Otolaryngology/Facial Plastic Surgery in California
102 providers, $432,505 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $1,073.
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 otolaryngology/facial plastic surgery clinicians in California
Across 58 otolaryngology/facial plastic surgery clinicians in California who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $9,379,191 in total — an average of $161,710 each, of which $161,710 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
- 1Sarmela SunderLancaster$85,001
- 2Vasu DiviStanford$50,529
- 3Jen ChowArcadia$26,204
- 4Ryan CasserlyMonterey$23,095
- 5Ritvik MehtaCarlsbad$13,364
- 6Alexis FurzeNewport Beach$12,060
- 7Jahangir SharifiLos Angeles$12,031
- 8Henry NguyenRancho Cucamonga$10,732
- 9Paul NassifBeverly Hills$10,395
- 10Babak AzizzadehBeverly Hills$9,592
- 11Arash MoradzadehBeverly Hills$9,495
- 12Lisa OrloffStanford$9,468
- 13David AlessiBeverly Hills$9,442
- 14Matthew MingroneSan Francisco$9,295
- 15Reginald RicePlacerville$7,574
- 16Satish VadapalliValencia$7,372
- 17Kiersten Riedlerla Jolla$7,077
- 18Karan DhirBeverly Hills$6,960
- 19J SchnitmanBeverly Hills$6,678
- 20Clifford AmoilsValencia$6,356
- 21Deborshi RoyRancho Cucamonga$6,006
- 22Natee PoopatUpland$5,557
- 23Raj DedhiaSan Francisco$5,024
- 24Stephen FinkBeverly Hills$4,469
- 25Mauro RuffySan Jose$4,279
- 26Timothy KelleyNewport Beach$3,970
- 27George BorisCulver City$3,444
- 28Floyd HolsingerStanford$3,256
- 29Behrad AynehchiCulver City$3,050
- 30Todd RobertsMurrieta$2,938
- 31Payman SimoniBeverly Hills$2,781
- 32David ShamouelianBeverly Hills$2,722
- 33Umang MehtaAtherton$2,715
- 34Maansi DoshiTurlock$2,711
- 35Andrey FinegershStanford$2,527
- 36Josephine NguyenStockton$2,405
- 37Angie SongLompoc$2,254
- 38Amir KaramSan Diego$1,972
- 39Joseph RomeoTurlock$1,881
- 40Jacob WesterLos Angeles$1,756
- 41Mario YcoEncinitas$1,590
- 42Jacob SedghLos Angeles$1,499
- 43Robert GrayOakland$1,487
- 44Alan FisherArcadia$1,393
- 45Grace WuSan Francisco$1,330
- 46William CohenOrange$1,198
- 47Hayward EubanksHawthorne$1,169
- 48Kimberly LeeLos Angeles$1,115
- 49Daniel DuboseSonora$1,094
- 50Shounan YaoSan Gabriel$1,091
- 51Larry GambrellSebastopol$1,073
- 52Lorenzo BrownInglewood$1,065
- 53Steven DainesNewport Beach$1,052
- 54Hao DinhGarden Grove$972
- 55David KienerRoseville$967
- 56Anwuli AnyahModesto$888
- 57Evan RansomGreenbrae$886
- 58Parmis PebdaniLancaster$881
- 59Benjamin RobertsMurrieta$856
- 60Kristina TansavatdiWestlake Village$828