Colon & Rectal Surgery in Delaware
8 providers, $30,737 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 colon & rectal surgery clinicians in Delaware
Across 7 colon & rectal surgery clinicians in Delaware who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $893,025 in total — an average of $127,575 each, of which $127,575 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
- 1David PalangeNewark$18,029
- 2Frederick DenstmanNewark$3,799
- 3Assar RatherDover$3,558
- 4Carey NathanNewark$2,891
- 5Shanthi ShakamuriNewark$1,375
- 6Sachin VaidNewark$563
- 7Michele ThomasLewes$338
- 8Joseph DamicoNewark$184