Hand Surgery in Indiana
60 providers, $769,373 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $2,034.
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 Indiana
Across 54 hand surgery clinicians in Indiana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $7,482,198 in total — an average of $138,559 each, of which $129,820 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
- 1Adelbert MenciasSouth Bend$172,195
- 2Brandon SmetanaIndianapolis$136,289
- 3Jeffrey GreenbergIndianapolis$121,299
- 4Reed HoyerIndianapolis$109,614
- 5Paul PerryEvansville$43,790
- 6Nicholas CrosbyIndianapolis$17,569
- 7Mathew WalkerGreenwood$16,777
- 8Brett SchiffmanMunster$11,791
- 9Kathryn PeckIndianapolis$11,487
- 10Sameer PuriIndianapolis$10,983
- 11Emily JewellIndianapolis$10,144
- 12Robert LinkIndianapolis$9,559
- 13Gregory MerrellIndianapolis$7,971
- 14Gregory SchmidtIndianapolis$7,456
- 15Richard MakowiecIndianapolis$7,325
- 16Nicholas CookMuncie$7,032
- 17William KleinmanIndianapolis$6,906
- 18F Thomas KaplanIndianapolis$6,896
- 19Robert BalteraIndianapolis$5,182
- 20Ryan HartIndianapolis$4,377
- 21Jack GelmanMunster$3,959
- 22Rashad UsmaniIndianapolis$3,777
- 23Christy KellamsGreenwood$3,698
- 24Ganeshan RamachandranLogansport$3,623
- 25William DotterweichIndianapolis$3,383
- 26Dale DellacquaBloomington$3,334
- 27Joseph SchwartzMerrillville$3,055
- 28Craig CarterEvansville$2,308
- 29Toni LinIndianapolis$2,142
- 30Heather WilliamsIndianapolis$2,034
- 31Khusboo DesaiIndianapolis$1,932
- 32Randolph FerlicSouth Bend$1,496
- 33Robert FalenderGreenwood$1,432
- 34William LasalleFort Wayne$1,115
- 35John MorganEvansville$834
- 36Timothy DickeIndianapolis$790
- 37Lance RettigCarmel$787
- 38Michael DidonnaFishers$618
- 39James FischerIndianapolis$581
- 40John MahonSouth Bend$564
- 41Michael PannunzioCarmel$549
- 42Brian EvansonMunster$514
- 43Otto WickstromBloomington$441
- 44Matthew WelschIndianapolis$308
- 45Li ChenAnderson$235
- 46David CutcliffeElkhart$192
- 47John BaumanLafayette$186
- 48Anjan KaushikNew Castle$180
- 49Kelly GranerGreenwood$152
- 50David PopeElkhart$95
- 51Steven EddyFort Wayne$86
- 52John SchrammElkhart$71
- 53Ward HamletFort Wayne$61
- 54Andrew VicarIndianapolis$57
- 55Niles SchwartzFort Wayne$43
- 56Frederick ChaykowskiFort Wayne$38
- 57James StricklandIndianapolis$35
- 58Fadhil AlsikafiTerre Haute$28
- 59Christine ToevsTerre Haute$0
- 60Andrew CombsWestfield$0