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Hand Surgery in North Carolina

79 providers, $2,166,747 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $2,519.

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 North Carolina

Part B allowed per clinician, 2024
$157,779
Of which, services
$146,394
Clinicians billing Part B
61

Across 61 hand surgery clinicians in North Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $9,624,496 in total — an average of $157,779 each, of which $146,394 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

  1. 1Christpher KliftoDurham$575,411
  2. 2Raymond GastonCharlotte$505,086
  3. 3Ryan GarciaCharlotte$381,169
  4. 4Richard MooreWilmington$177,014
  5. 5Erica TaylorRaleigh$97,363
  6. 6Tyler PidgeonMorrisville$50,470
  7. 7John YanikAsheville$32,154
  8. 8Zhongyu LiWinston Salem$28,697
  9. 9Patricia WellbornRaleigh$25,942
  10. 10Anshul AgarwalaGreensboro$20,717
  11. 11Ryan TarrRaleigh$19,312
  12. 12Richard BahnerWilmington$19,115
  13. 13Kristin HedgeNew Bern$18,298
  14. 14Alexander ChiaramontiWinston Salem$16,414
  15. 15Michael GearyConcord$14,925
  16. 16Paulvalery RouletteMatthews$13,418
  17. 17Derek BernsteinWinston Salem$13,388
  18. 18Smiresh ShahConcord$10,340
  19. 19Erika GanttCharlotte$9,333
  20. 20Andrew BridgforthGreenville$9,209
  21. 21Benjamin GravesWinston Salem$9,092
  22. 22Stewart DaltonBurlington$7,505
  23. 23Derrick HickeyWrightsville Beach$6,735
  24. 24Aaron RobertsNew Bern$6,181
  25. 25Aimee RileyAsheville$6,110
  26. 26Christopher BelyeaFort Bragg$5,957
  27. 27Charles BenfieldGreensboro$5,831
  28. 28Mark PerlmutterRocky Mount$5,807
  29. 29Timothy LuchettiRaleigh$5,612
  30. 30Okechukwu NwokoRaleigh$5,196
  31. 31Christopher TuohyWinston Salem$5,141
  32. 32Tara NagarajaDenver$4,869
  33. 33Kelly EspositoWilmington$4,818
  34. 34Ethan WieslerWinston Salem$4,117
  35. 35Kevin TaylorGreenville$4,063
  36. 36Julie WoodsideLincolnton$3,699
  37. 37Benjamin LevineFayetteville$3,649
  38. 38Nathan HeinemanSmithfield$3,332
  39. 39John EricksonRaleigh$2,660
  40. 40Terry MesserRaleigh$2,519
  41. 41Gary KuzmaGreensboro$2,276
  42. 42Michael AversanoCharlotte$2,048
  43. 43Adam StarrAsheville$1,989
  44. 44George EdwardsRaleigh$1,720
  45. 45Kenneth LindleyDurham$1,624
  46. 46George EdwardsRaleigh$1,484
  47. 47Jeremy MilesCary$1,342
  48. 48Angelo CammarataAsheville$1,253
  49. 49Paul SchrickerRaleigh$1,069
  50. 50Thomas GinnSalisbury$1,050
  51. 51Julian AldridgeDurham$1,011
  52. 52James PostRaleigh$908
  53. 53John GaulCharlotte$825
  54. 54William WardCharlotte$745
  55. 55James PhelpsAsheville$653
  56. 56Steven WintersDurham$487
  57. 57James SpearsGreensboro$475
  58. 58Peter WatersCharlotte$475
  59. 59Kevin KuzmaGreensboro$434
  60. 60Matthew WeingoldGreensboro$365
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