Nuclear Cardiology in California
10 providers, $625,909 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 nuclear cardiology clinicians in California
Across 7 nuclear cardiology clinicians in California who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $12,104,211 in total — an average of $1,729,173 each, of which $1,718,753 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
- 1Ramin EbrahimiLos Angeles$542,227
- 2Teresa DanieleFresno$45,319
- 3Christopher OhSalinas$16,652
- 4Absalom HepnerMission Viejo$8,679
- 5Howard LewinLos Angeles$5,135
- 6Victor GabrielianArcadia$4,327
- 7Ankit RathodFresno$2,156
- 8Arjun SharmaSacramento$1,072
- 9Kusai AzizVisalia$326
- 10Thomas WattersSan Mateo$17