Optometrist in Rhode Island
226 providers, $775,199 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $618.
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 Rhode Island
Across 165 optometrist clinicians in Rhode Island who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $6,290,847 in total — an average of $38,126 each, of which $38,126 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
- 1Kriti BhagatProvidence$342,681
- 2Maria SampalisWarwick$134,616
- 3Stephen MontaquilaWarwick$51,120
- 4Matthew DoyleWarwick$8,993
- 5Georgia PatsiopoulosWarwick$8,925
- 6Paul ZerbinopoulosSouth Kingstown$8,814
- 7Lucia DangeloProvidence$5,603
- 8Carl CorrowProvidence$5,232
- 9John CorrowProvidence$5,094
- 10Dena HallGreenville$5,088
- 11Alyssa CampagnoneWarwick$5,021
- 12Lori DuquetteNorth Smithfield$4,928
- 13Eric HallGreenville$4,260
- 14Karena WangMiddletown$4,254
- 15Earle ScharffWarwick$3,877
- 16Scott ColonnaProvidence$3,839
- 17Jacqueline BoisvertNorth Kingstown$3,421
- 18Lam DaoWarwick$3,370
- 19Constantinos SalemisWesterly$2,984
- 20Chad WaggonerProvidence$2,956
- 21Autumn JacksonMiddletown$2,820
- 22Saad AhmedSouth Kingstown$2,771
- 23Randi FranklNorth Providence$2,594
- 24Kristin BrennanWarwick$2,538
- 25Steven SantosCumberland$2,498
- 26Marguerite QuinnMiddletown$2,382
- 27Rickie ChinProvidence$2,373
- 28Kristen BurnsWakefield$2,361
- 29Teresa HeadCoventry$2,328
- 30Michael SaccucciSouth Kingstown$2,271
- 31Michael MartinezProvidence$2,269
- 32April MishleyProvidence$2,250
- 33Michele PalazzoloWarwick$2,227
- 34Louise Dichiara PastoreCranston$2,113
- 35Noelle JohnstonGreenville$2,100
- 36Kirsten HealeyMiddletown$2,036
- 37Frederic KelleyMiddletown$2,030
- 38Brittany HazeltonWest Warwick$2,018
- 39Nicole PatricioWoonsocket$1,998
- 40John PuglieseLincoln$1,954
- 41Cassandra OliveiraProvidence$1,953
- 42Scott SurdutCranston$1,915
- 43Maria JablonskiCranston$1,882
- 44Iris MillerWarwick$1,878
- 45Jessica MedinaCranston$1,843
- 46Erik DingleyNorth Smithfield$1,824
- 47Tiffany GrahamWarwick$1,704
- 48Brian KileyWoonsocket$1,644
- 49Stewart RosenfeldWarwick$1,578
- 50Lisa de GiulioCranston$1,576
- 51Salvatore MagliariWesterly$1,553
- 52Brett ZerbinopoulosProvidence$1,546
- 53James TherouxWoonsocket$1,545
- 54Brianna BranchWarwick$1,536
- 55Abdoulaye WannProvidence$1,506
- 56Jodi PuklCranston$1,499
- 57Nicole FantoniWakefield$1,471
- 58Michael BellucciJohnston$1,462
- 59John CorveseCranston$1,453
- 60David PuglieseSmithfield$1,440