Dentist in Georgia
1,532 providers, $4,333,802 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $249.
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 dentist clinicians in Georgia
Across 2 dentist clinicians in Georgia who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $26,867 in total — an average of $13,434 each, of which $13,434 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
- 1Ronald GoldsteinAtlanta$1,867,663
- 2Maurice SalamaAtlanta$468,658
- 3Joseph Bernier-RodriguezFt Gordon$232,927
- 4Robert WalinchusSavannah$145,509
- 5David ReznikAtlanta$106,012
- 6David GarberAtlanta$104,403
- 7Hugh FlaxAtlanta$102,108
- 8Christian JohnsonSmyrna$49,476
- 9Todd SchoenbaumAugusta$41,591
- 10Bernee DunsonAtlanta$31,238
- 11Edmond FranklinCollege Park$21,645
- 12Sangita VenkateshCumming$17,751
- 13Paul MannMacon$16,563
- 14Reid PoppleSnellville$13,765
- 15Troy SchulmanDunwoody$13,177
- 16Ryan FulchiSavannah$12,715
- 17Matthew KikuchiAugusta$12,481
- 18Sengsouriya AnanthasaneCumming$11,690
- 19Meredith DempseyAugusta$10,528
- 20Steven ArringtonHamilton$10,327
- 21Carl HarmanSavannah$9,177
- 22Stephanie SweeneySavannah$9,172
- 23Hiram WilsonAcworth$8,478
- 24Bryant BarrowsMc Rae$8,258
- 25Kyle HollisClaxton$8,258
- 26David AveryAugusta$8,030
- 27Mark SongerCalhoun$7,606
- 28Rishi KapurLilburn$7,390
- 29Jason AmesCumming$7,301
- 30Trushar PatelAtlanta$7,197
- 31Wendell CampbellAtlanta$7,167
- 32William FinkWoodstock$7,112
- 33Robyn McCallaMarietta$6,986
- 34Chen ChenPeachtree Corners$6,852
- 35Zachary PowellCumming$6,825
- 36Dimitrios ArfanakisDouglasville$6,820
- 37Michael ThomasMarietta$6,452
- 38Azadeh EsfandiariniaSandy Springs$6,117
- 39Maha El-SayedAtlanta$6,111
- 40Robin ReichSmyrna$6,017
- 41van HaywoodAugusta$5,961
- 42Hugh SmaltzNewnan$5,871
- 43Joseph ThorntonSnellville$5,790
- 44Abby RaymondFort Benning$5,753
- 45Warren IngeCovington$5,729
- 46Helen SempiraAtlanta$5,654
- 47Matthew AlvarezFayetteville$5,486
- 48Marianna KovitchMarietta$5,470
- 49Nalini KatariaRoswell$5,281
- 50Michael MansouriLawrenceville$5,221
- 51Jorge Carlos GriswoldDecatur$5,221
- 52Stacey ReichSmyrna$5,158
- 53Alexandra ShehataAtlanta$5,100
- 54Ashish PatelMarietta$5,055
- 55Benjamin DeshetlerMarietta$4,847
- 56Abby DewSavannah$4,827
- 57Nicholas SasserBrunswick$4,646
- 58Nooredin NuraniDacula$4,548
- 59Nicholas KirkpatrickCanton$4,474
- 60Melissa JordanGrovetown$4,403