Obstetrics in Washington
20 providers, $27,355 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $302.
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 obstetrics clinicians in Washington
Across 7 obstetrics clinicians in Washington who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $40,298 in total — an average of $5,757 each, of which $5,757 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
- 1Jennifer Marnik ScaliciCentralia$13,188
- 2Daniel NicoaraYakima$5,240
- 3Kurt FineSpokane$2,356
- 4Dionne GallagherBellevue$1,339
- 5Daniel BahnmillerRichland$1,005
- 6Keely BrownBellevue$930
- 7James BraschSpokane$802
- 8Malcolm HardyWalla Walla$528
- 9Brie AltenauRichland$349
- 10Julie IversonKirkland$302
- 11Heather CunninghamSpokane$289
- 12Danielle HendersonPuyallup$248
- 13Natashia Madrid HeimburgerVancouver$159
- 14Adam NickelTacoma$146
- 15Victoria ChiaroSeattle$142
- 16Candace GreenRichland$113
- 17Shannon PadgettSeattle$104
- 18Theresa BurdickSeattle$72
- 19Catherine ThomasIssaquah$28
- 20Anthony TagavillaRenton$16