Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology in Rhode Island
13 providers, $111,100 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 clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in Rhode Island
Across 10 clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in Rhode Island who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,680,029 in total — an average of $168,003 each, of which $168,003 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
- 1Michael WuEast Providence$18,391
- 2Daniel PhilbinProvidence$14,897
- 3David ShimProvidence$14,392
- 4Xiaoxiao QianProvidence$12,972
- 5Malcolm KirkWoonsocket$11,129
- 6John RodriguezLincoln$8,534
- 7Arnoldas GiedrimasProvidence$7,232
- 8Carlos CuelloProvidence$7,133
- 9Jerome KalifaProvidence$5,732
- 10Estelle TorbeyEast Providence$5,157
- 11Ramin DavoudiMiddletown$4,012
- 12Rupa BalaProvidence$1,467
- 13Cao Thach TranEast Providence$50