Family Practice in California
2,195 providers, $140,399 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $0.
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 family practice clinicians in California
Across 2,195 family practice clinicians in California who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $86,134,584 in total — an average of $39,241 each, of which $36,671 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
- 1David CahnSan Jose$39,800
- 2Linh NguyenSan Jose$14,815
- 3Paige YoshisatoVallejo$14,411
- 4Boris VaismanWoodland Hills$10,877
- 5Sharon LaughlinRiverside$7,598
- 6Michael KanLos Gatos$4,129
- 7Claudia CarranzaBakersfield$4,016
- 8Sunil HebbarHermosa Beach$3,109
- 9Monica SuNewbury Park$3,062
- 10Taraneh MatinPasadena$2,961
- 11Catherine ChernBurbank$2,957
- 12Soheila DelrahimWoodland Hills$2,287
- 13Leo LabunskySherman Oaks$2,114
- 14Andrea EspinosaPorterville$1,994
- 15Shahriar SafvatiBeverly Hills$1,722
- 16Mohammad ArshadSacramento$1,685
- 17Manuel MendozaNorwalk$1,660
- 18Hector CastilloLos Angeles$1,610
- 19Maria MerisAnaheim$1,512
- 20Robert WarwarVentura$1,196
- 21Sonali MondkarHemet$1,182
- 22Roberto TostadoSan Marino$1,157
- 23Fernando MontelongoOrange$1,069
- 24Zareen ChoudhuryTorrance$944
- 25Ajitpal TiwanaBakersfield$902
- 26Natasha KhokharFrench Camp$779
- 27Julio RomeroEncinitas$729
- 28Pradeep SinghLancaster$624
- 29Armando AlvarezBakersfield$525
- 30Rose OchiengOakland$475
- 31Irene ChenFontana$469
- 32Patrick BachouraDiamond Bar$460
- 33Vikash PernenkilSan Diego$411
- 34Summer NguyenSanta Ana$409
- 35Elmer SymonettColton$341
- 36Amit AlgotarLoma Linda$322
- 37Anna GoudarziColton$313
- 38Carina LopezSan Diego$276
- 39Harsh PatelSan Leandro$268
- 40Furzan AzamSacramento$252
- 41Liang XueModesto$249
- 42Trung DaoWestminster$237
- 43Andrew PawliwecPalmdale$220
- 44Sona NajafiValencia$205
- 45Randall ArmstrongSacramento$193
- 46Jose PaudaSalinas$185
- 47Uchenna OnwuegbusiLos Angeles$183
- 48Kacie PaikRiverside$163
- 49Carmin LiangMerced$161
- 50Kailash DhamijaArtesia$155
- 51Albeer IbrahimEncino$151
- 52Jaclyn MiyamotoFontana$146
- 53Divesh GoelRedondo Beach$141
- 54Bhavika RakholiaRancho Mirage$140
- 55Andrew SinghVentura$138
- 56Cindy HerBakersfield$125
- 57Minh Thanh NguyenSan Jose$123
- 58Tala GhadimiGlendale$103
- 59Brian AhnChino$98
- 60Jason ChenSalinas$94