Emergency Medicine in AE
14 providers, $4,399 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 emergency medicine clinicians in AE
Across 6 emergency medicine clinicians in AE who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $66,723 in total — an average of $11,120 each, of which $11,120 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
- 1Katarzyna HamptonApo$3,550
- 2Guillermo NavarroFpo$242
- 3Rebecca LucasApo$189
- 4Arianna MorenoApo$144
- 5Morgan WattsApo$79
- 6David HouraniApo$74
- 7Tara ZieberFpo$28
- 8Christopher LeonApo$27
- 9James HartlineApo$25
- 10Matthew MerrimanApo$23
- 11Alexander BedardApo$17
- 12Mindy ParkApo$0
- 13Christopher FrederickFpo$0
- 14Bilgehan OnogulApo$0