Hospice and Palliative Medicine in Kentucky
23 providers, $10,943 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $60.
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 Kentucky
Across 13 hospice and palliative medicine clinicians in Kentucky who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $770,186 in total — an average of $59,245 each, of which $59,245 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
- 1William TravisLouisville$4,825
- 2Melissa KounsEdgewood$1,539
- 3Derrick StrunkErlanger$1,538
- 4Regina KaurLexington$1,515
- 5Mabel KyinnLouisville$254
- 6Denise PhillipsLexington$190
- 7Ashley IlesLouisville$184
- 8Melanie FarrellOwensboro$155
- 9Neena JamesLouisville$151
- 10Laura TriceEdgewood$92
- 11Denisha RawlingsLexington$82
- 12Hannah HarrisonLouisville$60
- 13Elizabeth MarkusLexington$59
- 14Katrina NickelsLexington$50
- 15Renate StinglLouisville$43
- 16Kelly KaempfLexington$36
- 17Waqar SaleemLouisville$34
- 18Robin RinehartEdgewood$33
- 19Nathan RileyLouisville$29
- 20Christine BridgesLouisville$25
- 21Joel MoncivaizLexington$18
- 22Lauren RothEdgewood$18
- 23Andrew LallyLouisville$13