Pediatric Surgery in Alabama
20 providers, $23,676 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $343.
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 pediatric surgery clinicians in Alabama
Across 1 pediatric surgery clinicians in Alabama who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $3,815 in total — an average of $3,815 each, of which $3,815 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
- 1Hanna AlemayehuMobile$7,496
- 2David RogersBirmingham$5,000
- 3Laura StafmanBirmingham$3,346
- 4Mike ChenBirmingham$2,488
- 5Elizabeth Beierle ChenBirmingham$1,251
- 6Carroll HarmonBirmingham$1,068
- 7David KlimaBirmingham$988
- 8James GilbertHuntsville$477
- 9Zaria MurrellHuntsville$435
- 10Aaron SeimsMobile$343
- 11Charles HartinMobile$183
- 12Shanquell DixonBirmingham$171
- 13Chinwendu OnwubikoBirmingham$161
- 14Robert RussellBirmingham$77
- 15Vincent MortellaroBirmingham$66
- 16Brittany HegdeBirmingham$34
- 17Beverly ChaignaudBirmingham$27
- 18Sonya WalkerHuntsville$25
- 19Tal KoppelmannBirmingham$25
- 20Andrew WalkerMobile$17