Optometrist in Maine
224 providers, $176,950 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $289.
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 optometrist clinicians in Maine
Across 185 optometrist clinicians in Maine who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $8,348,222 in total — an average of $45,126 each, of which $45,126 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
- 1Michelle HigginsYarmouth$30,900
- 2Katherine HillPortland$6,671
- 3Renee WhelanFalmouth$5,635
- 4Jacqueline WillsGorham$4,423
- 5Steven GoldsteinPortland$4,067
- 6Andre AchenbachBrunswick$4,050
- 7Helen Bell-NecevskiOakland$3,557
- 8Stephanie ArnioAugusta$3,350
- 9Roger GagnonSouth Portland$3,131
- 10Rachel AchenbachWindham$3,034
- 11Kimberley GossBiddeford$2,802
- 12Arielle CostelloNewport$2,649
- 13Adam PuiiaAugusta$2,471
- 14Ian JonesNewport$2,445
- 15Lindsay MichaudBangor$2,313
- 16Jonathan OlmesSouth Portland$2,247
- 17Peter KembleAugusta$2,219
- 18Anne Louise GouletFalmouth$2,178
- 19Maja KrsmanovicPortland$2,124
- 20Paige OliverWaterville$2,108
- 21Luke GambleBangor$1,950
- 22Jennifer HaverkampWestbrook$1,863
- 23William GoveFalmouth$1,770
- 24Amy AbbottSouth Portland$1,704
- 25Jillian JanesAugusta$1,694
- 26Lorie ParksOakland$1,515
- 27Richard DoironBiddeford$1,475
- 28Lindsey JendraskoSanford$1,444
- 29Sammy PelletierYork$1,348
- 30Sara GordonSanford$1,347
- 31Meagan CousinsFreeport$1,332
- 32David DouglassBangor$1,281
- 33William KirnSanford$1,191
- 34Chloe DouglassBangor$1,187
- 35Dejan VaragicGorham$1,185
- 36Amy CyrPortland$1,156
- 37Ryan CarrSanford$1,145
- 38Hannah CalvelliPortland$1,101
- 39Richard ChinMillinocket$1,069
- 40James BrewerAugusta$1,069
- 41Victoria JohnsonSaco$1,035
- 42Matthew TheesPortland$1,018
- 43Kevin ShumBrunswick$1,017
- 44Philip GoldthwaitBangor$1,016
- 45Melissa YoungFreeport$1,012
- 46Eric LehouillierBiddeford$976
- 47Troy AveryLewiston$975
- 48Lindsey FieldsPalmyra$966
- 49Stephen ArsenaultSaco$942
- 50Holly McCarthyPortland$939
- 51Megan LapointeBrunswick$927
- 52Abigail DelahantySouth Portland$926
- 53Sheridon GoveLewiston$903
- 54Danielle PelletierPortland$885
- 55Timothy KearinsPortland$871
- 56Peter ParadisWaterville$854
- 57Tracy GilesPortland$849
- 58Michael AnastasioPortland$810
- 59Joseph RussoSouth Portland$800
- 60Krishnaba KrithivasSouth Portland$773