Otolaryngology in Alaska
20 providers, $32,559 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $1,001.
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 clinicians in Alaska
Across 17 otolaryngology clinicians in Alaska who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,190,503 in total — an average of $70,030 each, of which $69,328 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
- 1Eugene SansoniWasilla$7,515
- 2Jennifer MitchellWasilla$4,899
- 3Jerome ListEagle River$4,323
- 4Thomas HammondFairbanks$3,908
- 5Stephen SchafferAnchorage$1,801
- 6Eli BressAnchorage$1,595
- 7Khang LuAnchorage$1,577
- 8Christopher KowalskiAnchorage$1,559
- 9Sam KimFairbanks$1,352
- 10Mark LorenzAnchorage$1,001
- 11John KokeshAnchorage$604
- 12Amalia SteinbergAnchorage$596
- 13James AndrewsAnchorage$451
- 14Creed MamikunianAnchorage$421
- 15Jennifer WingateAnchorage$327
- 16Laura ShivelyAnchorage$213
- 17Jamie SwartzAnchorage$182
- 18Shannon FraserAnchorage$155
- 19Jerry AinsworthSitka$42
- 20John RasterSitka$37