Critical Care Medicine in New Mexico
32 providers, $66,885 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $210.
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 New Mexico
Across 25 critical care medicine clinicians in New Mexico who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $690,325 in total — an average of $27,613 each, of which $27,606 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
- 1Akshu BalwanFarmington$46,577
- 2Jeffrey MazerAlbuquerque$9,963
- 3Staci LogueAlbuquerque$1,815
- 4Denise GonzalesAlbuquerque$1,486
- 5Tyler ShackelfordAlbuquerque$1,072
- 6Lucie GriffinAlbuquerque$746
- 7Nathan NielsenAlbuquerque$720
- 8Michel BoivinAlbuquerque$662
- 9Jennifer VergeerAlbuquerque$609
- 10Ashley LongAlbuquerque$447
- 11Akanksha VermaAlbuquerque$356
- 12Vanessa KitzisSanta Fe$330
- 13Jennifer WichmanAlbuquerque$231
- 14Harold GroffAlbuquerque$219
- 15Muhammad Ibrar IslamAlbuquerque$214
- 16Jessica Rodriguez-MinetteAlbuquerque$210
- 17Todd DettmerAlbuquerque$196
- 18Erik KraaiAlbuquerque$160
- 19Joseph FreemanAlbuquerque$140
- 20Sara LuceroAlbuquerque$122
- 21Robin BushAlbuquerque$119
- 22Keely WellsAlbuquerque$88
- 23Jolynn AllenLas Cruces$75
- 24Susanna GonzalesAlbuquerque$67
- 25Jenifer SmyerDeming$55
- 26Shozab AhmedAlbuquerque$47
- 27Stefani MotkarAlbuquerque$41
- 28Patricia HoganFarmington$34
- 29Ahmed MalkawiAlbuquerque$24
- 30Michael PatzFarmington$20
- 31Kellie ArvisoAlbuquerque$20
- 32Ahmad ItaniAlbuquerque$19