Adult Medicine in California
221 providers, $1,947,149 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $243.
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 adult medicine clinicians in California
Across 109 adult medicine clinicians in California who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $12,063,096 in total — an average of $110,671 each, of which $109,446 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
- 1Susan HutchinsonLaguna Hills$1,005,187
- 2Natalia GuzmanLos Angeles$583,500
- 3Richard FauselRancho Mirage$30,116
- 4Benedicto EstoestaValley Springs$21,999
- 5Antoine DipsiaW. Sacramento$20,794
- 6Patrick WelchArroyo Grande$20,089
- 7Craig BobsonManteca$18,719
- 8Tin WongLos Angeles$18,499
- 9Sofia VaismanWoodland Hills$13,282
- 10Janja ViltuznikOrange$12,663
- 11Tamara MaherLos Alamitos$12,107
- 12Juan PosadaSan Francisco$11,045
- 13Harpreet GrewalTracy$9,769
- 14Dawn VollmannBrea$8,228
- 15David VescoCalabasas$8,141
- 16Reza MesbahLos Angeles$8,114
- 17Philip MadridOrange$7,602
- 18Salil NadkarniWest Hollywood$7,505
- 19Keri MontgomerySt. Helena$6,850
- 20Robert FerreraSacramento$6,790
- 21Anita JacksonTemecula$5,955
- 22Keri ValdezCalexico$5,374
- 23Marigangaiah MahadevAnaheim Hills$4,750
- 24Subena TilleyFremont$4,491
- 25Madeline NguyenSacramento$3,950
- 26Rong ShenSan Francisco$3,468
- 27Mary CerniPlacentia$3,437
- 28Vincent MaddelaBakersfield$2,979
- 29Alina HaiderModesto$2,908
- 30Soquel SchaferSan Luis Obispo$2,843
- 31Jina WilliamsVista$2,658
- 32Adam BlankSan Luis Obispo$2,602
- 33Yelena VaynerovWest Hollywood$2,514
- 34Robert TracyLos Angeles$2,174
- 35Michael CurleyMurrieta$2,080
- 36Welim AzingeEl Centro$2,009
- 37Ildiko Gerbatsch BornemiszaSan Diego$1,988
- 38Pacifico SantosSan Jose$1,979
- 39John FeeneyMurrieta$1,882
- 40Rehana HethumuniMontebello$1,757
- 41Paymon BanafsheLos Angeles$1,737
- 42Thaibinh PhanGarden Grove$1,691
- 43Luis MartinezFresno$1,689
- 44Albert MuFresno$1,517
- 45Katherine Elizabeth YoungRedwood City$1,414
- 46Michael MouaSacramento$1,399
- 47Yasuko KidokoroSan Diego$1,290
- 48Surjit MahalFremont$1,284
- 49Roger WangSanta Ana$1,279
- 50Abigail SotoSan Bernardino$1,271
- 51Shakti SrivastavaBakersfield$1,096
- 52Munira HusainThousand Oaks$1,079
- 53Gessie LurlayFresno$1,062
- 54Mayette GonzalesRiverside$986
- 55Jagdish PatelTracy$972
- 56Evelyn GomezHanford$887
- 57Rebecca LewisSacramento$866
- 58Angelina NguyenGardena$822
- 59Kalpana RaoVallejo$808
- 60Donald LeeNewark$719