Complex Family Planning in California
10 providers, $45,034 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
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 complex family planning clinicians in California
Across 4 complex family planning clinicians in California who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $14,010 in total — an average of $3,503 each, of which $3,503 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
- 1Paul BlumenthalStanford$20,722
- 2Melissa ChenSacramento$11,916
- 3Suji UhmStanford$8,399
- 4Maryam GuiahiSanta Barbara$1,721
- 5Anne FlynnSacramento$1,558
- 6Heather SweeneyLos Angeles$257
- 7Jaclyn GrentzerRiverside$255
- 8Jayne CaronPalo Alto$206
- 9Jennifer KernsSan Francisco$0
- 10Kate ShawStanford$0