Neurological Surgery in Alaska
14 providers, $160,529 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 neurological surgery clinicians in Alaska
Across 9 neurological surgery clinicians in Alaska who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,702,995 in total — an average of $189,222 each, of which $189,222 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
- 1Samuel WallerAnchorage$45,187
- 2Estrada BernardAnchorage$28,885
- 3Timothy CohenAnchorage$19,518
- 4le HeAnchorage$18,302
- 5Richard PerrinAnchorage$15,445
- 6John LopezFairbanks$12,820
- 7David PaulsonAnchorage$9,959
- 8Brian MillerAnchorage$6,468
- 9James BalesAnchorage$1,961
- 10Susanne FixAnchorage$980
- 11Paul JensenFairbanks$829
- 12Louis KralickAnchorage$84
- 13Kim WrightAnchorage$77
- 14Marius MaxwellAnchorage$14