NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Legal Medicine in California

112 NPPES records list legal medicine with a practice address in California, 0.3 per 100,000 residents, the 9th highest rate of 46. Beverly Hills and Los Angeles have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the California license search. Page 3 of 3.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 173000000X · method

Written with AI tools from the named public files; every figure is computed from those files (how it is made).

Beverly Hills has the most, 6

  1. Beverly Hills6
  2. Los Angeles6
  3. San Francisco5
  4. Encino4
  5. Salinas4

Legal Medicine records in California

  1. Manohar Sukumar, JD, MPHSanta Ana, CA 927011538694088
  2. Patrick Sutton, M.D.Pasadena, CA 911051710953245
  3. Amir Tahbaz, M.D.Los Angeles, CA 900891760797740
  4. John Tang, M.D.San Francisco, CA 941331902916257
  5. Caroline Tanner, M.D., PH.D.Sunnyvale, CA 940851043256035
  6. Fouad Tawadrous, M.D.Upland, CA 917861013940543
  7. Ruth Topacio, M.D.Bellflower, CA 907061760420962
  8. Carmelita Uy, M.D.Chula Vista, CA 919101154431484
  9. Gary Vandenberg, MDLa Jolla, CA 920371912122680
  10. Mercedes Villano, M.D.Menifee, CA 925841902976988
  11. Yan Wang, M.D.Gold River, CA 956701437350436
  12. Judith Willis, M.D.Santa Barbara, CA 931111366581928

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 173000000X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

California ranks 9 of 46 per resident

  1. Florida0.3
  2. New Jersey0.3
  3. Mississippi0.3
  4. California0.3
  5. New Mexico0.3
  6. Alabama0.3
  7. 50 states and D.C.0.2

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 173000000X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

42.0% of these records appear in a Medicare file, against 37.7% nationally

A Medicare file here is Part D prescribing (2024), a MIPS score (2023), an Open Payments record (2024) or Medicare group billing (CMS Doctors and Clinicians). A record outside them may still see patients: these files cover Medicare only.

  1. California42.0%
  2. United States37.7%

Legal Medicine records in California, measured

  • In a Medicare file47 of 112 · 42.0% here, 37.7% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file23 · 20.5% here, 19.2% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more96 · 85.7% here, 77.1% nationally
  • Median graduation year1984 · the 23 records with a school on file

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 173000000X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

112 NPPES records list legal medicine (173000000X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in California: 0.3 per 100,000 residents against 0.2 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Beverly Hills has 6 of them (5%).

A record is a registration a provider made and keeps up to date: it shows neither that the provider is licensed nor that they still practice there. The state's own license search is the check.

States with a similar number

  1. New York112
  2. Florida76
  3. Pennsylvania34
  4. Illinois30

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. Alabama0.3
  2. New Jersey0.3
  3. Washington0.2
  4. Louisiana0.2

The largest states

  1. New York112
  2. Florida76
  3. Pennsylvania34
  4. Illinois30
  5. Maryland30

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov); NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy; 2023 Census population estimates. A registry record is not a license.

Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of Aug 9, 2026.