Home Health in California
11 providers, $17,633 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 home health clinicians in California
Across 2 home health clinicians in California who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $10,429 in total — an average of $5,215 each, of which $5,215 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
- 1Janice RichardsonFontana$9,248
- 2Estrella GabrilloUpland$5,376
- 3Margaret AshbyLong Beach$1,537
- 4Catherine HillSacramento$684
- 5Jennifer Ty de GuzmanParamount$202
- 6Kim PierceShingle Springs$150
- 7Hayley OhlwilerSan Juan Capistrano$144
- 8Louis MarottaTemecula$127
- 9Gina MendozaMontclair$126
- 10Jennifer PerezModesto$23
- 11Nancy Gutierrez-FernandezSacramento$17