Spinal Cord Injury Medicine in California
17 providers, $26,028 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 spinal cord injury medicine clinicians in California
Across 7 spinal cord injury medicine clinicians in California who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,323,451 in total — an average of $189,064 each, of which $181,690 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
- 1Edward LeroyFresno$12,177
- 2Valerie Chavez-AromOrange$5,122
- 3Christopher BoudakianLos Angeles$3,824
- 4Ramin HazanyInglewood$2,018
- 5Patricia NanceLong Beach$1,137
- 6Jeremy LouParamount$581
- 7Muhammad AkbarClovis$192
- 8Vernon LinLong Beach$189
- 9Inder PerkashStanford$153
- 10Shane StoneSacramento$141
- 11Roy SasakiPalo Alto$123
- 12Doug OtaPalo Alto$122
- 13Fahima NasarSan Diego$60
- 14Travis EdmistonDowney$57
- 15Kim leSacramento$54
- 16Akshat ShahSan Jose$51
- 17Robert SibleyLos Angeles$26