Critical Care Medicine in Alabama
73 providers, $603,521 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $297.
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 critical care medicine clinicians in Alabama
Across 54 critical care medicine clinicians in Alabama who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,182,393 in total — an average of $40,415 each, of which $40,385 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
- 1James WellsBirmingham$222,990
- 2Mark DransfieldBirmingham$160,092
- 3George SolomonBirmingham$112,677
- 4Tracy LuckhardtBirmingham$28,393
- 5Keith WilleBirmingham$9,289
- 6Victor ThannickalBirmingham$7,839
- 7Kristy BarrentineDaphne$6,365
- 8Vipul ShahBirmingham$5,716
- 9Samuel McElweeBirmingham$4,571
- 10Jacob DunnamMobile$4,482
- 11Nicole SchreinerBirmingham$3,759
- 12David LafonBirmingham$3,526
- 13Shilpa GaddeMobile$3,206
- 14Dhaval RavalBirmingham$2,831
- 15Christian Balabanoff AcostaBirmingham$2,690
- 16Kerri BallyGadsden$2,420
- 17Kelly WilliamsMontgomery$2,236
- 18Amanda AllenBirmingham$2,110
- 19Kalyan PrudhviBirmingham$1,690
- 20Jennifer HarrisonAnniston$1,409
- 21Rochelle Thompson KolawoleOpelika$1,304
- 22Amanda HopkinsVestavia$1,292
- 23Christopher RoneyBirmingham$1,291
- 24Chao HeBirmingham$1,212
- 25Emily KingBirmingham$893
- 26Eve CoxBirmingham$805
- 27Lauren DaleyBirmingham$720
- 28Nathaniel VanhornMobile$706
- 29Faris Al-FarisGadsden$593
- 30Alison BakerHuntsville$495
- 31Michael WilsonMobile$442
- 32Rebecca SmithBirmingham$428
- 33Sarah RobertsMobile$359
- 34Matthew SorensenMontgomery$337
- 35Tarun KukkadapuHuntsville$335
- 36Annamalai NadarajanHoover$325
- 37Thomas KaleekalBirmingham$297
- 38Aaron PailleMobile$279
- 39Amit GaggarBirmingham$267
- 40David ChodosHuntsville$206
- 41Gina DelgadoHuntsville$197
- 42Lori Hicks-GlaznerBirmingham$182
- 43Brandy BeckhamMobile$177
- 44Andrew BarkerBirmingham$170
- 45Sarah RobisonBirmingham$166
- 46Moheb Ashraf Emeel GoharBirmingham$148
- 47Shonda BrandHazel Green$148
- 48Jussi NiiranenHuntsville$146
- 49Avinash AdigaHuntsville$125
- 50James JohnsonBirmingham$121
- 51Fnu AnshulDothan$119
- 52Ashley BoothMobile$102
- 53Taylor WachsOpelika$92
- 54Sonia JohnBirmingham$82
- 55Joseph BarneyBirmingham$73
- 56Prithvi KukkadapuHuntsville$71
- 57Dylan NguyenBirmingham$64
- 58Mark SmithCordova$57
- 59Sua PunBirmingham$41
- 60Kiyoshi ScissumHuntsville$39