Clinical Pathology/Laboratory Medicine in North Carolina
14 providers, $13,549 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 pathology/laboratory medicine clinicians in North Carolina
Across 6 clinical pathology/laboratory medicine clinicians in North Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $612,692 in total — an average of $102,115 each, of which $102,115 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
- 1Ruth WaltersChapel Hill$5,773
- 2Mark BrecherBurlington$5,000
- 3John JennetteChapel Hill$1,175
- 4Steven MannAsheville$495
- 5Keith VolmarChapel Hill$306
- 6David KaufmanChapel Hill$141
- 7Cynthia GardnerChapel Hill$139
- 8Harsharan SinghChapel Hill$127
- 9Volker NickeleitChapel Hill$127
- 10Maureen BauerDurham$119
- 11Margaret GulleyChapel Hill$75
- 12Scott SmithChapel Hill$42
- 13Alicia CarterChapel Hill$30
- 14Michael GoodmanChapel Hill$0