Clinical Pathology in California
20 providers, $714,249 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $248.
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 clinical pathology clinicians in California
Across 5 clinical pathology clinicians in California who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $186,877 in total — an average of $37,375 each, of which $37,375 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
- 1Alan EpsteinLos Angeles$530,774
- 2Mark WahrenbrockSan Diego$129,516
- 3Bing ZhangStanford$35,959
- 4Erick LinAliso Viejo$7,371
- 5Arun WiitaSan Francisco$4,359
- 6Zhen MeiLos Angeles$2,954
- 7Jennifer ArmstrongNewport Beach$1,468
- 8Gisela Marrero RiveraSan Francisco$683
- 9John SoongSan Diego$411
- 10Ryan SchmidtLos Angeles$248
- 11Edina Wappler-GuzzettaSan Francisco$142
- 12Caleb KingSan Diego$113
- 13Ishwarlal JialalSacramento$71
- 14Arjun ReddyOrange$31
- 15Steven BakerStanford$29
- 16Ian FinnSan Diego$28
- 17Tyler JenkinsMarysville$27
- 18Shirong WangDuarte$26
- 19Maya KasowskiStanford$21
- 20Haik MkhikianOrange$18