Cornea and External Diseases Specialist in North Carolina
9 providers, $201,175 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 North Carolina
Across 8 cornea and external diseases specialist clinicians in North Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $714,337 in total — an average of $89,292 each, of which $89,292 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
- 1Victor Perez QuinonesDurham$178,930
- 2Lloyd WilliamsDurham$7,008
- 3Adam BennettRaleigh$5,173
- 4Yun Bo TianDurham$4,488
- 5Sara SpyrisWinston Salem$2,069
- 6Brent HoffmanRaleigh$1,563
- 7Anthony TangWilmington$1,197
- 8Michelle KimDurham$424
- 9Patricia SmithRaleigh$323