Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in North Carolina
8 providers, $115,910 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 ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery clinicians in North Carolina
Across 6 ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery clinicians in North Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,274,404 in total — an average of $212,401 each, of which $165,231 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
- 1Molly FullerBermuda Run$104,223
- 2Renzo ZaldivarCary$4,824
- 3Christopher DermarkarianDurham$2,459
- 4Christina ChoeAsheville$2,147
- 5Jeffrey GoldsteinAsheville$875
- 6Ryan NolanDurham$701
- 7Benjamin MeyerDurham$400
- 8Samantha PrabakaranRaleigh$280