Medical-Surgical in Texas
23 providers, $13,858 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $171.
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 medical-surgical clinicians in Texas
Across 2 medical-surgical clinicians in Texas who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $73,790 in total — an average of $36,895 each, of which $36,895 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
- 1Jill DickersonSan Antonio$5,255
- 2Kenneth CurllSan Antonio$1,952
- 3Ashley DavilaAustin$1,266
- 4Renee FletcherOlmos Park$1,126
- 5Katherine EasterwoodKilleen$811
- 6Jackie CurlAmarillo$802
- 7Marcia GamezDallas$592
- 8Ma Teresita TagayunaDallas$549
- 9Susan WilkinsonSan Angelo$364
- 10Obinwanne GbuguPearland$290
- 11Randa VajdakCollege Station$190
- 12Phyllis McCorstinSherman$171
- 13Brenda HensonShenandoah$150
- 14Amy HerreraHouston$93
- 15Evangelina VillagomezHouston$50
- 16Karen JacksonSan Angelo$44
- 17Karen LyonTomball$39
- 18Carolina StoneDallas$24
- 19Christopher TalabockFort Worth$24
- 20Ava RedmondRowlett$20
- 21Coty WolfEl Paso$16
- 22Lauren ReyesSpring$15
- 23Laura BonnerGrapevine$14