Orthopaedic Trauma in Alabama
9 providers, $120,150 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 trauma clinicians in Alabama
Across 9 orthopaedic trauma clinicians in Alabama who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,756,534 in total — an average of $195,170 each, of which $191,935 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
- 1Clay SpitlerBirmingham$84,844
- 2Karen HandBirmingham$11,517
- 3Michael HoneycuttHuntsville$11,306
- 4David GriffinHuntsville$2,600
- 5Parker WhiteMobile$2,568
- 6Jason CobbSelma$2,489
- 7Sudhakar MadanagopalHuntsville$1,979
- 8Robert MaplesHuntsville$1,465
- 9Sean OwenOpp$1,383