Hepatology in Florida
18 providers, $500,796 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 hepatology clinicians in Florida
Across 14 hepatology clinicians in Florida who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $695,202 in total — an average of $49,657 each, of which $42,641 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
- 1Brett FortuneMiami$147,494
- 2Shady GuirguisOrlando$100,185
- 3Cynthia LevyMiami$88,302
- 4Miguel MalespinTampa$63,987
- 5Arvind Rangarajan MuraliOrlando$46,476
- 6Basem AlkurdiTampa$18,291
- 7Christopher ObrienWeston$18,156
- 8Flavia MendesMiami$6,087
- 9Leopoldo ArosemenaMiami$4,381
- 10Xaralambos ZervosOrlando$3,015
- 11Mina AwadallahBoca Raton$1,771
- 12Peter GergesOrlando$1,032
- 13Brent MyersFt Myers$588
- 14Eugene SchiffMiami$405
- 15Neha AgrawalJacksonville$292
- 16Patricia JonesMiami$229
- 17Mina ShakerMiami$105
- 18Lennox JeffersMiami$0