Otolaryngic Allergy in California
10 providers, $841,390 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 otolaryngic allergy clinicians in California
Across 7 otolaryngic allergy clinicians in California who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,192,155 in total — an average of $170,308 each, of which $170,308 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
- 1Naveen BhandarkarOrange$638,961
- 2Akira IshiyamaLos Angeles$104,870
- 3Edward KuanOrange$89,810
- 4Nathalia VelasquezFremont$3,573
- 5Mary DereberyLos Angeles$2,727
- 6David LiuStanford$433
- 7Donald BurtMorgan Hill$417
- 8Ivor EmanuelSan Francisco$253
- 9Quoc NguyenGarden Grove$206
- 10Sidney FishmanNewport Beach$140