Cornea and External Diseases Specialist in Georgia
9 providers, $548,585 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 cornea and external diseases specialist clinicians in Georgia
Across 9 cornea and external diseases specialist clinicians in Georgia who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,769,885 in total — an average of $196,654 each, of which $196,654 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
- 1William LeeAtlanta$501,327
- 2Joseph ChristenburyAtlanta$31,069
- 3Soroosh BehshadAtlanta$7,372
- 4Evan LoftAtlanta$2,441
- 5Amy EstesAugusta$2,346
- 6Amit BajajAtlanta$1,437
- 7Abigail KalishMarietta$1,407
- 8Barbara SmithMarietta$633
- 9Colton McCoyAtlanta$553