Hospice and Palliative Medicine in Alabama
13 providers, $373,102 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 hospice and palliative medicine clinicians in Alabama
Across 10 hospice and palliative medicine clinicians in Alabama who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $407,328 in total — an average of $40,733 each, of which $40,733 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
- 1Anna WaldingDothan$370,869
- 2Kristy Johnson-PichDothan$919
- 3Asia McIntoshMontgomery$318
- 4Neal SteilCullman$271
- 5Donato DumlaoDaphne$170
- 6Jerry RobinsonBoaz$142
- 7Hesham HassanFultondale$139
- 8Kevin BarleyHuntsville$77
- 9Moses AwoniyiDecatur$69
- 10Echo OslandHuntsville$52
- 11Jasmina HiraHuntsville$47
- 12Michael HurstBirmingham$15
- 13Beverly KosikDothan$15