Hospice and Palliative Medicine in Hawaii
8 providers, $503,410 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 Hawaii
Across 1 hospice and palliative medicine clinicians in Hawaii who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $19,487 in total — an average of $19,487 each, of which $19,487 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
- 1Neil ClendeninnPrinceville$502,881
- 2Katie MeltonTripler Army Medical Center$285
- 3Katherine DietrichHonolulu$118
- 4Vishal GoyalLihue$51
- 5Gary SaldanaKapaa$22
- 6Michael DuickHonolulu$20
- 7Chad FarmerWailuku$19
- 8Renee RealiHilo$15