Ophthalmology in District of Columbia
74 providers, $1,021,774 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $953.
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 ophthalmology clinicians in District of Columbia
Across 52 ophthalmology clinicians in District of Columbia who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $13,319,333 in total — an average of $256,141 each, of which $202,201 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
- 1Wiley ChambersWashington$618,242
- 2Keesha Williams ElliottWashington$167,013
- 3Samuel StopakWashington$32,754
- 4Jonca BullWashington$29,896
- 5Leslie JonesWashington$21,788
- 6Alexander HacopianWashington$12,821
- 7Mehdi Tavakoli DastjerdiWashington$12,075
- 8Andrew HammerWashington$11,196
- 9Thandeka MyeniWashington$10,044
- 10Dipak PanigrahiWashington$9,416
- 11Jared EbertWashington$6,151
- 12Daniel PluznikWashington$6,150
- 13Katrina Chin LoyWashington$6,048
- 14Andrew AdelsonWashington$5,956
- 15Salman YousufWashington$5,435
- 16Andrew KolkerWashington$4,103
- 17Frank AshburnWashington$3,361
- 18Marc HolzmanWashington$3,233
- 19Newell HargettWashington$3,189
- 20Kelly HutchesonWashington$3,014
- 21Ronald AndersonWashington$2,943
- 22Melanie ButtrossWashington$2,827
- 23Abdullah Abou-SamraWashington$2,779
- 24Anjali BadamiWashington$2,741
- 25Maxwell HelfgottWashington$2,738
- 26Bilal YousufzaiWashington$2,690
- 27Amy Green-SimmsWashington$2,467
- 28Lauren GavarisWashington$2,430
- 29Theodore GancaycoWashington$2,214
- 30Georgina Medina AgramonteWashington$2,162
- 31Auvni PatelWashington$2,015
- 32Reginald BarnesWashington$1,998
- 33Gregory ButlerWashington$1,904
- 34Jeevan MathuraWashington$1,863
- 35Marc BerryWashington$1,613
- 36Nima MoainieWashington$1,511
- 37Saira ChoudhriWashington$953
- 38Howard JacobsonWashington$941
- 39Salim ButrusWashington$914
- 40Jiali MaWashington$787
- 41Keith WroblewskiWashington$747
- 42Thomas DunnWashington$720
- 43Mohammad GhafouriWashington$693
- 44Christopher BurrisWashington$637
- 45Tania LambaWashington$608
- 46Daniel KulmanWashington$581
- 47Paul GavarisWashington$579
- 48Ruth TessemaWashington$466
- 49Jay LustbaderWashington$455
- 50Sarah MartinWashington$446
- 51Wanda PakWashington$411
- 52Leonard FriedmanWashington$387
- 53Bennett ObergWashington$379
- 54Monica DalalWashington$351
- 55Samuel StoleruWashington$318
- 56Kenyon KramerWashington$215
- 57Mohamad JaafarWashington$210
- 58Senem Salar-GomceliWashington$179
- 59Namratha TurlapatiWashington$144
- 60Craig GeistWashington$137