Plastic Surgery within the Head & Neck in Missouri
8 providers, $621,921 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 plastic surgery within the head & neck clinicians in Missouri
Across 6 plastic surgery within the head & neck clinicians in Missouri who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $428,178 in total — an average of $71,363 each, of which $71,363 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
- 1Craig BuchmanSaint Louis$533,603
- 2Laxmeesh NayakSaint Louis$70,585
- 3John ChiCreve Coeur$11,284
- 4James BoydSaint Louis$1,972
- 5Mark PackerSaint Louis$1,655
- 6John BarclayLiberty$1,330
- 7Gregory BranhamCreve Coeur$1,032
- 8Michael BaysBranson$460