Case Management in California
27 providers, $2,161 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $43.
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 case management clinicians in California
Across 1 case management clinicians in California who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $9,176 in total — an average of $9,176 each, of which $9,176 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
- 1Shanica DavisEl Monte$385
- 2Tamara LiangLivermore$264
- 3Hannah ElliottSan Luis Obispo$208
- 4Christine MartinezMartinez$141
- 5Mina NgoSan Jose$139
- 6Naomi BrownEscondido$126
- 7Sarah PhanSan Diego$118
- 8Thuy leGarden Grove$80
- 9Sarah DowdleAuburn$77
- 10Hang NguyenFairfield$73
- 11Erica SutherlandSan Rafael$71
- 12Dorothy TranSanta Ana$63
- 13Katherine RodriguezSan Jose$53
- 14Aurelia ThompsonCorona$43
- 15Brandy MorenoCommerce$41
- 16Patricia SilvaTulare$37
- 17Stephanie leSan Jose$34
- 18Cynthia PuPalo Alto$32
- 19Laura AustinInglewood$25
- 20Delia SantanaInglewood$25
- 21Lori SmithSunnyvale$24
- 22Deonna ThompsonOakland$19
- 23Beatriz NavarroInglewood$19
- 24Gerard CurranSan Diego$17
- 25Elaine BarnesSan Jose$17
- 26Linda GuzmanHuntington Park$16
- 27Vivian TranSan Jose$14