Obesity Medicine in Pennsylvania
17 providers, $138,221 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 Pennsylvania
Across 11 obesity medicine clinicians in Pennsylvania who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $227,889 in total — an average of $20,717 each, of which $20,133 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
- 1Margarita McDonaldAmbler$111,070
- 2Sunil DanielAllentown$9,441
- 3Joseph McPheeLancaster$8,583
- 4Paul BaughmanHarrisburg$3,420
- 5Rena LambertAllentown$1,928
- 6Robin SchroederAllentown$954
- 7Lawrence WiegerLancaster$678
- 8Charles SeltzerPhiladelphia$623
- 9Adarsh GuptaWest Norriton$529
- 10Kia WestAllentown$310
- 11Ian SniderSayre$236
- 12Asima AhmadAllentown$220
- 13Paul KlinkState College$87
- 14Karel KeiterHarrisburg$59
- 15Monica BrandauAllentown$32
- 16Darrin DoranPottsville$26
- 17Sophia MichailidisEaston$23