General Surgery in Mississippi
10 providers, $65,209 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 Mississippi
Across 10 general surgery clinicians in Mississippi who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,673,007 in total — an average of $167,301 each, of which $167,301 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
- 1Geoffrey FlattmannNatchez$26,220
- 2Steven PattersonJackson$13,923
- 3Patrick ScanlonJackson$10,046
- 4James ChandlerJackson$7,437
- 5Richard YelvertonJackson$5,374
- 6David RimmerBay St Louis$2,208
- 7Philip DoolittleGreenville$0
- 8Jeffery DoolittleGreenville$0
- 9Jaiyeola AdeleyeClarksdale$0
- 10Christopher LahrJackson$0