Orthopedic in California
14 providers, $4,774 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 orthopedic clinicians in California
Across 5 orthopedic clinicians in California who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $73,490 in total — an average of $14,698 each, of which $14,698 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
- 1Mark WardenburgIrvine$2,699
- 2Brian FullerPleasanton$1,214
- 3Philip RosenTarzana$344
- 4Thomas JohnsonWestlake Village$143
- 5Raul MarcoSun Valley$125
- 6Santiago Munoz BrionesSanta Barbara$50
- 7Christopher WendellTustin$48
- 8Alan NaimRedondo Beach$32
- 9Seyedamir SherafatRiverside$27
- 10John MooneyPlacerville$26
- 11Betty Claytonla Habra$22
- 12J Gregory ClarkFresno$19
- 13Marcus MorrisMission Viejo$13
- 14Karl KallmannFresno$11