Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology in Washington
20 providers, $480,842 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $3,028.
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 Washington
Across 19 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology clinicians in Washington who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,505,965 in total — an average of $79,261 each, of which $79,221 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
- 1Wayne LevySeattle$275,410
- 2David Bragin-SanchezSpokane$83,036
- 3David ZhangTacoma$35,227
- 4Deirdre MooneySpokane$25,950
- 5John MignoneSeattle$18,581
- 6Preethi PirlamarlaSeattle$14,154
- 7James MuddSpokane$6,046
- 8Salpy PamboukianSeattle$4,529
- 9Robert ScottSpokane$4,094
- 10Pulla ReddySilverdale$3,028
- 11James ZhangSeattle$2,901
- 12April Stempien OteroSeattle$1,965
- 13Sunu ThomasSeattle$1,919
- 14Myung ParkTacoma$1,541
- 15Richard ChengSeattle$759
- 16Elina MinamiSeattle$698
- 17Daniel FishbeinSeattle$600
- 18Kevin ObrienSeattle$222
- 19Shin LinSeattle$182
- 20Todd DardasSeattle$0