Neuropathology in California
11 providers, $11,751 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 neuropathology clinicians in California
Across 5 neuropathology clinicians in California who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $271,454 in total — an average of $54,291 each, of which $54,291 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
- 1Massimo D ApuzzoDuarte$10,623
- 2Harry VintersLos Angeles$468
- 3Samuel FrenchTorrance$279
- 4Jacqueline BenjaminLos Angeles$125
- 5Ronald KimLong Beach$87
- 6Andrew BollenSan Francisco$68
- 7Edward PloweyStanford$35
- 8David SolomonStanford$25
- 9Marcia CornfordTorrance$21
- 10Merryl TerrySan Francisco$18
- 11Joanna PhillipsSan Francisco$0