Foot Surgery in Washington
14 providers, $29,345 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 Washington
Across 9 foot surgery clinicians in Washington who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $933,741 in total — an average of $103,749 each, of which $102,457 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
- 1Eddie LoTacoma$13,320
- 2Chad FarleyLakewood$4,253
- 3Abdulaziz KimawiFederal Way$3,525
- 4Natalie ChuTacoma$3,518
- 5David GriffinVancouver$1,573
- 6Lyle LorimerSeattle$759
- 7Ronald DouglasSpokane$745
- 8Shawn SummersYakima$538
- 9Samuel LiebsonPort Angeles$319
- 10Chad SmithPuyallup$261
- 11Michael SherwinBellingham$151
- 12Joanne GormleyEdmonds$144
- 13Erin OrourkeEdmonds$143
- 14Karen TurcicVancouver$95