Otolaryngology/Facial Plastic Surgery in Kansas
8 providers, $24,739 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 Kansas
Across 4 otolaryngology/facial plastic surgery clinicians in Kansas who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $427,559 in total — an average of $106,890 each, of which $106,844 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
- 1Clinton HumphreyKansas City$17,511
- 2Megan SwonkeShawnee$4,281
- 3Hannah VargasOlathe$1,230
- 4Julie MunsonLakin$680
- 5Frank ShagetsPittsburg$437
- 6Erin BuczekKansas City$361
- 7Michael BakerPittsburg$158
- 8Bethany KingWichita$81