Hand Surgery in Alaska
9 providers, $26,990 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 hand surgery clinicians in Alaska
Across 8 hand surgery clinicians in Alaska who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,559,366 in total — an average of $194,921 each, of which $188,080 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
- 1Kurt MentzerAnchorage$11,892
- 2Dann LaudermilchAnchorage$6,571
- 3Jessie JanowskiAnchorage$4,711
- 4Mary FoxAnchorage$1,370
- 5Alan SwensonAnchorage$1,207
- 6Michael McNamaraAnchorage$789
- 7Marc KornmesserAnchorage$289
- 8Owen AlaAnchorage$145
- 9Leslie DeanAnchorage$17