Nutrition in California
8 providers, $500 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 nutrition clinicians in California
Across 2 nutrition clinicians in California who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $271,271 in total — an average of $135,635 each, of which $113,336 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
- 1Andrew KeithWest Covina$103
- 2Wayne HodgesLancaster$86
- 3Jeffrey Merskydel Mar$63
- 4Tim RamirezCosta Mesa$59
- 5Julie BeckTehachapi$55
- 6Albert KahnSan Jose$51
- 7Lien DiepLos Angeles$51
- 8Darren SiuSan Jose$32