Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine in Kansas
16 providers, $1,267,012 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 Kansas
Across 12 orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in Kansas who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,396,507 in total — an average of $199,709 each, of which $199,707 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
- 1Alan MoskowitzWichita$1,016,579
- 2Joshua BunchKansas City$69,976
- 3Shyam ShridharaniOlathe$63,387
- 4Douglas BurtonKansas City$43,143
- 5Mark WhitakerWichita$18,989
- 6Joseph WeinerKansas City$15,743
- 7Joshua KarlinLeawood$14,256
- 8Steven EricksenWichita$10,056
- 9Jacob BirlingmairWichita$8,441
- 10Robert JacksonKansas City$2,892
- 11Neda GilmartinHutchinson$1,245
- 12Theodore KoreckijLeawood$785
- 13Max de CarvalhoHays$726
- 14Christopher KainHutchinson$705
- 15John CiccarelliLenexa$91
- 16Larry CordellKansas City$0