Orthopaedic Surgery in West Virginia
93 providers, $1,835,618 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $2,681.
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 clinicians in West Virginia
Across 66 orthopaedic surgery clinicians in West Virginia who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $8,684,508 in total — an average of $131,583 each, of which $126,320 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
- 1Benjamin FryeMorgantown$328,524
- 2Chad LavenderCharleston$311,635
- 3Steven LochowHuntington$145,666
- 4Joshua SykesBridgeport$107,912
- 5Scott DaffnerMorgantown$102,106
- 6John CromptonHuntington$77,836
- 7Ali OliashiraziHuntington$65,346
- 8Gregory PurnellMorgantown$65,101
- 9Matthew DietzMorgantown$59,758
- 10Felix CheungHuntington$59,337
- 11Alexander RosensteinCharleston$44,904
- 12Frederick MorganPrinceton$43,546
- 13John JaskoHuntington$39,053
- 14Jonathan CallegariCharleston$38,801
- 15Amit SinglaHuntington$37,233
- 16Karim BoukhemisHuntington$33,020
- 17Ryan FalboWeirton$28,863
- 18Ronald SismondoWheeling$20,993
- 19Moses AdebayoHuntington$19,239
- 20Paul LeggCharleston$15,356
- 21Garth WrightCharles Town$13,723
- 22Bruce HauptSouth Charleston$13,441
- 23Matthew StoverSouth Charleston$10,016
- 24Alex CaughranHuntington$9,045
- 25Ryan GriffithSummersville$7,783
- 26Michael MyersGlen Dale$7,114
- 27Taylor HockmanMartinsburg$6,906
- 28Nicholas HiginbothamPrinceton$6,876
- 29Freddie PersingerSouth Charleston$6,704
- 30Dante MarraTriadelphia$6,309
- 31Suhirad KhokharHuntington$5,979
- 32Elias JosephMorgantown$5,931
- 33Alexander ContiParkersburg$5,914
- 34Chad MicucciMorgantown$5,367
- 35Jessica HaleHuntington$4,713
- 36Stephen AlatisWeirton$4,559
- 37John BuschmanMartinsburg$4,237
- 38Shawn StormCharleston$4,090
- 39Manuel MolinaCharleston$3,856
- 40Jacob ConjeskiMorgantown$3,731
- 41Luis BolanoHuntington$3,524
- 42Justin GriffithSummersville$3,328
- 43Joseph CincinnatiMartinsburg$2,977
- 44Charles CapitoChester$2,935
- 45Andrew ParsonsMorgantown$2,867
- 46William McCormickSouth Charleston$2,854
- 47Lucas PavlovichElkins$2,681
- 48David TagerMorgantown$2,256
- 49Jarrod SmithHuntington$2,068
- 50Mary HausWheeling$2,019
- 51Phillip SurfaceSouth Charleston$1,836
- 52James DayHuntington$1,817
- 53Jason CastleCharleston$1,763
- 54Nick ZervosMorgantown$1,519
- 55Chad PoageBridgeport$1,430
- 56Galen BerdisHuntington$1,355
- 57Hamed VahedikafshgariKeyser$1,317
- 58Jeffrey AbbottWheeling$1,293
- 59Troy FosterMartinsburg$1,278
- 60Emily GriffithLewisburg$1,231