Dermatopathology in North Carolina
13 providers, $169,853 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
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 dermatopathology clinicians in North Carolina
Across 11 dermatopathology clinicians in North Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $6,675,758 in total — an average of $606,887 each, of which $606,608 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
- 1Jonathan YaoGreensboro$105,224
- 2Rita Pichardo GeisingerWinston Salem$30,401
- 3Paul KostuchenkoWinston Salem$13,275
- 4Scott McClellanNew Bern$6,882
- 5Jonathan MilesChapel Hill$5,432
- 6Jennifer NguyenCharlotte$3,185
- 7David GuillenGastonia$1,784
- 8John PapalasGreenville$1,320
- 9Quinn ThibodeauxHigh Point$1,085
- 10Daniel ZedekChapel Hill$890
- 11Earl GrossMorehead City$326
- 12Melissa MunozGreensboro$25
- 13Kapil GuptaConcord$25