Corneal and Contact Management in Kentucky
8 providers, $873,421 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 corneal and contact management clinicians in Kentucky
Across 4 corneal and contact management clinicians in Kentucky who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $106,093 in total — an average of $26,523 each, of which $26,523 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
- 1Ian GaddieLouisville$856,533
- 2Laura BassettLouisville$6,211
- 3John MackeyLexington$3,201
- 4Bruce GaddieLouisville$2,796
- 5Donald GossomLouisville$2,370
- 6Paula Hernandez HooverFrankfort$2,080
- 7Curtis MyersBerea$193
- 8Sharon ThompsonLouisville$36