Pain Medicine in Rhode Island
9 providers, $21,475 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 Rhode Island
Across 6 pain medicine clinicians in Rhode Island who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $428,219 in total — an average of $71,370 each, of which $71,178 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
- 1Todd HandelPawtucket$9,069
- 2Alexios CarayannopoulosProvidence$4,810
- 3Ross BarkerProvidence$2,197
- 4Woo Jin LeeWesterly$2,081
- 5Justin LiProvidence$1,877
- 6Laert RushaNewport$992
- 7Emad BassalyCumberland$302
- 8Hafeez KhanProvidence$125
- 9Afreen SiddiquiWarwick$23