Independent Medical Examiner in California
12 providers, $13,804 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 independent medical examiner clinicians in California
Across 1 independent medical examiner clinicians in California who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $56,249 in total — an average of $56,249 each, of which $56,249 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
- 1Maxine LigginsLos Angeles$8,191
- 2Bennet OmaluSacramento$2,009
- 3Louis KleinConcord$1,562
- 4Edward JungGranada Hills$942
- 5Kenn ShojiSacramento$592
- 6Steven ZaneStockton$274
- 7Richard HymanLos Angeles$111
- 8Steven ScribnerRoseville$34
- 9Timothy MarklePasadena$32
- 10Jarmilla RodriguezTorrance$27
- 11Patrick WalterOakland$17
- 12Randolph GibbsMecca$13