Clinical Nurse Specialist in Rhode Island
8 providers, $39,857 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 nurse specialist clinicians in Rhode Island
Across 1 clinical nurse specialist clinicians in Rhode Island who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $8,494 in total — an average of $8,494 each, of which $8,494 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
- 1Nicole AllisonProvidence$14,158
- 2Irene DematteoWarwick$9,014
- 3Brian HickeyWarwick$8,266
- 4Patricia ReposaWarwick$7,378
- 5Robert HamelEast Greenwich$552
- 6Sharon MurrayProvidence$456
- 7Sally HarrisonProvidence$17
- 8Ann Back PriceProvidence$15