Community Health in Georgia
18 providers, $13,878 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 community health clinicians in Georgia
Across 3 community health clinicians in Georgia who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $28,830 in total — an average of $9,610 each, of which $9,610 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
- 1Melissa DowdAthens$8,011
- 2April WashingtonMoultrie$2,273
- 3Emma WalkerBainbridge$1,356
- 4Eleanor QuincySavannah$973
- 5Kimberly ClarkbrakeMidville$288
- 6Lauren TiernanAugusta$188
- 7Nissa HaugenDalton$167
- 8Marguerite LawrenColumbus$103
- 9Abigail EdwardsAtlanta$101
- 10Joshua KiesSavannah$94
- 11Rene GuildBlue Ridge$90
- 12Tania JohnsonSavannah$88
- 13Tiffiny DucheneHinesville$71
- 14Mariama DialloAtlanta$23
- 15Demetrial ChandlerHephzibah$18
- 16Shirlee JohnsonLouisville$17
- 17Annette HarkinsGainesville$13
- 18Brittany MitchellSpringfield$5