Epilepsy in Washington
12 providers, $19,647 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 epilepsy clinicians in Washington
Across 10 epilepsy clinicians in Washington who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $516,769 in total — an average of $51,677 each, of which $51,677 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
- 1Thomas BullockBellevue$8,411
- 2Nicholas PoolosSeattle$3,353
- 3Timothy PowellSpokane$2,280
- 4John EatonBellevue$1,739
- 5Natasha SparrowSpokane$1,135
- 6Wolfgang MuhlhoferSeattle$940
- 7Nausheen MahmoodSeattle$769
- 8Noah EbySeattle$500
- 9Shahin HakimianSeattle$486
- 10Denise ChenSeattle$22
- 11Behnaz EsmaeiliSeattle$13
- 12Jeffrey TsaiSeattle$0