Orthopedic in New York
11 providers, $2,898 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 orthopedic clinicians in New York
Across 4 orthopedic clinicians in New York who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $59,509 in total — an average of $14,877 each, of which $14,877 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
- 1Scott KilmerAuburn$1,467
- 2Jeffrey BlockSmithtown$777
- 3Bruce AlpertFlushing$97
- 4Mitchell LevineGreat Neck$91
- 5Miles WiltseEast Syracuse$89
- 6Margaret MillerSyracuse$89
- 7Patricia TaylorNew Hartford$88
- 8Lauren RobertsBrooklyn$82
- 9John FernandezWoodside$64
- 10David RogersHuntington Station$37
- 11Deborah King-FrisbyWilliamsville$17