Nuclear Cardiology in Pennsylvania
12 providers, $82,659 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 nuclear cardiology clinicians in Pennsylvania
Across 10 nuclear cardiology clinicians in Pennsylvania who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,026,433 in total — an average of $102,643 each, of which $101,860 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
- 1Prem SomanPittsburgh$38,836
- 2Arthur TopoulosPhiladelphia$36,144
- 3Leroy MoorePittsburgh$2,867
- 4Rina Gandhi-KulkarniPittsburgh$2,112
- 5Paco BravoPhiladelphia$1,029
- 6Ross ZimmerPhiladelphia$822
- 7John RehderPittsburgh$324
- 8David SchwartzPhiladelphia$237
- 9Neil LevinPhiladelphia$177
- 10William FollansbeePittsburgh$58
- 11Thomas PowerMc Kees Rocks$33
- 12Harvey WaxmanPhiladelphia$20