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Emergency Medicine in California

6,006 providers, $7,318,949 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $16.

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 emergency medicine clinicians in California

Part B allowed per clinician, 2024
$56,830
Of which, services
$55,641
Clinicians billing Part B
5,167

Across 5,167 emergency medicine clinicians in California who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $293,639,947 in total — an average of $56,830 each, of which $55,641 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. 1Michael BlueLone Pine$914,835
  2. 2Andrew AccardiEncinitas$382,617
  3. 3Fredrick Melik-AbrahamianSylmar$353,963
  4. 4Graham WalkerStanford$308,777
  5. 5Douglas WhiteOakland$220,011
  6. 6Paul PearigenSan Diego$207,690
  7. 7Richard KozakMission Viejo$203,407
  8. 8Oron FrenkelSan Francisco$200,920
  9. 9Matthew KaplanMission Viejo$195,427
  10. 10John LiboonPoway$188,310
  11. 11Eric GrossSacramento$185,330
  12. 12Ziad AliFrench Camp$167,509
  13. 13Christopher PeabodyLos Angeles$162,605
  14. 14Sevasti DamesSan Francisco$158,138
  15. 15Amanda HoldenEscondido$102,865
  16. 16Christopher CoyneSan Diego$93,267
  17. 17Charles StempleThousand Oaks$87,191
  18. 18Gagan Deep SinghMerced$82,066
  19. 19James QuinnPalo Alto$82,032
  20. 20Samuel BeckermanLos Angeles$80,910
  21. 21Italo BrownStanford$79,146
  22. 22Diane BirnbaumerTorrance$78,103
  23. 23Kevin BuckmanLodi$74,015
  24. 24Ti TsayBellflower$66,509
  25. 25Selene CastrejonSacramento$62,490
  26. 26Nathan ZundelOceanside$60,542
  27. 27Erik AndersonOakland$58,216
  28. 28Michael CostelloPleasanton$55,090
  29. 29Seamus LonerganSan Francisco$53,270
  30. 30John KendallStanford$51,816
  31. 31Bharat KothakotaLos Angeles$51,448
  32. 32Stephen Gormicanla Jolla$42,784
  33. 33Robert CockrellFountain Valley$36,281
  34. 34Bradley BaileySan Diego$35,099
  35. 35Joe WhittingtonFontana$35,000
  36. 36Andrew DesjardinsSan Diego$34,971
  37. 37David GhilarducciStanford$34,547
  38. 38Ramon JohnsonMission Viejo$33,430
  39. 39Megann YoungFresno$33,165
  40. 40Edmund HsuOrange$27,115
  41. 41Laleh GharahbaghianStanford$26,657
  42. 42Jailyn AvilaTemecula$24,913
  43. 43Ron MelendezSan Pedro$22,770
  44. 44Daniel NishijimaSacramento$22,634
  45. 45Matthew StreitzTravis Afb$22,000
  46. 46Donald SchreiberPalo Alto$21,900
  47. 47Daniel FirestoneMission Viejo$21,426
  48. 48Andres SmithChula Vista$20,478
  49. 49Jay LeeLos Angeles$19,736
  50. 50Michael NielsenSan Diego$19,423
  51. 51H KojianGlendale$19,264
  52. 52Fairuz Despujos HarfoucheLoma Linda$19,221
  53. 53Kyle KelsonSan Luis Obispo$18,876
  54. 54Roger SchechterEscondido$18,317
  55. 55Alexander SackeimStanford$17,188
  56. 56Ian Reillyla Jolla$16,896
  57. 57Matthew BeattyNorthridge$16,469
  58. 58Mary FuchsEncinitas$16,363
  59. 59Anna Ryabets-LienhardLos Angeles$15,509
  60. 60Gregory GilbertPalo Alto$15,407
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