Neurocritical Care in California
65 providers, $229,655 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $192.
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 neurocritical care clinicians in California
Across 58 neurocritical care clinicians in California who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $3,599,404 in total — an average of $62,059 each, of which $62,059 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
- 1Nerses SanossianLos Angeles$105,597
- 2May Kim-TenserLos Angeles$29,242
- 3Wengui YuOrange$21,524
- 4Marion BuckwalterStanford$20,484
- 5Johannes Pulst-KorenbergLos Angeles$12,041
- 6Arash AfshinnikFresno$10,012
- 7Shouri LahiriLos Angeles$5,588
- 8Shahed ToossiWest Hollywood$3,513
- 9Jack WangStanford$2,500
- 10Fawaz TarziLos Angeles$2,110
- 11Lucia Rivera-LaraStanford$1,437
- 12Charlotte ZhongLos Angeles$1,309
- 13Courtney TakahashiWalnut Creek$1,198
- 14Steven YangSacramento$1,075
- 15Manoj MittalSacramento$1,061
- 16Shahab KhazanehdariOrange$963
- 17Lara ZimmermannSacramento$888
- 18Anirudha RathnamOrange$835
- 19Barry CzeislerTorrance$563
- 20Ryan MartinSacramento$539
- 21Faisal AhmedRoseville$493
- 22Alan NovaSan Diego$439
- 23Angud MehdiOrange$416
- 24Jaspreet MannSacramento$411
- 25Stuart GlassnerFresno$381
- 26Kiruba DharaneeswaranRedding$324
- 27Manmeet KaurRoseville$289
- 28Benjamin EmanuelLos Angeles$270
- 29Grace KuoLos Angeles$269
- 30Isabel StephensRoseville$250
- 31Patrick ChenIrvine$249
- 32Benjamin StuartLos Angeles$240
- 33Krupa SavaliaSacramento$192
- 34Jonathan RodriguezSan Diego$182
- 35Yama AkbariSylmar$165
- 36Adriana Rosero EnriquezLos Angeles$157
- 37Navaz KaranjiaSan Diego$150
- 38Sebina BulicLos Angeles$147
- 39Hannah KirschStanford$146
- 40Amytis TowfighiLos Angeles$145
- 41Mariyam SaviourSan Francisco$140
- 42Anish PatelLos Angeles$139
- 43Sylvia SooRiverside$138
- 44Adam RizviRiverside$130
- 45John GreeneSan Francisco$121
- 46Imad KhanOrange$118
- 47Toan DangFresno$116
- 48Alok SahgalPalm Springs$112
- 49Zachary ThrelkeldStanford$102
- 50Ahmad Riad RamadanOrange$88
- 51Leonid GroysmanFountain Valley$77
- 52Karen HirschStanford$75
- 53Sahar OsmanRiverside$71
- 54Jeffrey VittSacramento$56
- 55Dylan AlegriaCarmichael$52
- 56Manuel Buitrago BlancoLos Angeles$52
- 57Conrad ManningRiverside$44
- 58Saad YazdaniSacramento$42
- 59Kassi KronfeldTorrance$39
- 60Cyrus DasturOrange$34