Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine in Alaska
13 providers, $363,723 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 orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in Alaska
Across 11 orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in Alaska who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,605,974 in total — an average of $236,907 each, of which $236,907 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
- 1Steven HumphreysSoldotna$198,796
- 2Stewart KerrFairbanks$50,993
- 3Iain ElliottAnchorage$29,938
- 4John AndreshakSoldotna$22,119
- 5Samuel AdamsSoldotna$17,224
- 6James EuleAnchorage$17,027
- 7Derrick FogeAnchorage$7,369
- 8Gene FalkowskiAnchorage$5,157
- 9Upshur SpencerAnchorage$4,051
- 10Brent AdcoxHomer$3,942
- 11Mark FlanumAnchorage$3,451
- 12Curtis MinaAnchorage$3,384
- 13Davis PetersonAnchorage$272