Licensed Practical Nurse in California
28 providers, $18,747 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $173.
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 licensed practical nurse clinicians in California
Across 4 licensed practical nurse clinicians in California who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $184,925 in total — an average of $46,231 each, of which $46,202 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
- 1Richard TwoySan Jose$5,703
- 2Maryam AhmadianBeverly Hills$3,246
- 3Samrang SchimelpfenigSan Diego$3,045
- 4Farnoush KarimpourVisalia$1,405
- 5Nastaran MinassiansLos Angeles$1,145
- 6Jayne SmithSeal Beach$1,085
- 7Rosa LeeSan Francisco$353
- 8Christy Henderson PetersonStockton$325
- 9Harold GomezWest Covina$280
- 10Leslie ReynoldsSan Diego$240
- 11Heather WestWalnut Creek$233
- 12Sojeong KangTorrance$231
- 13Beatrice BaileySan Bernardino$218
- 14Gregory BaumgartenFrench Camp$173
- 15Melissa FreyLong Beach$152
- 16Kathy StevensonSan Clemente$137
- 17Reshma AfsarAnaheim$125
- 18Susan WoodardTorrance$104
- 19Sarah GoldbergLos Angeles$94
- 20Mary TuMonterey Park$76
- 21Nickolas AguirreBrawley$62
- 22Beverly NaglestadLaguna Hills$58
- 23Maria StephensonLong Beach$57
- 24Maggie RobertsCastro Valley$50
- 25Angelina AbbaszadeLake Forest$50
- 26Joanna YangLoma Linda$47
- 27Cindy FlorentinoChula Vista$31
- 28Leslie ClarkSan Jose$23