Optometry in Mississippi
11 providers, $1,163 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 optometry clinicians in Mississippi
Across 11 optometry clinicians in Mississippi who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $277,784 in total — an average of $25,253 each, of which $25,253 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
- 1Dillon PankeyClinton$1,163
- 2Robert ShippGreenville$0
- 3Mary GriffinGreenville$0
- 4Jennifer ChildersRipley$0
- 5Clifford BrewerGautier$0
- 6Jerry McBride LlcFulton$0
- 7Chad SmithBrookhaven$0
- 8Jill FrierVicksburg$0
- 9Robert ShappleyCorinth$0
- 10Michael HellumsBatesville$0
- 11Dannette KingLucedale$0