Anesthesiology in AE
11 providers, $1,619 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 anesthesiology clinicians in AE
Across 4 anesthesiology clinicians in AE who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $112,811 in total — an average of $28,203 each, of which $28,203 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
- 1Jason MerrellApo$691
- 2Gregory DunnApo$458
- 3Brittany MeyersApo$131
- 4Bryan RayApo$113
- 5Tyson HawkleyApo$69
- 6Tobiah ElbertApo$67
- 7Linda HongApo$51
- 8Michael AnconaFpo$20
- 9James DiciccoApo$20
- 10Richard AlexanderApo$0
- 11Scott KaserApo$0