Hand Surgery in Hawaii
10 providers, $15,335 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 Hawaii
Across 6 hand surgery clinicians in Hawaii who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $760,722 in total — an average of $126,787 each, of which $125,577 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
- 1Ryan BickleyTripler Army Medical Center$7,261
- 2Aimee PerreiraHonolulu$3,152
- 3Gary BlumHonolulu$3,054
- 4Robert AtkinsonHonolulu$750
- 5Robert ShinHonolulu$389
- 6Sara SakamotoKailua$346
- 7Daniel SingerHonolulu$157
- 8Derek IpsenTripler Amc$130
- 9David MathewsHonolulu$54
- 10Kimberley WirsingWailuku$43