Emergency Medicine in Kentucky
717 providers, $578,472 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $39.
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 Kentucky
Across 611 emergency medicine clinicians in Kentucky who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $32,017,335 in total — an average of $52,402 each, of which $52,379 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
- 1James MooreLexington$183,988
- 2Ryan StantonLexington$83,108
- 3Paul HesterDanville$57,136
- 4Sameer DesaiLexington$24,233
- 5Christopher ReynoldsPikeville$22,097
- 6Adam RossLouisville$22,011
- 7Andrew WilsonLexington$15,626
- 8Ryan PowellLexington$11,843
- 9Burton BrooksBowling Green$11,230
- 10Douglas SmithLexington$10,880
- 11John SmithFort Mitchell$7,508
- 12Jordan BrunswickLexington$6,089
- 13Amal AgarwalLexington$4,647
- 14Daniel DanzlLouisville$4,550
- 15James YoungCorbin$3,906
- 16Peter Damian AkpunonuLexington$3,670
- 17Evan VincentLexington$3,550
- 18Daniel BrunnerEdgewood$3,375
- 19Robert RogersLexington$3,012
- 20Balaji NithianandamEdgewood$2,945
- 21William MossBowling Green$2,613
- 22Thomas PopeLouisville$2,344
- 23Anthony LancasterLouisville$1,697
- 24George BosseLouisville$1,582
- 25Tuyen TranLexington$1,572
- 26James FosterLexington$1,480
- 27Ryan SmithLexington$1,298
- 28Theodore RedmanFort Campbell$1,270
- 29Kevin MeyerFort Thomas$1,195
- 30Steven HeilmanLouisville$1,166
- 31Christopher DurhamLexington$1,162
- 32Eric GuerrantDanville$1,142
- 33Andrew PiercePaducah$1,133
- 34Terren TrottLexington$1,105
- 35Wesley BarnettCynthiana$1,039
- 36Karina BuschElizabethtown$1,031
- 37Michael SweeneyLexington$992
- 38Rachel HelplingEdgewood$983
- 39David WredeLexington$946
- 40Campbell BishopShelbyville$871
- 41Sarah HenzmanDanville$858
- 42William HollandLouisville$854
- 43Hien leFort Thomas$823
- 44Matthew SmithLexington$816
- 45Nicholas MooreLexington$815
- 46Josiah BurrowsLexington$751
- 47Ross WannerLexington$688
- 48Brian VanderboeghPaducah$680
- 49Thomas JohnstonLouisville$619
- 50Ryan SmithLagrange$603
- 51Blake DavidsonLexington$589
- 52Taylor DuncanFort Thomas$572
- 53Bruce KostelnikLexington$569
- 54Michael McClurgEdgewood$565
- 55David BiddleLouisville$560
- 56Allison RainsLexington$549
- 57Paul ThomasLouisville$517
- 58Angelo CruzLexington$512
- 59Diana LabradaLexington$512
- 60Ali JesseeBenton$512