Gastroenterology in Kentucky
207 providers, $4,966,267 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $3,388.
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 gastroenterology clinicians in Kentucky
Across 173 gastroenterology clinicians in Kentucky who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $16,023,409 in total — an average of $92,621 each, of which $83,107 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
- 1Gerald DrydenLouisville$2,126,914
- 2Zahid SaeedCrestview Hills$441,990
- 3Matthew CaveLouisville$340,005
- 4Michael KreaseLouisville$321,768
- 5Sunana SohiLouisville$219,872
- 6Jeffrey TuvlinLouisville$202,127
- 7Stephen McClaveLouisville$123,833
- 8Uday ShankarHazard$64,480
- 9Terrence BarrettLexington$56,822
- 10Avinash AravantagiBowling Green$44,861
- 11Ashutosh BarveLouisville$43,204
- 12Thomas AbellLouisville$35,532
- 13Nanlong LiuLouisville$30,746
- 14An-Yu ChenLexington$25,142
- 15Kathleen MartinLexington$22,512
- 16Todd HornSomerset$22,121
- 17Craig McClainLouisville$21,558
- 18Gregory WoolfolkLexington$19,162
- 19Matthew AshmunLexington$18,733
- 20Deborah FlomenhoftLexington$18,303
- 21Scott MerkleyLexington$17,732
- 22John HorlanderLouisville$17,516
- 23Paul BrownLouisville$17,032
- 24Whitney JonesLouisville$16,376
- 25James PezziLexington$15,375
- 26John DacostaMadisonville$14,267
- 27Cory FieldingBowling Green$13,756
- 28Joel WarrenCrestview Hills$13,255
- 29Alan CoxLouisville$13,054
- 30Chadwick HatfieldCrestview Hills$13,031
- 31Adalberto CastellanosLexington$12,502
- 32June YongLexington$12,494
- 33Victor HowardLexington$11,532
- 34Karlina PattonCrestview Hills$11,356
- 35Jens RosenauLexington$10,944
- 36Warren FrankLexington$10,751
- 37Daniel FagelCrestview Hills$10,260
- 38Michael HsuFlorence$10,150
- 39Ryan CarbaughDanville$9,665
- 40Alla GrigorianLexington$9,590
- 41Scott LeverageCrestview Hills$9,577
- 42Stephen OverstreetLouisville$9,396
- 43Kartika ReddyLouisville$9,027
- 44Laszlo MakkLouisville$8,990
- 45Philip LeipprandtPikeville$8,926
- 46Miguel LalamaOwensboro$8,642
- 47Amy TiuLexington$8,580
- 48Kevin HeineLouisville$8,350
- 49Michael GreenwellLouisville$8,256
- 50Donald RauhLexington$8,211
- 51Ann MonardoBowling Green$8,204
- 52Harrison Daniella Grange$7,742
- 53Benjamin BrysonSomerset$7,643
- 54Jeffrey RiggsGlasgow$7,634
- 55Michael SimonsCorbin$7,609
- 56Brian BeauerleLouisville$7,583
- 57Matthew MillerMt Sterling$7,447
- 58Hadiatou BarryLouisville$7,416
- 59Tracey WolfordLouisville$7,325
- 60Jagannath SherigarRichmond$7,249