Plastic Surgery within the Head & Neck in North Carolina
16 providers, $74,484 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 North Carolina
Across 9 plastic surgery within the head & neck clinicians in North Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $713,965 in total — an average of $79,329 each, of which $79,329 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
- 1Elda FisherDurham$51,233
- 2Charles MannCary$5,691
- 3Jared SpectorCary$5,127
- 4James MartinHighlands$2,467
- 5Walter LeeDurham$2,240
- 6James BrowneWinston Salem$1,611
- 7Richard JonesCary$1,610
- 8Joshua KainCharlotte$1,610
- 9John FinnChapel Hill$1,067
- 10Michael ParkerWilmington$933
- 11Christopher ForrestDurham$297
- 12Abhijit GundaleApex$181
- 13John WoodElizabeth City$176
- 14Nicole RuszkayChapel Hill$127
- 15Charles WestAsheboro$117
- 16Adam SteinRaleigh$0