Hand Surgery in New Mexico
12 providers, $63,704 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 New Mexico
Across 8 hand surgery clinicians in New Mexico who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $933,202 in total — an average of $116,650 each, of which $113,442 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
- 1Nathan MorrellAlbuquerque$38,638
- 2Mark AndersonAlbuquerque$8,055
- 3Ryan DahlbergRio Rancho$6,120
- 4Donnie LujanAlbuquerque$4,485
- 5Jennifer WagnerSanta Fe$1,963
- 6Kenna LarsenAlbuquerque$1,659
- 7Matthew PattonAlbuquerque$1,109
- 8Elizabeth MikolaAlbuquerque$755
- 9Charles MetzgerLas Cruces$558
- 10Samuel ChunSanta Fe$216
- 11Charles PribylAlbuquerque$85
- 12James ClarkAlbuquerque$60