Nuclear Cardiology in New York
21 providers, $5,825,936 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $1,470.
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 nuclear cardiology clinicians in New York
Across 16 nuclear cardiology clinicians in New York who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $4,375,400 in total — an average of $273,463 each, of which $272,100 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
- 1Klaus RentropNew York$5,634,199
- 2Diwakar JainHawthorne$104,856
- 3John AsheldWest Islip$23,922
- 4Brian RiegelWilliamsville$22,760
- 5Wilbur AsheldWest Islip$11,335
- 6Jonathan WeinsaftNew York$10,482
- 7Ossama SamuelBrooklyn$6,812
- 8Rajesh RohatgiGarden City$4,418
- 9Harout YacoubNew York$1,603
- 10Nicholas PapapietroBrooklyn$1,520
- 11Ahmad Nawid LatifiRochester$1,470
- 12Ananth ShankarBronx$969
- 13Margarita ChernovolenkoNew York$637
- 14Khalid HassanBrooklyn$342
- 15Nidal MakhoulPlattsburgh$258
- 16Van-Hong NguyenNew York$99
- 17Lynne JohnsonNew York$59
- 18Kenneth LeeNew York$58
- 19Surekha PatelBrooklyn$51
- 20Ramon Brugada-TerradellasSyracuse$49
- 21Mofid Khalil IbrahimBuffalo$38