Otolaryngology in Alabama
155 providers, $873,470 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $1,585.
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 Alabama
Across 119 otolaryngology clinicians in Alabama who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $14,774,923 in total — an average of $124,159 each, of which $124,034 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
- 1John DavisHoover$250,843
- 2William McFeelyHuntsville$69,723
- 3Michael SillersBirmingham$52,596
- 4Justin TurnerBirmingham$33,578
- 5Bradford WoodworthBirmingham$27,370
- 6Patrick OwensBirmingham$26,183
- 7Kirk WithrowBirmingham$22,111
- 8Do-Yeon ChoBirmingham$19,408
- 9William BlytheOpelika$18,901
- 10Andrew FusonBirmingham$17,844
- 11John KostrzewaHuntsville$17,108
- 12Benjamin GreeneBirmingham$14,974
- 13William BarberBirmingham$13,109
- 14Dennis PappasBirmingham$12,641
- 15Bradley HobbsHuntsville$12,494
- 16Ryan MarshallBirmingham$9,248
- 17James MasdonGuntersville$7,828
- 18Jessica GraysonBirmingham$7,760
- 19Andrea McMurphyMobile$7,684
- 20Francis LongSheffield$6,788
- 21Caleb MastersonFlorence$6,519
- 22Matthew FortBirmingham$6,301
- 23James AndersonMontgomery$6,260
- 24Emmett ElledgeBirmingham$6,179
- 25William McCaryHuntsville$6,101
- 26Tarika BhutaBirmingham$5,955
- 27Jason FlemingBirmingham$5,687
- 28Benjamin McGrewBirmingham$4,758
- 29Gerard BrocatoHuntsville$4,522
- 30Stephen ChandlerMontgomery$4,382
- 31Samih Nassif AbudinenHuntsville$4,148
- 32Joseph BriganceHuntsville$3,993
- 33Paul CastellanosBirmingham$3,983
- 34Christopher ClarkBirmingham$3,886
- 35Pamela McGarrahSheffield$3,814
- 36Stephen FavrotBirmingham$3,602
- 37Sheldon BlackBirmingham$3,557
- 38Wesley WhatleyOpelika$3,505
- 39Charles ColvinBirmingham$3,480
- 40Douglas HolmesMobile$3,262
- 41Paul PapajohnAthens$3,228
- 42William LivingstonAlabaster$3,174
- 43Kacie OglesbyMobile$3,110
- 44James HarrisonMobile$3,050
- 45Benjamin PowellHuntsville$3,004
- 46Mark GacekMobile$2,976
- 47Kristopher LayBirmingham$2,972
- 48David WaltersBirmingham$2,867
- 49Steven HarrisDothan$2,802
- 50Brian McCoolHomewood$2,753
- 51R HillAthens$2,693
- 52Alfred NeumannMobile$2,625
- 53Stefania GoncalvesBirmingham$2,577
- 54Christopher WeeksMobile$2,533
- 55Douglas LoweryBirmingham$2,531
- 56Angela BlountJasper$2,508
- 57Gordon ShieldsTuscaloosa$2,507
- 58Craig BenoitTuscaloosa$2,460
- 59Scot CallahanEnterprise$2,388
- 60Michael McFaddenHuntsville$2,336