Hand Surgery in Kentucky
56 providers, $405,728 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $2,532.
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 Kentucky
Across 27 hand surgery clinicians in Kentucky who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $4,511,941 in total — an average of $167,109 each, of which $153,205 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
- 1Amitava GuptaLouisville$175,438
- 2James BakerEdgewood$40,106
- 3Tuna OzyurekogluLouisville$24,723
- 4Stephanie MerimeeLouisville$16,301
- 5Luke RobinsonLouisville$12,249
- 6Monica PecacheLouisville$10,724
- 7Rodrigo Moreno GarciaLouisville$10,090
- 8Maureen OshaughnessyLexington$8,129
- 9Michelle PalazzoLouisville$7,188
- 10Jorge Quintero PerezLouisville$6,522
- 11Elkin Galvis LeonLouisville$5,788
- 12Kjell van RoyenLouisville$5,521
- 13Yousif El-GammalLouisville$4,286
- 14Claudia Palomino DiazLouisville$4,248
- 15Keith MorrisonBowling Green$4,088
- 16Musab HijanLouisville$3,792
- 17Stephen UmanskyLexington$3,695
- 18Laura Cardenas MateusLouisville$3,463
- 19Salman ShirazLouisville$3,313
- 20Lauren FaderLouisville$3,285
- 21Gonzalo PintadoLouisville$3,284
- 22Abel HerreraLouisville$3,281
- 23Maria SuarezLouisville$3,270
- 24Ahmet AydinLouisville$3,215
- 25Mario AlmarazLouisville$3,007
- 26Ethan BlackburnLouisville$2,644
- 27Jonathan SlaughterHighland Heights$2,592
- 28Joseph NashElizabethtown$2,532
- 29Aishah MousaLouisville$2,390
- 30Gian Paolo Loo FLouisville$2,354
- 31Rosa ParkLouisville$2,149
- 32Maria OrtegaLouisville$2,114
- 33Brandon DeversLexington$2,007
- 34Matthew EadsLexington$1,845
- 35Megan ReitenbachLexington$1,761
- 36Nicholas FoegerLouisville$1,346
- 37Sergio Serna MurrietaLouisville$1,344
- 38Ashwini Varadha RajanLouisville$1,341
- 39Jae Jun NamLouisville$1,334
- 40Meryem LemsanniLouisville$1,265
- 41Tsu TsaiLouisville$1,158
- 42Marcelo GamarraLouisville$1,117
- 43Ahmed Al WahaibiLouisville$1,045
- 44Jason PattonPaducah$1,027
- 45Hussain AlaliLouisville$1,015
- 46Charity BurkeLouisville$601
- 47Victor FehrenbacherLouisville$544
- 48Shafe BolesOwensboro$328
- 49David TateLouisville$236
- 50Mohd Mujahed AlkurdiehLouisville$216
- 51Thomas DueEdgewood$141
- 52Thomas GabrielLouisville$96
- 53Margaret NapolitanoLexington$91
- 54Shiro YoshidaLouisville$42
- 55Hadeel AlalawiLouisville$34
- 56Jose Banda MendozaLouisville$14