General Surgery in Hawaii
10 providers, $39,148 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 general surgery clinicians in Hawaii
Across 10 general surgery clinicians in Hawaii who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $714,129 in total — an average of $71,413 each, of which $71,413 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
- 1Mihae YuHonolulu$37,188
- 2Makoto OgiharaHonolulu$1,444
- 3Sergio LugoWailuku$403
- 4Susan SteinemannHonolulu$113
- 5John BalfourHonolulu$0
- 6Linda MiyashiroLihue$0
- 7Hao Chih HoHonolulu$0
- 8Beth JarrettWailuku$0
- 9Andrew TanWailuku$0
- 10Junji MachiHonolulu$0