Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Tennessee
77 providers, $1,828,850 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $1,929.
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 plastic and reconstructive surgery clinicians in Tennessee
Across 50 plastic and reconstructive surgery clinicians in Tennessee who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,936,955 in total — an average of $58,739 each, of which $58,731 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
- 1William HickersonMemphis$833,353
- 2Daniel HatefNashville$673,067
- 3Mark BrzezienskiChattanooga$31,530
- 4Earl LettMount Juliet$29,318
- 5Robert WallaceMemphis$20,695
- 6Lois WagstromNashville$19,484
- 7Jordi Puente EspelNashville$16,034
- 8David LoKnoxville$12,640
- 9Roberto LachicaMemphis$12,582
- 10Tom GallaherPowell$11,843
- 11Jason RehmChattanooga$10,346
- 12Ammar MahmoodMemphis$8,994
- 13Maelee YangMt Juliet$8,921
- 14Sarah HammondGermantown$8,761
- 15Timothy WilsonKnoxville$7,716
- 16Galen PerdikisNashville$7,435
- 17Joseph ChunSevierville$7,382
- 18Matthew PontellNashville$6,980
- 19Daniel HaynesJohnson City$6,584
- 20Mahmoud HassoubaMemphis$6,248
- 21Robert GarzaNashville$5,568
- 22Jesse SmithKnoxville$5,041
- 23Thao WolbertMemphis$4,379
- 24Omotayo ArowojoluNashville$4,259
- 25Nicholas LeonardiGermantown$4,158
- 26Lauren ConnorNashville$3,726
- 27Natasha LuckeyFranklin$3,322
- 28John HillNashville$3,143
- 29Panambur Laxminaraya BhandariNashville$2,958
- 30Kerri WoodberryMurfreesboro$2,503
- 31William LineaweaverNashville$2,362
- 32Dani KruchevskyMemphis$2,340
- 33Lynn BournNashville$2,242
- 34Francis LetardKnoxville$2,229
- 35Jessica BallouNashville$2,216
- 36Shady ElmaraghiNashville$2,201
- 37Todd ThurstonChattanooga$2,080
- 38Mekia KauffmanKnoxville$2,049
- 39Jack FisherNashville$1,929
- 40Edward LuceMemphis$1,919
- 41Douglas MackenzieMurfreesboro$1,915
- 42Michael BurgdorfNashville$1,724
- 43Jimmy WaldropChattanooga$1,623
- 44Aabra AhmedNashville$1,623
- 45Stewart LittleChattanooga$1,590
- 46Ahmed Al BayatiNashville$1,497
- 47Bradley MedlingMurfreesboro$1,490
- 48Carrie KubiakNashville$1,478
- 49Michael CashNashville$1,449
- 50Elizabeth Dale SlaterNashville$1,437
- 51Michael CatanzaroNashville$1,410
- 52Emily WolfeJackson$1,410
- 53Alexander NixonNashville$1,404
- 54Wesley ThayerNashville$1,231
- 55John SparrowJackson$1,197
- 56Kyle GabrickNashville$1,077
- 57Sam HuddlestonKingsport$1,050
- 58Brian leJohnson City$938
- 59Salam KassisNashville$643
- 60Jeanne ScanlandHixson$608