Anatomic Pathology in Washington
19 providers, $425,716 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 anatomic pathology clinicians in Washington
Across 14 anatomic pathology clinicians in Washington who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,117,886 in total — an average of $151,278 each, of which $151,278 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
- 1Monica DebacaSeattle$322,586
- 2Behzad NajafianSeattle$82,328
- 3Michael HaffnerSeattle$13,651
- 4Kathryn RizzoSpokane Valley$3,509
- 5Cheung ChhiengSeattle$1,699
- 6Ryan FortnaBellingham$472
- 7Geraldine PeterdyLiberty Lake$334
- 8Aashiyana KoreishiSeattle$322
- 9Paul EdmonsonSeattle$297
- 10Haodong XuSeattle$132
- 11Shreeram AkileshSeattle$127
- 12Rebeca AlvarezSeattle$90
- 13Tawny HungPuyallup$43
- 14Jey-Hsin ChenSeattle$33
- 15Patrick CiminoSeattle$25
- 16Arthur VogelLynnwood$19
- 17David MyersonSeattle$19
- 18Lisa KochBellingham$18
- 19Benjamin YanVancouver$14