Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology in Alabama
8 providers, $579,553 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 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology clinicians in Alabama
Across 8 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology clinicians in Alabama who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,065,302 in total — an average of $133,163 each, of which $132,780 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
- 1Kenneth BurnhamMobile$445,713
- 2Kaushik JainHuntsville$80,188
- 3David SmullDecatur$20,010
- 4Luanda GrazetteMobile$19,164
- 5Indranee RajapreyarBirmingham$5,770
- 6Ayman Haj AsaadBirmingham$5,159
- 7Heriberto Matos SantanaBirmingham$2,727
- 8Jose TallajBirmingham$821