Otolaryngology/Facial Plastic Surgery in Alabama
13 providers, $21,898 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 otolaryngology/facial plastic surgery clinicians in Alabama
Across 9 otolaryngology/facial plastic surgery clinicians in Alabama who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,217,013 in total — an average of $135,224 each, of which $135,144 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
- 1Keith KowalFairhope$7,429
- 2Benjamin LightDecatur$3,745
- 3Mark HagoodMadison$2,941
- 4Shannon DavisHuntsville$2,774
- 5John FergusonDothan$2,396
- 6Thomas CawthonMontgomery$1,795
- 7Kurt KantzlerGadsden$227
- 8Maureen MueckeBirmingham$150
- 9Blane BatemanAnniston$147
- 10Steven SmithHuntsville$104
- 11Marcus MoodyHoover$79
- 12Salem DavidTuscaloosa$63
- 13Cynthia DuckMountain Brk$49