Pain Medicine in Alaska
20 providers, $101,803 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $707.
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 pain medicine clinicians in Alaska
Across 13 pain medicine clinicians in Alaska who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,898,530 in total — an average of $222,964 each, of which $220,388 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
- 1Stephen MarkewichWasilla$56,726
- 2Renee MarchegianiWasilla$10,323
- 3Derek BradleyJber$8,712
- 4Kimpreet KaurElmendorf Afb$7,134
- 5James PricePalmer$7,025
- 6Nichelle RenkAnchorage$5,326
- 7Jon HinmanWasilla$1,879
- 8Benjamin EkstromAnchorage$910
- 9Leon ChandlerAnchorage$836
- 10Nancy CrossFairbanks$707
- 11Shawn JohnstonAnchorage$663
- 12Casandra MysiorAnchorage$480
- 13Robert ValentzAnchorage$419
- 14Larry LevineAnchorage$267
- 15Lawrence StinsonAnchorage$185
- 16Shawn HadleyAnchorage$116
- 17Erik KussroAnchorage$44
- 18Sean TaylorAnchorage$19
- 19Erik OlsonAnchorage$15
- 20Sharon OngAnchorage$14