General Surgery in Oklahoma
8 providers, $535,451 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 Oklahoma
Across 8 general surgery clinicians in Oklahoma who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $822,505 in total — an average of $102,813 each, of which $102,764 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
- 1Michael SawyerLawton$510,842
- 2Baolien TuOklahoma City$17,647
- 3Timothy RobisonMuskogee$6,962
- 4John GroundPonca City$0
- 5Philip FloydOklahoma City$0
- 6Michael RiggsOklahoma City$0
- 7Grant McCluneShawnee$0
- 8Brenda HuenergardtWoodward$0