Orthopaedic Trauma in Kentucky
8 providers, $888,656 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 Kentucky
Across 8 orthopaedic trauma clinicians in Kentucky who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $652,844 in total — an average of $81,605 each, of which $81,562 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
- 1Darren JohnsonLexington$532,748
- 2Eric MoghadamianLexington$159,827
- 3Raymond Wright JrLexington$93,787
- 4Ryan DeangelisLexington$41,446
- 5David ZuelzerLexington$24,209
- 6Brandon ScottLexington$16,140
- 7Thomas KrupkoLexington$10,463
- 8Ryan CassidyLexington$10,036