Gene Leonard Oppenheim, MD
I speak: English
My gender: Male
Where I practice
- Emergency service
- Urgent care services
- After-hours services
- Pharmacy services
- No emergency services
- No urgent care services
- No after-hours services
- No pharmacy services
About me
Welcome to my Kaiser Permanente Web page! I joined the family medicine department at our West Los Angeles facility in 1990. I had come from a 10-year solo private practice in Santa Monica. Since it first opened in April 1993, I have had my office at the Kaiser Permanente Culver Marina Medical Office Building. Besides my personal practice in family medicine, I am also the physician-in-charge here. We provide the medical advice, medicines, or treatments you need to treat your particular problems.
Biography
I attended Hollywood High School. I obtained a degree in psychology and graduated from medical school at UCLA. I also obtained a master’s of public health in epidemiology. I decided to train as a family physician. Family medicine was a new specialty at the time. Its philosophy was to prepare physicians to take care of all members of a family, of all ages, and to focus not just on individual medical problems, but to treat the individual in the context of the family and the community. In Santa Monica, where I live, I was on the Commission on Older Americans and was the physician for a nonprofit that maintained shelters for battered women and their children, runaway and throwaway adolescents, and the homeless. My wife and I have three grown boys. My major interests outside of work are reading and collecting books.
About my practice
My practice is consistent with the philosophy of family medicine. I take care of all ages. I provide care for acute and chronic medical problems, including the treatment of hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, and skin problems. I provide services for adults, children, women, and older patients. Whenever necessary, I utilize specialists. I am dedicated to seeing my patients when the need arises. I encourage my patients who have access to computers to use the Kaiser Permanente Web site (www.kp.org) to communicate with my office, when appropriate, through our secure email system. My medical assistant and our staff are dedicated to taking care of your needs and assuring that they are met personally and effectively.
How I thrive
In order to maximize your well-being and achieve longevity, you need to practice a healthy lifestyle. If you smoke, you must try to stop, and we have programs that can help. We want you to exercise 30 to 60 minutes most days of the week. You could also spend this time with friends, significant others, and children. Use it to listen to music or audio books. Eat well, with more fruits and vegetables, whole grains, beans, legumes, and fish, while consuming less red meat and butterfat. Check out www.kp.org for health tips and more details in our health encyclopedia online. I am an exercise walker and use the opportunity to listen to audio books while legging around my neighborhood.
My office
Languages spoken by medical staff
Help is available in your language. Learn more.
My provider type
Physicians and SurgeonsMedical groups, plans, and locations
Southern California Permanente Medical Group
- Exclusive Provider Organization (EPO)
- HMO
- Medi-Cal Managed Care
- Point-of-Service Plan (POS)
- Senior Advantage
Contact information
- After-hours advice
- 1-833-574-2273 (toll free)
- Appointments/information
- 1-833-574-2273 (toll free)
- California Relay Service
- 711 (TTY for the hearing/speech impaired)
My training, certifications and licensing
Medical school
UC Los Angeles, School of MedicineBoard certification
This information is not available at this time.Medical training
Internship
Rotating
University of Washington Medical CenterResidency
Family Practice
University of Washington Medical CenterJoined Permanente Medical Group
1990Active license information
License number
G35981License type
Physician and SurgeonLicense issuing state
CALIFORNIANational Provider Identifier (NPI)
1558385369Cultural Competency Training (CCT)
CompletedMy hospitals
This information is not available at this time.
To find a provider's office hours, search our facility directory.
The information in this online directory is updated periodically. The availability of physicians, hospitals, providers, and services may change. Information about a practitioner is provided to us by the practitioner or is obtained as part of the credentialing process. If you have questions, please call us at 1-800-464-4000 (toll free). For the hearing and speech impaired: 1-800-464-4000 (toll free) or TTY 711 (toll free). You can also call the Medical Board of California at 916-263-2382, or visit their website.
We want to speak to you in the language that you’re most comfortable with when you call or visit us. Qualified interpreter services, including sign language, are available at no cost, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week during all hours of operations at all points of contact. We do not encourage the use of family, friends or minors as interpreters. Only the services of interpreters and qualified staff are used to provide language assistance. These may include bilingual providers, staff, and healthcare interpreters. In-person, telephone, video, and alternative modes of communication are available. Learn more about interpreter services.
If you would like to report an error in provider or facility information, please contact us.
Medicare Members: To request a hard copy of Kaiser Permanente’s provider directory, please call our Member Services department at 1-800-443-0815, seven days a week, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Kaiser Permanente will mail a hard copy of the provider directory to you within three (3) business days of your request. Kaiser Permanente may ask whether your request for a hard copy is a one-time request or if you are requesting to receive the provider directory in hard copy permanently.
If you request it, your request for hard copies of the provider directory remains until you leave Kaiser Permanente or request that hard copies be discontinued.
Medi-Cal Members: This directory includes Kaiser Permanente’s outpatient pharmacies. You can get any drugs covered by Kaiser Permanente at one of these pharmacies. You can get outpatient drugs covered by Medi-Cal at any Medi-Cal Rx Pharmacy. It does not have to be a Kaiser Permanente network pharmacy. Most Kaiser Permanente network pharmacies are Medi-Cal Rx pharmacies. Your pharmacy can tell you if it is part of the Medi-Cal Rx network. If you want to find a Medi-Cal pharmacy outside of Kaiser Permanente, you can use the Medi-Cal Rx Pharmacy Locator online at www.Medi-CalRx.dhcs.ca.gov. You can also call Medi-Cal Rx Customer Service at 1-800-977-2273, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (TTY 711 Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.).
Medi-Cal Members: Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports services require prior authorization and are limited to members who meet specific eligibility criteria.
Kaiser Permanente enrollees have full and equal access to covered services, including enrollees with disabilities as required under the Federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
Kaiser Permanente uses the same quality, member experience, or cost-related measures to select practitioners and facilities in Marketplace Silver-tier plans as it does for all other Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (KFHP) products and lines of business. The measures may include, but are not limited to, HEDIS/CAHPS performance, member/patient complaints, patient safety scores, hospital quality measures, and geographic need. Members enrolled in KFHP Marketplace plans have access to all professional, institutional and ancillary health care providers who participate in KFHP plans’ contracted provider network, in accordance with the terms of members’ KFHP plan of coverage. All Kaiser Permanente Medical Group physicians and network physicians are subject to the same quality review processes and certifications.
Kaiser Permanente uses the same geographic distribution consideration to select hospitals in Marketplace plans as it does for all other Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (KFHP) products and lines of business. Accessibility of medical offices and medical centers in this directory: All Kaiser Permanente facilities are accessible to members.
This page was last updated on: 12/12/2024