Orofacial Pain in California
16 providers, $391,174 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 orofacial pain clinicians in California
Across 6 orofacial pain clinicians in California who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $716,076 in total — an average of $119,346 each, of which $105,879 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
- 1Brigitte LovellOjai$289,972
- 2Ali MakkiIrvine$85,733
- 3Rich HirschingerBeverly Hills$3,992
- 4Katayoun OmraniLos Angeles$3,591
- 5Victoria WexleyLos Angeles$2,715
- 6Rashpal DeolSan Ramon$1,772
- 7Alan NewmanLos Angeles$1,369
- 8Sherwin ArmanLos Angeles$470
- 9Matthew HashimotoFoster City$385
- 10Savitha SiddappaThousand Oaks$301
- 11Mohammad KhalifehLos Angeles$258
- 12Benjamin KrumanWalnut Creek$169
- 13Vicky ChenRiverside$146
- 14Suzan SabaghLos Angeles$144
- 15Matthew SimonSan Diego$125
- 16Jeffrey WeberLos Angeles$32