Molecular Genetic Pathology in California
13 providers, $12,784 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 molecular genetic pathology clinicians in California
Across 6 molecular genetic pathology clinicians in California who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $466,504 in total — an average of $77,751 each, of which $77,751 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
- 1Girish PutchaStanford$10,928
- 2Jeffry SimkoSan Francisco$590
- 3Anamaria MunteanuLos Angeles$401
- 4Beatrice KnudsenLos Angeles$311
- 5Jennifer HummelAliso Viejo$168
- 6Patricia AounDuarte$122
- 7Danica WiredjaStanford$105
- 8Robert BooksteinLos Angeles$44
- 9Petros GiannikopoulosBerkeley$41
- 10Wayne GrodyLos Angeles$34
- 11Oana VeleStanford$21
- 12Jae ElkindSan Diego$20
- 13Justin OdegaardPalo Alto$0