Gynecology in West Virginia
9 providers, $42,980 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 gynecology clinicians in West Virginia
Across 5 gynecology clinicians in West Virginia who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $136,943 in total — an average of $27,389 each, of which $27,389 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
- 1Robert DepondCharleston$29,266
- 2Sam BadranPoint Pleasant$8,694
- 3Samantha ChaffinRonceverte$2,323
- 4Derek KaznoskiMartinsburg$1,640
- 5Leigh MasseyWheeling$732
- 6Vidya PuranikBeckley$147
- 7Lisa SkinnerMadison$88
- 8John BattaglinoWheeling$67
- 9Ernest FloresElkins$23