Adult Medicine in New Mexico
9 providers, $1,424 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 adult medicine clinicians in New Mexico
Across 5 adult medicine clinicians in New Mexico who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $296,006 in total — an average of $59,201 each, of which $57,570 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
- 1David LeechAlbuquerque$485
- 2Bipin Jot BaggaAlbuquerque$332
- 3Katharine PickettAlbuquerque$251
- 4Teresa PrattSanta Fe$172
- 5Rebekah VallejosAlbuquerque$115
- 6Phillip HertzmanLos Alamos$37
- 7Joseph OumaAlbuquerque$15
- 8Lucia CiesSanta Fe$11
- 9Rebecca ChavezAlbuquerque$6