Corneal and Contact Management in Tennessee
21 providers, $31,191 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $629.
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 Tennessee
Across 10 corneal and contact management clinicians in Tennessee who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $247,129 in total — an average of $24,713 each, of which $24,713 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
- 1Kevin JohnsonNashville$10,077
- 2Yueren WangMemphis$5,424
- 3Kendall HarrisNashville$5,335
- 4Sarah ConnollyNashville$1,896
- 5Steven ShumGermantown$1,441
- 6Timothy SpicerMaryville$1,366
- 7Bryce BrownNashville$972
- 8Brad AltmanMount Juliet$942
- 9Robert CrossKnoxville$787
- 10Kenneth WeinbergMemphis$665
- 11Kristen PumphreyJonesborough$629
- 12Milind DesaiKnoxville$522
- 13Warwick DellHixson$274
- 14Cathy BraswellMemphis$220
- 15Lloyd TantumMaryville$131
- 16Milton SalomonNashville$121
- 17John LeeMemphis$118
- 18Lina DesaiKnoxville$107
- 19Jack PhillipsEl Paso$102
- 20Robert TurneyCrossville$46
- 21Kevin SchwarzMemphis$17