Diagnostic Ultrasound in California
13 providers, $3,411 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 diagnostic ultrasound clinicians in California
Across 5 diagnostic ultrasound clinicians in California who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $663,676 in total — an average of $132,735 each, of which $131,956 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
- 1Stephen VoFullerton$1,271
- 2Michael HarmonEureka$743
- 3Edward GabrielLos Angeles$555
- 4Puja ParikhArleta$396
- 5Charles TujoTravis Afb$115
- 6Shanoe CuttsSan Diego$100
- 7Alina TsengHacienda Hts$85
- 8John HoldenPasadena$56
- 9Ruben BrechnerLos Angeles$32
- 10Roger OrlikMission Viejo$29
- 11Robert AgulnekSherman Oaks$15
- 12Kevin KellyPasadena$14
- 13Daniel RubinStanford$0