Dermatology in Alaska
22 providers, $70,633 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $635.
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 dermatology clinicians in Alaska
Across 12 dermatology clinicians in Alaska who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $4,072,283 in total — an average of $339,357 each, of which $332,393 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
- 1Robert MorelandAnchorage$17,978
- 2Michael MichenerAnchorage$14,327
- 3Jayne FortsonAnchorage$12,733
- 4Stephanie McLeishAnchorage$8,301
- 5Blake GallerWasilla$6,958
- 6Kimberly WonderlichFairbanks$1,917
- 7Courtney BagayokoAnchorage$1,836
- 8Kate KimesFt Wainwright$1,655
- 9Janine MillerAnchorage$1,050
- 10Roger ThurmondFairbanks$665
- 11Jacob DoddAnchorage$635
- 12John BocachicaJuneau$624
- 13Margretta OreillyAnchorage$559
- 14Fiona TeilborgAnchorage$335
- 15Katinna Rodriguez BaisiAnchorage$321
- 16Sahira FarooqJuneau$273
- 17McKay FrandsenFt Wainwright$232
- 18Jeffrey WeissWasilla$109
- 19Robert SorensenPalmer$71
- 20Hal WillardsonAnchorage$53
- 21Kristin EastmanSoldotna$0
- 22Mathew CannavaSoldotna$0