Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology in Oklahoma
8 providers, $154,956 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 Oklahoma
Across 7 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology clinicians in Oklahoma who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $815,293 in total — an average of $116,470 each, of which $116,470 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
- 1Luke CunninghamOklahoma City$69,641
- 2Steven StroudTulsa$39,213
- 3Luis Meggo QuirozTulsa$18,606
- 4Ralph EnsleyTulsa$11,142
- 5John VannTulsa$9,025
- 6Nina WilliamsTulsa$4,600
- 7Tarun DasariOklahoma City$2,013
- 8Carol KepfordOklahoma City$716