Foot Surgery in Mississippi
14 providers, $24,551 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 foot surgery clinicians in Mississippi
Across 10 foot surgery clinicians in Mississippi who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,015,874 in total — an average of $201,587 each, of which $167,184 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
- 1Charles CaplisOcean Springs$9,176
- 2Vern ChristensenAmory$5,080
- 3Robert ApplingSouthaven$3,872
- 4Mary CookBiloxi$1,627
- 5Robert HurstCorinth$1,264
- 6Robert WenzlerSouthaven$1,207
- 7Renita ShawWiggins$761
- 8Jeffrey BenzingBay St Louis$550
- 9Michael de MarcoPoplarville$405
- 10Lawrence TamburinoBrandon$295
- 11Vanessa MirasolBiloxi$128
- 12Robert WoodruffJackson$127
- 13Chris VarvaOxford$30
- 14Michael BoykinsRidgeland$28