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Cornea and External Diseases Specialist in California

50 providers, $1,510,562 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $4,024.

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 cornea and external diseases specialist clinicians in California

Part B allowed per clinician, 2024
$282,650
Of which, services
$275,205
Clinicians billing Part B
40

Across 40 cornea and external diseases specialist clinicians in California who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $11,305,991 in total — an average of $282,650 each, of which $275,205 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

  1. 1Sumit GargIrvine$807,981
  2. 2Jillian ChongBeverly Hills$112,694
  3. 3Tyson KimSan Francisco$91,498
  4. 4Edward MancheStanford$78,188
  5. 5Michael SavetskyCulver City$63,007
  6. 6Michael SaidelSonoma$51,411
  7. 7Matthew WadeIrvine$37,983
  8. 8Lawrence ChaoIrvine$36,062
  9. 9William ChristianSanta Monica$32,686
  10. 10Alexander FosterEncinitas$28,874
  11. 11Jimmy LeeIrvine$16,882
  12. 12Peter AndrewsSacramento$14,108
  13. 13Eric LinebargerSan Diego$13,655
  14. 14Bradley BarnettSacramento$11,750
  15. 15Ahmadreza MoradiNewport Beach$11,398
  16. 16Elizabeth ShenIrvine$11,156
  17. 17Rakhi MelvaniIrvine$10,067
  18. 18Tommy KornSan Diego$8,966
  19. 19Colin IpChula Vista$6,855
  20. 20Maulik ZaveriVista$6,435
  21. 21Charles LinStanford$5,044
  22. 22Shannon McCabeWalnut Creek$4,956
  23. 23David MyungStanford$4,295
  24. 24Enoch NamModesto$4,086
  25. 25David ChoiRiverside$4,024
  26. 26Lucy ZhangGreenbrae$3,388
  27. 27Geoffrey TabinStanford$3,334
  28. 28Junru YanOrange$2,748
  29. 29Stephanie ChenLos Altos$2,583
  30. 30Rami GabrielLaguna Hills$2,540
  31. 31Hannah Marie Muniz Castrola Quinta$2,474
  32. 32Kirsten WagnerSanta Barbara$2,034
  33. 33Lillian TranSacramento$2,018
  34. 34Charles YuStanford$1,789
  35. 35Angela Nahlla Jolla$1,705
  36. 36Jennifer Rose-NussbaumerStanford$1,639
  37. 37Bishoy SaidSan Diego$1,425
  38. 38Jeffrey MaSacramento$1,366
  39. 39Mathew MargolisSacramento$1,161
  40. 40Bethlehem MekonnenStanford$1,056
  41. 41Milad ModabberSacramento$965
  42. 42Gabriel ValerioSan Diego$935
  43. 43Joanne ChoiSan Francisco$841
  44. 44Amber HoangMonterey Park$766
  45. 45Mustafa SafiEureka$591
  46. 46Alexi GeevargheseSan Diego$394
  47. 47Erika EllisSacramento$372
  48. 48Adam DaoSan Diego$290
  49. 49Shyamanga BorooahSan Diego$50
  50. 50Kathryn GardnerSanta Monica$35
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