Cardiovascular Disease in Kentucky
258 providers, $3,040,153 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $2,503.
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 cardiovascular disease clinicians in Kentucky
Across 216 cardiovascular disease clinicians in Kentucky who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $31,761,402 in total — an average of $147,044 each, of which $143,296 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
- 1Amir PirachaLouisville$530,140
- 2Dinesh KalraLouisville$315,541
- 3William SkinnerLexington$311,781
- 4Prabodh MehtaElizabethtown$132,797
- 5John HarrisLouisville$128,763
- 6David MoliternoLexington$115,298
- 7Rohan SamsonLouisville$93,651
- 8Srinivasa AppakonduHazard$90,671
- 9Muhammad AkbarBowling Green$84,179
- 10Jeffrey ReichardFlorence$64,701
- 11Madhura MylaOwensboro$58,377
- 12Bradley McElroyPaducah$58,184
- 13Andrew LeventhalLexington$43,125
- 14Vipul PanchalLouisville$38,791
- 15Raul HerediaFrankfort$33,859
- 16Yazan DaaboulCynthiana$32,877
- 17David SihauFrankfort$30,679
- 18Steven RaibleLouisville$30,050
- 19Gayl ReaderGreenville$26,944
- 20John HodgsonMurray$25,421
- 21Kishor VoraOwensboro$21,233
- 22John GurleyLexington$21,081
- 23Chandhiran RangaswamyLouisville$19,499
- 24Stephen SchutzmanEdgewood$16,787
- 25Joseph LashLouisville$16,443
- 26Shanker ChandiramaniLouisville$15,822
- 27Suresh SharmaLexington$14,928
- 28Pradeep SinghLouisville$14,590
- 29Ahmad AbuarqoubMorehead$14,355
- 30James CragerLexington$11,580
- 31Craig TuckerLouisville$10,680
- 32Robert StrickmeyerFlorence$10,016
- 33Shahab GhafghaziLouisville$9,832
- 34Kevin MillerEdgewood$9,525
- 35Kevin ScullyLexington$8,801
- 36Erik SchneibelLouisville$8,548
- 37Michael McKinneySomerset$8,417
- 38Nathan KustererLexington$8,289
- 39Nathaniel DittoeCovington$8,131
- 40Darek SanfordNewport$8,070
- 41Manish SharmaLouisville$7,965
- 42Amit RoutLouisville$7,821
- 43Thomas TrimburLouisville$7,746
- 44Adnan SultanMadisonville$7,741
- 45Steven HeatherlyMadisonville$7,569
- 46Rodney HandshoePikeville$7,345
- 47Roy KiriakosLouisville$7,226
- 48Suresh RekhrajLouisville$7,170
- 49John HoltElizabethtown$7,109
- 50Joseph ValayamElizabethtown$7,096
- 51Darryl DiasEdgewood$6,851
- 52Jerry WhiteAshland$6,798
- 53Beth BryantBowling Green$6,786
- 54Zakare SalifuGlasgow$6,649
- 55Robert ToltzisNewport$6,602
- 56Charles RhodesAshland$6,543
- 57Venkata ReddyGlasgow$6,472
- 58Michele FridayRussell$6,470
- 59John LoughranLouisville$6,278
- 60Eric LohmanMaysville$6,006