Plastic Surgery within the Head & Neck in California
119 providers, $137,413,193 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $646.
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 plastic surgery within the head & neck clinicians in California
Across 48 plastic surgery within the head & neck clinicians in California who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $10,049,674 in total — an average of $209,368 each, of which $201,710 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
- 1William BinderBeverly Hills$136,444,658
- 2Jivianne LeeSanta Monica$324,365
- 3John JosephEncino$251,669
- 4Rajesh ChopraBeverly Hills$74,994
- 5Ronald KochMountain View$36,809
- 6Rahul SethWalnut Creek$31,745
- 7Yarah HaidarOrange$30,575
- 8Amar GuptaRiverside$25,908
- 9Donald YooBeverly Hills$11,609
- 10Christopher ZoumalanBeverly Hills$10,779
- 11Donald CarterMerced$10,749
- 12Richard GangnesSan Clemente$9,204
- 13Ronald RubensteinSan Leandro$9,072
- 14Steven CohenSan Diego$7,682
- 15Gabriel GabarainRiverside$7,518
- 16Terry ShibuyaAnaheim$6,961
- 17Sassan AlaviSan Diego$6,313
- 18Michael KimLos Alamitos$5,956
- 19Jon Mallen-St ClairLos Angeles$5,533
- 20Craig IngberLos Angeles$5,329
- 21Mark SwansonOrange$4,934
- 22Anna CosteloeSan Francisco$4,897
- 23Jason DiamondLos Angeles$4,200
- 24David KeschnerAnaheim$4,017
- 25Andrew BermanBeverly Hills$3,645
- 26Bernard WeinstockLompoc$3,164
- 27Warren LineBurbank$3,041
- 28Terry PerkinsSanta Barbara$2,965
- 29Steven SloanSan Francisco$2,600
- 30Prem TripathiAlamo$2,578
- 31Scott HongSanta Clara$2,535
- 32Fadi ChahinBeverly Hills$2,429
- 33Krupal PatelDuarte$2,385
- 34Sarah AkkinaStanford$2,372
- 35Sepehr ShabaniDuarte$2,229
- 36Nancy WangFremont$2,092
- 37Marc WeissWoodland Hills$2,053
- 38Joseph Dinglasan SrDiamond Bar$2,036
- 39Meir HershcovitchWest Hills$2,030
- 40Mona SheteBakersfield$1,916
- 41Tania BenjaminCastro Valley$1,861
- 42Nicholas DewyerSan Francisco$1,823
- 43Babak LarianBeverly Hills$1,775
- 44John LimLos Angeles$1,769
- 45Gary FeinbergRiverside$1,741
- 46Cong RanSanta Monica$1,729
- 47Randal SchoemanAnaheim$1,703
- 48Shoab SiddiqueSacramento$1,654
- 49Dana PetersenSan Francisco$1,634
- 50Benjamin WallineLos Angeles$1,514
- 51Ernest RobinsonAliso Viejo$1,195
- 52Adrian HouseMenlo Park$1,145
- 53Dennis CrockettMission Viejo$1,103
- 54Gary BellackLos Angeles$1,056
- 55John RyanSan Jose$925
- 56Yohanan KimRiverside$842
- 57Yuro BerkovicBurbank$842
- 58Francis PalmerBeverly Hills$797
- 59Brian KimAnaheim$659
- 60Jason HamiltonLos Angeles$646