Foot Surgery in North Carolina
13 providers, $36,292 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 North Carolina
Across 9 foot surgery clinicians in North Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,494,733 in total — an average of $166,081 each, of which $145,837 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 ArneWinston Salem$19,848
- 2Robert KleinEden$5,491
- 3Bryan SatterwhiteShallotte$3,632
- 4Christopher YoungWilmington$2,584
- 5Scott BasingerCharlotte$1,644
- 6Bennett EvansFayetteville$1,121
- 7Reagan ParrishMorehead City$733
- 8Devin RicksFayetteville$472
- 9Tori Simmons LewisCharlotte$370
- 10Rosemary MichelFayetteville$163
- 11Kerry SmithWilmington$102
- 12Virginia AlbanoJacksonville$91
- 13Sonya CatesWinston Salem$41