Infectious Disease in Oklahoma
51 providers, $184,605 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $448.
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 infectious disease clinicians in Oklahoma
Across 39 infectious disease clinicians in Oklahoma who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $5,036,851 in total — an average of $129,150 each, of which $111,912 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
- 1Carl LindquistTinker Afb$83,867
- 2Ahmad AshfaqOklahoma City$22,021
- 3Peter OkwuasabaTulsa$14,876
- 4Girish MurthyArdmore$12,328
- 5Gitanjali PaiWagoner$6,545
- 6Erin McBrideOklahoma City$6,400
- 7Amaury DiazOklahoma City$4,716
- 8David ScheckTulsa$4,573
- 9Bushra SiddiqueOklahoma City$3,348
- 10Andrea ScottOklahoma City$3,255
- 11Janki AminOklahoma City$3,109
- 12David ChansolmeOklahoma City$2,313
- 13Faisal WasiStigler$2,248
- 14Heather BellTulsa$1,733
- 15Miranda McGheeOklahoma City$1,655
- 16Sristi BhattaraiTulsa$1,503
- 17Cade ParkeOklahoma City$1,245
- 18John HarkessOklahoma City$1,158
- 19Hosam MousselliTulsa$1,063
- 20Maria AlkozahOklahoma City$829
- 21Stephan HambazTulsa$729
- 22Edemekong BasseyTulsa$688
- 23Clifford WlodaverMidwest City$503
- 24Vijay KolliOklahoma City$496
- 25Mark VerityOklahoma City$451
- 26Yasir AhmedTulsa$448
- 27Anuj MalikTulsa$434
- 28Ashley JenkinsTulsa$379
- 29Saud AhmedOklahoma City$312
- 30Thara DamodaranOklahoma City$301
- 31Pradeep Kumar MadaLawton$276
- 32Jose Henao CorderoOklahoma City$236
- 33Janice TeTulsa$114
- 34Joseph SassineOklahoma City$105
- 35Nelson Agudelo-HiguitaOklahoma City$72
- 36Mark RowlandTulsa$66
- 37Aline BrownOklahoma City$40
- 38Stanley SchwartzTulsa$32
- 39James HuttonTulsa$25
- 40Douglas DrevetsOklahoma City$21
- 41Dilip MahaleTulsa$19
- 42Linda SalinasOklahoma City$18
- 43Deidra BowmanOklahoma City$17
- 44Debra MurrayTulsa$15
- 45Vadakepat RamgopalOklahoma City$13
- 46James KirkOklahoma City$12
- 47Michael BronzeOklahoma City$0
- 48Kathy HoangOklahoma City$0
- 49Michelle SalvaggioOklahoma City$0
- 50William LewisTulsa$0
- 51Jane HudsonOklahoma City$0