Clinical Nurse Specialist in Washington
8 providers, $4,698 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 Washington
Across 1 clinical nurse specialist clinicians in Washington who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $42,795 in total — an average of $42,795 each, of which $42,795 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
- 1Kara LiechtyVancouver$1,759
- 2Janine GundelEdmonds$1,648
- 3Emily VinsonSeattle$854
- 4Debra JuddSpokane$254
- 5Megan StimpsonSeattle$105
- 6Angela TurnerSeattle$36
- 7Andrea CampbellSeattle$21
- 8Patricia MurphyMountlake Terrace$21