Nuclear Medicine in Washington
16 providers, $78,943 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 medicine clinicians in Washington
Across 14 nuclear medicine clinicians in Washington who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,124,057 in total — an average of $80,290 each, of which $80,091 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
- 1Amir Iravani TabrizipourSeattle$77,500
- 2Mickaila JohnstonSilverdale$254
- 3Angela Castellanos RodriguezSeattle$229
- 4Rama SharmaSeattle$196
- 5Meena KumarSeattle$173
- 6Esther ChoiSeattle$138
- 7Ruben KrishnananthanLynnwood$131
- 8Hasan OsmanLongview$110
- 9Murat SadicSeattle$54
- 10James DodgeYakima$52
- 11Jonathan DavisonTacoma$34
- 12Charles ChesnutSeattle$30
- 13Manuela MatesanSeattle$22
- 14Fatemeh BehniaSeattle$22
- 15Michelle OhSeattle$0
- 16David DjangSeattle$0