel, DO

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician. Those with a page here are linked.

• St Clare Hospital Hospital · Lakewood, WA · listed as Saint Clare Hospital
• St Joseph Medical Center Hospital · Tacoma, WA
• St Anthony Hospital Hospital · Gig Harbor, WA
• St Francis Community Hospital Hospital · Federal Way, WA
• St Michael Medical Center Hospital · Silverdale, WA

Colleagues at Franciscan Medical Group

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 1417 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Barry Alan Aaronson, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Seattle, WA
• Hao Wen Chen, PA-C Physician Assistant · Olympia, WA
• Gregory P Duff, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · Silverdale, WA
• William K Hirota, MD Gastroenterology Physician · Tacoma, WA
• Kristina Marie Ieronimakis Gerontology Nurse Practitioner · Silverdale, WA
• Dr. Michael Lee McCord, MD Family Medicine Physician · Port Orchard, WA
• Jessica Miranda, ARNP Gerontology Nurse Practitioner · Tacoma, WA
• Dr. Thankam Janardanan Nair, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Tacoma, WA
• Christopher Colin Rankin, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · Silverdale, WA
• Conner Martin Smith, DO Family Medicine Physician · Bremerton, WA
• Marvin Paleracio Tolentino, ARNP Family Nurse Practitioner · Puyallup, WA
• Pragathy Vutla, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Tacoma, WA

Other providers in Tacoma

• Pawan Chawla, MD

  Individual Pulmonary Disease Physician · NPI 1023197258

  2420 S State St, Tacoma, WA 98405-2845 · (253) 426-4000

• Dr. Chelsea Lee Garner, MD

  Individual Pulmonary Disease Physician · NPI 1700240140

  9040 Jackson Ave, Tacoma, WA 98431-4504 · (253) 968-2252

• Kurt Warren Jensen, MD

  Individual Pulmonary Disease Physician · NPI 1578752978

  2420 S State St, Tacoma, WA 98405-2845 · (253) 426-4000

• Dr. Aparna Kadambi, MD

  Individual Pulmonary Disease Physician · NPI 1669740635

  1708 Yakima Ave Ste 300, Tacoma, WA 98405-5309 · (253) 363-8700

• Richard A Kahlstrom, MD

  Individual Pulmonary Disease Physician · NPI 1093708992

  2420 S State St, Tacoma, WA 98405-2845 · (253) 426-4000

• Dr. Kevin Michael Kumke, MD

  Individual Pulmonary Disease Physician · NPI 1245201698

  Madigan Army Medical Ctr Jblm, Tacoma, WA 98430-0001 · (253) 968-3214