Hematology & Oncology in Hawaii
42 providers, $236,433 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $1,482.
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 hematology & oncology clinicians in Hawaii
Across 30 hematology & oncology clinicians in Hawaii who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $9,010,141 in total — an average of $300,338 each, of which $108,557 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. 64% of this figure is the cost of drugs administered in the office — chemotherapy, infusions and injections that Part B pays for and the practice has already bought. That money passes through; it is not earnings. 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
- 1Tamie KernsHonolulu$48,321
- 2David TamuraHonolulu$30,890
- 3Melvin PalalayHonolulu$20,228
- 4Ryon NakasoneHonolulu$19,919
- 5Arnold YeeHonolulu$16,596
- 6Jared AcobaHonolulu$14,911
- 7Swaty AroraHonolulu$14,690
- 8Ramin AltahaWailuku$12,791
- 9William LouiHonolulu$11,720
- 10Jodi KagiharaHonolulu$7,087
- 11Nicolas VillanuevaHonolulu$5,664
- 12Yoshihito SaitoHonolulu$4,835
- 13Cecilia ChoiMakawao$4,415
- 14William AdlerWailuku$2,773
- 15Jonathan ChoHonolulu$2,593
- 16Kelly ShimabukuroHonolulu$2,352
- 17Kenneth SumidaHonolulu$2,322
- 18Taying YangKaneohe$2,228
- 19Anthony LimHilo$1,732
- 20Karen ShouTripler Amc$1,537
- 21Carl HiguchiAiea$1,482
- 22Kaye KawaharaHonolulu$1,375
- 23Gordon NakanoHonolulu$854
- 24Craig BoddyHonolulu$638
- 25C Galen ChoyHonolulu$592
- 26Dipak GhelaniHonolulu$575
- 27Jeffrey BerenbergTamc$472
- 28Michelle MiyashiroHonolulu$351
- 29Robert SgrignoliTripler Army Medical Center$348
- 30Teruo YamauchiHonolulu$345
- 31Dhiraj YadavWailuku$283
- 32James NguyenTripler Army Medical Center$247
- 33David SaltmanHilo$228
- 34Keola BealeHonolulu$221
- 35Larry EbbertWailuku$215
- 36Kenneth HerbstWaianae$195
- 37Matthew ChaseHonolulu$171
- 38Devena Alston-JohnsonWailuku$76
- 39Jessica RheeHonolulu$71
- 40Gregory PollackWailuku$48
- 41Reginald HoHonolulu$41
- 42Jennifer CarneyHonolulu$0