Pain Medicine in Hawaii
16 providers, $137,581 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 pain medicine clinicians in Hawaii
Across 9 pain medicine clinicians in Hawaii who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,232,349 in total — an average of $136,928 each, of which $135,484 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
- 1Daniel ChoiKoloa$34,507
- 2Jeffrey WangHonolulu$31,602
- 3Troy TadaHonolulu$17,853
- 4Dawn SparksLihue$17,042
- 5Peter VuTripler Army Medical Center$15,350
- 6Eric SunHonolulu$6,363
- 7Nicholas TinkhamTripler Army Medical Center$6,003
- 8Louis PauHonolulu$4,295
- 9Nicholas MuraokaHonolulu$1,742
- 10Daniel BurdickHonolulu$994
- 11Alexander PastinoTripler Amc$639
- 12Robert HymanHonolulu$564
- 13Kerrey TaylorKailua$437
- 14Roy EsakiHonolulu$91
- 15John SheehanHonolulu$79
- 16Daniel FischbergHonolulu$20