Acute Care in Alaska
19 providers, $9,824 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 acute care clinicians in Alaska
Across 14 acute care clinicians in Alaska who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $652,879 in total — an average of $46,634 each, of which $46,634 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
- 1Leah HaydenAnchorage$2,584
- 2Lorie PettyAnchorage$1,999
- 3Annie AbelesWasilla$1,525
- 4Marcia MankinSoldotna$1,016
- 5Micah RobertAnchorage$667
- 6Jorin CaltAnchorage$335
- 7Sarah MorehouseAnchorage$292
- 8Lisa PageAnchorage$261
- 9Carol SantWasilla$256
- 10Kimberly RevelsAnchorage$253
- 11Kelly St JohnAnchorage$159
- 12Geoffrey MittelsteadtAnchorage$127
- 13Christina SparksFairbanks$110
- 14Claudia SmithAnchorage$81
- 15Cassandra CarrellJuneau$51
- 16Rosemary TimmermanAnchorage$42
- 17Katie MontanoPalmer$35
- 18Joel ReitzAnchorage$19
- 19Samantha FilElmendorf Afb$12