Interventional Cardiology in Alaska
10 providers, $64,829 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 interventional cardiology clinicians in Alaska
Across 10 interventional cardiology clinicians in Alaska who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,493,331 in total — an average of $249,333 each, of which $246,012 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
- 1Romel WrennFairbanks$21,821
- 2Josiah BrownAnchorage$14,736
- 3David LemonsPalmer$6,779
- 4Ryan McDonoughPalmer$6,565
- 5Jasleen TiwanaAnchorage$5,363
- 6Carson WebbAnchorage$3,781
- 7Thomas KramerAnchorage$2,119
- 8Richard AnschuetzAnchorage$1,498
- 9Blake CharltonAnchorage$1,100
- 10Lee PiersonAnchorage$1,067