Blood Banking & Transfusion Medicine in Missouri
12 providers, $553,296 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 blood banking & transfusion medicine clinicians in Missouri
Across 8 blood banking & transfusion medicine clinicians in Missouri who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $86,960 in total — an average of $10,870 each, of which $10,870 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
- 1Jay MenitoveKansas City$463,928
- 2George DespotisSaint Louis$54,300
- 3Charles EbySaint Louis$30,756
- 4Chang LiuSaint Louis$2,205
- 5Brenda GrossmanSaint Louis$1,352
- 6Rhonda CookeSt. Louis$241
- 7Lisandro FortunySaint Louis$213
- 8Christine FujaSaint Louis$149
- 9Thomas SchneiderSaint Louis$49
- 10Emily CoberlySaint Louis$46
- 11Daniel WalkerColumbia$38
- 12Natalie MalvikSaint Louis$19