Optometry in West Virginia
9 providers, $0 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 West Virginia
Across 9 optometry clinicians in West Virginia who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $209,707 in total — an average of $23,301 each, of which $23,301 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
- 1Emily AllenHuntington$0
- 2Kenneth ColePrinceton$0
- 3Rex CummingsRavenswood$0
- 4William PughSummersville$0
- 5David GomezBeckley$0
- 6David CarpenterPrinceton$0
- 7Tasso ButlerLewisburg$0
- 8Kevin LambertElkins$0
- 9Randal ZinkNew Martinsville$0