Obesity Medicine in Ohio
15 providers, $292,822 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 obesity medicine clinicians in Ohio
Across 12 obesity medicine clinicians in Ohio who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $191,672 in total — an average of $15,973 each, of which $15,973 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
- 1Bruce BarkerDelaware$111,769
- 2Winfield ButschCleveland$101,792
- 3Donald CundiffSandusky$76,022
- 4Nina GrayCincinnati$1,491
- 5Natasha KorenAkron$313
- 6Norma AtkinsonCleveland$295
- 7Christine WallaceCincinnati$284
- 8Taylor KantorColumbus$157
- 9Vivek MathurAkron$147
- 10Irene DejakCleveland$138
- 11Robert ZeeLancaster$137
- 12Katherine LyonsWest Chester$95
- 13Sayuri InoueCleveland$78
- 14Christopher AnzevenoMiddleburg Heights$71
- 15Kenneth WellsAkron$35