Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine in Mississippi
12 providers, $395,861 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 Mississippi
Across 8 orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in Mississippi who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,122,443 in total — an average of $265,305 each, of which $264,997 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
- 1Edward SmithMeridian$258,640
- 2Justin HallColumbus$51,520
- 3Kenny EdwardsColumbus$40,586
- 4Graham CalvertJackson$22,610
- 5Robert McGuireJackson$7,057
- 6David VecchioneTupelo$6,972
- 7Dora PelletierJackson$2,876
- 8James BarrettJackson$2,500
- 9James AntinnesHattiesburg$1,693
- 10Kendall BlakeJackson$1,047
- 11Michael PattersonHattiesburg$274
- 12Marion WardJackson$85