Adolescent Medicine in California
202 providers, $270,652 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $252.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays adolescent medicine clinicians in California
Across 21 adolescent medicine clinicians in California who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,063,602 in total — an average of $98,267 each, of which $94,862 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Leman YelOrange$88,640
- 2Michelle RolandLos Angeles$22,000
- 3Venu Prabakerla Mesa$14,857
- 4Kanani TitchenSan Diego$7,686
- 5David NguyenFountain Valley$6,450
- 6Anahit BlikianGlendale$5,459
- 7Lisa LawSan Francisco$5,386
- 8Marilou CruzDowney$5,190
- 9Albina BenabayeStockton$5,074
- 10Mohamad KadriLos Angeles$5,020
- 11Andrew KrasnoffEncino$4,916
- 12James FloresRolling Hills Estates$4,278
- 13Julie DouglassTorrance$3,574
- 14Marie MedawarEncino$3,252
- 15Katrina KaemmererRolling Hills Estates$2,946
- 16Lynn OsherEncino$2,905
- 17Sandra McCollEl Centro$2,681
- 18Jay MadhureMission Hills$2,547
- 19Peter ShulmanEncino$2,423
- 20Sina BakhshaeiTemecula$2,394
- 21Kimberly DiamondBeverly Hills$2,147
- 22Pauline PepekHuntington Beach$1,990
- 23Grace KasamatsuHuntington Beach$1,869
- 24Derek McCraeLong Beach$1,701
- 25Lelanie LunaGlendale$1,678
- 26Lauren CrosbyBeverly Hills$1,653
- 27Michael SchoenwetterValencia$1,558
- 28Judith WeinerBeverly Hills$1,496
- 29Michelle BennettHuntington Beach$1,458
- 30Linh VuongWalnut Creek$1,310
- 31Jan JohnsonAliso Viejo$1,305
- 32Brian KirschnerValencia$1,287
- 33Jennifer JohnsonNewport Beach$1,255
- 34Roger BindraAnaheim$1,175
- 35Jeffrey TaylorCosta Mesa$1,140
- 36Raoul del MarRocklin$1,121
- 37Ronald NagelBeverly Hills$1,119
- 38Maham FarshidpourLoma Linda$1,112
- 39Peri GunayCosta Mesa$1,108
- 40Pilar CondryMoreno Valley$1,021
- 41Ken ChonWhittier$1,007
- 42Kathy BrockettValencia$999
- 43Duc NguyenRosemead$981
- 44Lindsey BruckerTorrance$951
- 45Yu Fei WuWhittier$944
- 46Paul Imusla Mesa$923
- 47Gursharan SainiBakersfield$919
- 48Daniel ScaffPasadena$887
- 49Jana WellsWhittier$859
- 50Zosima Carino-GatebIndio$857
- 51Lydia EliasTorrance$849
- 52Shikha GargFolsom$833
- 53George NakashimaLos Angeles$832
- 54Victor DalfornoOceanside$801
- 55Vera Meier-BennettPorterville$798
- 56Ernest MackeyTustin$778
- 57Barton BilleciIrvine$770
- 58Bette CarlsonCosta Mesa$755
- 59Anne-Marie DuliegePalo Alto$734
- 60Shala HeshmatiIrvine$698