Adult Health in Kentucky
170 providers, $1,200,730 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $572.
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 adult health clinicians in Kentucky
Across 85 adult health clinicians in Kentucky who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $4,382,170 in total — an average of $51,555 each, of which $44,608 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
- 1Carrie Clifford-BennettGeorgetown$730,366
- 2Stephanie FlaspoehlerLouisville$174,144
- 3Kimberly VesselsBrandenburg$58,221
- 4Heidi GalloLouisville$15,112
- 5Amy BakerPaducah$14,184
- 6Joyce JohnsonElizabethtown$12,497
- 7Karen EastridgeLouisville$9,689
- 8Seon Hui BalistrereHopkinsville$8,366
- 9Barbara CarpenterLouisville$7,880
- 10Jennifer ThomasPaducah$7,363
- 11Deborah WelshPaducah$7,345
- 12Bianca WhitlowLexington$6,609
- 13Rebecca DaviesRichmond$5,872
- 14Loren GarzaLouisville$5,734
- 15Tara LykinsPaducah$4,399
- 16Kelly MikeLouisville$4,376
- 17Kelly TaylorLexington$4,372
- 18Mavis LowePikeville$4,140
- 19Linda DallPaducah$3,905
- 20Felicia GeronBardstown$3,846
- 21Donna HerndonRussell$3,729
- 22Christina ParsonsAshland$3,597
- 23Layla Al-ShamiLouisville$3,473
- 24Tara CrankAshland$3,029
- 25Amber ParkerSomerset$2,927
- 26Rhonda WelenkenProspect$2,604
- 27Brittany McWhorterLouisville$2,574
- 28Lauren MyrickBowling Green$2,522
- 29Lahoma PratherLouisville$2,275
- 30Rhonda BooneMurray$2,240
- 31Melissa AkerSomerset$2,212
- 32William NapierLouisville$2,208
- 33Barbara LemmonsLouisville$2,197
- 34Jennifer HowardAshland$2,170
- 35Rachel Keith-WeissLouisville$2,000
- 36Leslie DieckhoffLouisville$1,997
- 37Jodi WojcikLouisville$1,956
- 38Michael GordonBenton$1,925
- 39Lori WagnerLexington$1,907
- 40Mallory SmithLouisville$1,876
- 41Jennie BourneMurray$1,853
- 42Erika KeithleyLouisville$1,821
- 43Tammy HillRussell Springs$1,725
- 44Brittany HunterBenton$1,641
- 45Brigid BuckmanLouisville$1,592
- 46Vivianne GriffithsLouisville$1,565
- 47Carla BroderickLouisville$1,549
- 48Dedra HaydenLouisville$1,444
- 49Margaret KilgoreLouisville$1,389
- 50Anna StewartPaducah$1,377
- 51Pamela DaleCampton$1,309
- 52Robert JohnsonLouisville$1,300
- 53Mallory DoyleElizabethtown$1,248
- 54Michelle FrisbieLouisville$1,214
- 55Chanin HilandEddyville$1,204
- 56Sara CottrellFort Campbell$1,189
- 57Amanda HellmuellerLouisville$1,168
- 58Monica GravesLouisville$1,147
- 59Kristina ChristmasLouisville$1,091
- 60Michelle BaxterCrestwood$1,010