General Practice in Kentucky
1,155 providers, $2,094,482 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $196.
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 general practice clinicians in Kentucky
Across 31 general practice clinicians in Kentucky who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,250,230 in total — an average of $40,330 each, of which $37,087 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
- 1Eric SchneebergerWarsaw$539,154
- 2Stephen SterlitzLexington$262,594
- 3Ryan LewisFrankfort$189,836
- 4Jerome WellbrockCovington$173,290
- 5Shana HughesRussell Springs$85,319
- 6Bryan HarrisLouisville$52,642
- 7Bach NguyenUnion$31,000
- 8Ryan GolibersuchLexington$23,226
- 9Mary ShieldsLouisville$20,513
- 10Beatrice NewellStanton$19,951
- 11Bradley HarmonLouisville$16,938
- 12Robert FuchsLouisville$16,165
- 13David ZetterArlington$11,883
- 14Megan RatliffLouisville$11,422
- 15Matthew RileyGlasgow$11,347
- 16Eric NunnallyLouisville$9,957
- 17Joseph ChambersLexington$9,706
- 18Dianne GoodaleMadisonville$8,596
- 19James WrightUnion$8,431
- 20Paul KoshgerianLexington$7,542
- 21Stetson EarlFlorence$7,284
- 22Morgan ChambersLexington$6,789
- 23Alexis MaiCrestview Hills$6,635
- 24Paul PedersenBarbourville$6,205
- 25Derek KirbyFort Campbell$6,172
- 26David SchaeferLouisville$5,913
- 27John MullinsLexington$5,768
- 28Neville JacobLouisville$5,541
- 29Michael BishopNicholasville$5,386
- 30James WrightUnion$5,380
- 31William BarnesSalem$5,378
- 32William CarteeLexington$5,361
- 33Janeice Wooten-KerrLouisville$4,856
- 34Audrey KinderPineville$4,258
- 35Gerald SchoenlaubLouisville$4,066
- 36Terry WardOwensboro$3,635
- 37Brooke SheltonRadcliff$3,513
- 38Gregory SmithElizabethtown$3,356
- 39Michael ChristianAshland$3,348
- 40Jeffrey HollandPaducah$3,335
- 41William DiamondLexington$3,294
- 42Dillon ReedWilliamsburg$3,217
- 43Jeffrey PeterIndependence$3,137
- 44Karen SennLouisville$3,114
- 45Ronald ShrewsburyBardstown$3,110
- 46Keegan ChandlerCrestwood$3,051
- 47Benjamin TaylorLouisville$3,050
- 48Sean AikenLouisville$3,007
- 49Teresa LyonLexington$3,004
- 50Barry ApplegateCovington$2,989
- 51Racheal HamelCovington$2,976
- 52Thomas BirkenhauerBowling Green$2,970
- 53Sara CumminsProspect$2,888
- 54Patricia TakacsLexington$2,763
- 55Valerie McMillenLouisville$2,763
- 56Shawn MooreLouisville$2,696
- 57Mark HewlettShelbyville$2,626
- 58Kimberly MartinVersailles$2,618
- 59Henry HoodLouisville$2,612
- 60Lori England WrightBowling Green$2,595